Retrospective 1 : Tarun Bhartiya
LIST OF FILMS
Tarun Bhartiya is a documentary imagemaker, Hindi poet and political activist based in Shillong, Khasi Hills, India.
Tarun Bhartiya’s films include “Brief Life of Insects” (2015, Mumbai International Film Festival, Best Sound Award), “The Last Train in Nepal” (2015, BBC4, RTSYorkshire award for Best Director, Factual), “When the Hens Crow” (2013), “Darjeeling Himalayan Railway” (Royal Television Society Award, Best documentary series 2010), Tourist Information for Shillong (2007) as well as music videos for several Shillong bands.
As an editor he has worked on notable films with film-makers like Vasudha Joshi (Girl Song, 2003; Songlines, 2010, and Cancer Katha, Special Jury Award, National Awards 2012), “Red Ant Dream” (Editor & Co-Writer, Sanjay Kak, 2014), “Jashn-e-Azadi” (Sanjay Kak 2007) and “In Camera” (Ranjan Palit 2010, National Award for Best Editing, Since Retuned in protest against Hindutva Fascist state policies).
For his work on Indian Hill Railways, he was also nominated for The Guild of Television Camerapersons of UK award for best camera work.
His photographs and image essays have been published in magazines and as covers of many books. His most recent work “Niam/Faith/Hynniewtrep : 100 Unaddressed Picture Postcards from Khasi-Jaintia Hills” was part of Diffusion : Welsh International Festival of Photography commissioned by Chennai Photo Biennale and Diffusion for Imagining the Nation State Grant. He is working a photobook NIAMBOOK supported by India Foundation for the Arts.
His poems and their translations have appeared in various anthologies including Dancing Earth: Contemporary poetry from North East India (Penguin), Das Baras – Hindi Kavita Ayodhya ke Baad (SAHMAT).
He was a founder member of alt-space, an independent cultural and political space in Shillong, and is a member of Thma U Rangli Juki (TUR), a progressive people’s group in Meghalaya and Workers Power of Meghalaya.
He is a member and commissioning editor of Three Essays Collective, a small independent publisher.
He is a research Consultant and founder member of The Northeast India Audio Visual Archive, St. Anthony’s College, Shillong.
He helped curate, Rustle of Spring/Whiff of Gunpowder, A programme of Films from Northeast India at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
He is a founder member of Raiot Collective which publishes Raiot, www.raiot.in
Tarun Bhartiya’s films include “Brief Life of Insects” (2015, Mumbai International Film Festival, Best Sound Award), “The Last Train in Nepal” (2015, BBC4, RTSYorkshire award for Best Director, Factual), “When the Hens Crow” (2013), “Darjeeling Himalayan Railway” (Royal Television Society Award, Best documentary series 2010), Tourist Information for Shillong (2007) as well as music videos for several Shillong bands.
As an editor he has worked on notable films with film-makers like Vasudha Joshi (Girl Song, 2003; Songlines, 2010, and Cancer Katha, Special Jury Award, National Awards 2012), “Red Ant Dream” (Editor & Co-Writer, Sanjay Kak, 2014), “Jashn-e-Azadi” (Sanjay Kak 2007) and “In Camera” (Ranjan Palit 2010, National Award for Best Editing, Since Retuned in protest against Hindutva Fascist state policies).
For his work on Indian Hill Railways, he was also nominated for The Guild of Television Camerapersons of UK award for best camera work.
His photographs and image essays have been published in magazines and as covers of many books. His most recent work “Niam/Faith/Hynniewtrep : 100 Unaddressed Picture Postcards from Khasi-Jaintia Hills” was part of Diffusion : Welsh International Festival of Photography commissioned by Chennai Photo Biennale and Diffusion for Imagining the Nation State Grant. He is working a photobook NIAMBOOK supported by India Foundation for the Arts.
His poems and their translations have appeared in various anthologies including Dancing Earth: Contemporary poetry from North East India (Penguin), Das Baras – Hindi Kavita Ayodhya ke Baad (SAHMAT).
He was a founder member of alt-space, an independent cultural and political space in Shillong, and is a member of Thma U Rangli Juki (TUR), a progressive people’s group in Meghalaya and Workers Power of Meghalaya.
He is a member and commissioning editor of Three Essays Collective, a small independent publisher.
He is a research Consultant and founder member of The Northeast India Audio Visual Archive, St. Anthony’s College, Shillong.
He helped curate, Rustle of Spring/Whiff of Gunpowder, A programme of Films from Northeast India at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
He is a founder member of Raiot Collective which publishes Raiot, www.raiot.in