Join us for a discussion with visiting artist-filmmaker Kalpana Subramanian.

Kalpana Subramanian is an artist-filmmaker and Ph.D. candidate in Media Study at the University at Buffalo. Her research investigates the poetics of breath in experimental film using a trans-cultural, interdisciplinary and practice-based framework of inquiry. Her films have been screened at several international film festivals including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin, Toronto International Film Festival, Antimatter Media Arts (Canada), Olhar de Cinema (Brazil), Digital Anthropologies (France) and Wildscreen (UK) among others. She has received various honors including a Jury’s Special Mention at the CMS Vatavaran International Film Festival (2007), Audience Award at the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology in Italy (2015), awards for Creative Approach, Cinematography (2003) and Conservation (2005) at the Montana CINE International Film Festival. She was a Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow at University of Colorado Boulder in 2015-16 and a UK Environmental Film Fellow in 2006. Subramanian is also a vocalist, and author of four children’s books.

www.kalpanasubramanian.com

(Image credit: Still from Empyrean, Subramanian, 2016)