Aman Wadhan

Aman Wadhan was looking at a career in web programming and network security and might have never made a film, were it not for the Internet eruption that exposed him to distant utopias and darker realms--Riva's voice, Kaidanovsky's face, life altering images--until the inevitable breakdown. He joined the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, where he got the chance to direct a few shorts on celluloid and curate film screenings for students. With focus on specific locations and micro-histories, his films, stirred by spatial hauntings of memory, trace blind spots of representation from the cultural margins, bringing different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence. His practice is process-oriented and includes film, photography and text, but above all else, it is simply an inclination to live with complete awareness in light of transience.