Film Screenings
Sleepwalker Archives
Karthik Subramanian
Image credits: Still from Sleepwalker Archives
Join us for a screening of a haunting exploration of memory, absence, and the unseen.
A photographer, while walking from the estuary to the source of the waterless Kaveri River, abandons his journey after encountering a woman whose image could not be recorded by his camera. Six years after dismissing that occurrence as a malady of the summer heat, he finds a note left behind in a photo archive about the very same woman. He begins another journey in search of that woman, following the scent of absence in the photographs of the archive.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with the filmmaker Karthik Subramanian, facilitated by Aayati Sengupta from the exhibitions team at MAP.
This event is part of Beneath the Turning Sky programming.
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Karthik Subramanian
As a child, Karthik travelled frequently between his life in the city and his grandparents’ in the village – learning to experience the world as it moves through the window of a train.
When he later travelled to photograph the place where the river Ganga joins the Bay of Bengal, the lament of the shifting land in front of him mixed inseparably with the half remembered memories of the landscape through the moving windows. At this slippery edge between water and land, began Karthik’s preoccupation with still and moving images; culture and ecology; history and mythology; the end and the beginning.
