Priyanka (b.1985) is a film-maker artist who works with collective memory, image, text and personal archives. Navigating themes of home, landscape and relationalities, she articulates her practice as an archaeology of silences. Her interest in the Partition of Punjab (1947) emerges from growing up in a family of partition refugees in West Delhi. Rock Paper Scissors is the third iteration in her trilogy of works around the Partition of Punjab (1947), including Pichla Varka (The Previous Page), 2019 and Iqraar-naama (The Agreement), 2022. The works collectively look at de-centering narratives of the Partition of Punjab from the state to the citizen, from state archives to personal archives. She has recently finished working on Wo Subah Humi Se Aaegi (That Dawn That We Will Bring), a film mapping the autonomous women's movement in India directed by Uma Chakravarti. Previous works include In The Forest One Thing Can Look Like Another (produced as part of Monographs, Asian Film Archive), Shape of Trees (produced as part of Alchemy Moving Image Residency) and A Summer Flu. She has received the Experimenter Generator Co-Production Grant, IFA Arts Practice Grant, grants by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and the TOTO Award for Short Film. Her works have been shown in Oberhausen, York, Calgary, Cologne, Singapore, Kathmandu and Kerala. She lives and works in Delhi.
Education
2009 / Post Graduate Diploma in Film and Video Communication Design, National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
2006 / Journalism (Hons.) (B.A.), Kamala Nehru College, Delhi University
2006 / Journalism (Hons.) (B.A.), Kamala Nehru College, Delhi University
2025 / Offset Projects, India Art Fair, Emami Experimental Film Festival (India), Monsoon Rooms, Tri Art Centre Kolkata (India), The place we do not know is the place we are looking for, Liquid Architecture, Sarai-CSDS, Melbourne (Australia), A Shared Room, Chennai Photo Biennale(India)
2024 / TENT Biennale, Paper and Play, Pulp Society, Mimesis Documentary Film Festival (Boulder, USA), Travelling Film Southasia (Amritsar, Lahore, Arthshila Shantiniketan, Delhi), Minikino (Indonesia), Dharamshala International Film Festival
2023 / Signs Film Festival Kerala (India), Urban Lens Film Festival Bangalore (India), Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival
2022 / Film South Asia Kathmandu (Nepal), Liberation Docfest Dhaka (Bangladesh), Brechtfestival Augusberg (Germany), Social Justice Film Festival Chennai, Kolkata Peoples Film Festival
2020 / Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder (Colorado)
2019 / Urban Lens Film Festival Delhi/Bangalore, Department of Sociology-South Asian University Delhi, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal University
2018 / Open Frame Film Festival, Delhi
2017 / Sharjah Biennial 13
2016 / Sexing the City: HERA SINGLE Conference and Exhibition, Leiden (Switzerland)
2015 / INPUT Film Festival Tokyo (Japan), Changing Perspectives Film Festival, Turkey
2014 / Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen (Germany), Calagary International Film Festival, Calagary (Canada), Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York (U.K), Tongues On Fire: UK Asian Film Festival, London (U.K). Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland, IDSFFK, Kerala (India), Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai
2012 / IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, Delhi
2011 / International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam (Netherlands), International Ethnographic Film Festival, Brasil, DOK-Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany), CMS Vatavaran Film Festival, Delhi, Samsung Women’s International Film Festival, Chennai
Grants / Residencies / Awards
2022 / India Foundation for the Arts Practice Program: Productions
2021 / Generator Co-operative Production Grant, Gallery Experimenter
2019 / Arts Practice Program, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
2019 / Film Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
2014 / Alchemy Film and Moving Image Residency / Gender Theme Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust / TOTO Award for Short Film
2011 / Excellence in Cinematography, Cut.In Film Festival, TISS Mumbai
2021 / Generator Co-operative Production Grant, Gallery Experimenter
2019 / Arts Practice Program, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
2019 / Film Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
2014 / Alchemy Film and Moving Image Residency / Gender Theme Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust / TOTO Award for Short Film
2011 / Excellence in Cinematography, Cut.In Film Festival, TISS Mumbai
Contact
homeworks.priyanka@gmail.com