CONSCIOUSNESS aka Resonance

Do our worldviews change ?
Do we alter our mindset ?

Does the solitude dance of awareness
awaken alternate landscapes?

Are we made up of experiences
that determine different realities ?

As humans we are sometimes unable to differentiate

It is comforting to realize
that the nature and kinds of Cinema
have become as vast, varied
and all encompassing in genres,
as with Literary works

So also is the unusual approach
of CONSCIOUSNESS_PRAGYANAM
aka nadh resonance

like a contemplative cosmorama
it weaves in and out of the tangible,
the abstract and the spiritual
It delves deep into our subconscious
and unfolds like a metaphorical dream

Entering the private worlds
of animal, bird and human
security and survival instincts
it exemplifies superlatively the art
of Awareness in Consciousness

Our environment necessitates living an aware life;
‘cela va sans dire’ alert to the whole

We only really discover,
when we break free
from the usual bonds that restrict us

the dramatis personae;
human, animal and bird,
co exist in harmony and predatory situations

we, the experiencers of the film
imbibe and discern this paradoxical significance

Quiet, contemplative, stream of Consciousness Cinema
that reveals a Way of Life; a subtle living reality

an enigmatic exploration
that raises and expands human Consciousness;
Enlightens

  • NinaSugati SR Shivdasani Rovshen
    Director
  • NinaSugati SR Shivdasani Rovshen
    Writer
  • NinaSugati SR Shivdasani Rovshen
    Producer
  • Vivan Rovshen Dayal
    Key Cast
    "Atman and Muse"
  • Anushka Shivdasani Rovshen
    Key Cast
    "Grahasth - Family, Householder Stage of Life "
  • Monishwar Dayal
    Key Cast
    "Grahasth - Family, Householder Stage of Life "
  • Anushka Shivdasani Rovshen
    Associate Producers
  • Monishwar Dayal
    Associate Producers
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    CONSCIOUSNESS_PRAGYANAM aka Nadh Resonance
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Other
  • Runtime:
    1 hour
  • Completion Date:
    October 1, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Country of Filming:
    India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand
  • Language:
    English, Sanskrit
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • NEW FILM
Distribution Information
  • NEW FILM
Director Biography - NinaSugati SR Shivdasani Rovshen

CINEMACOSMOS
(Evolution
and Involution
of Consciousness)

NinaSugati SR
Shivdasani Rovshen
copyright

IMAGEOGRAPHY CINEART
AWARD WINNING FILM POEMS
Invited to Film Festivals worldwide

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY and BIOGRAPHY

BREAKING GROUND
1971 15mts 16mm
Exploring Child Identity and Way of Life

Print, acquired by CALARTS California
and the National Archives of India

Award at Washington DC FilmFstvl
Screened at Pasadena Art Museum, California
at the Egg and the Eye, LA USA
at NCPA and NFDC Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

Recently shown 2 years in a row at Camden Art Center London Recently shown in Berlin
Recently shown at CSMVS Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai
with Me and 3 Others expressing ourselves onLine (during Covid)

HOPE NO ONE’S LISTENING
1972 15mts 16mm

Victims of a World War Technological Society
about four emotionally interconnected wavelengths;

Print acquired by CALARTS USA
and the National Archive of India

Award at Bellevue FilmFstvl, Washington
and Chicago International FilmFstvl
Screened at Los Angeles Film International
and the Egg and the Eye
at NFDC and NCPA

Recently shown 2 years in a row at Camden Art Center London
Recently shown in Berlin
Recently shown at CSMVS Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai
with Me and 3 Others expressing ourselves onLine (during Covid)

WORLD OF ALL INTELLIGENCE
1972 5mts 16mm Optical printer, Oxberry and Camera

Many Layered Image Juxtaposition
of a Beachbum’s UNIVERSAL PERCEPTION OF PHILOSOPHY

a six layered philosophical, optical printer, live action camera and animation film – from child to laughter to the young old man and the vissisitudes of life

Screened at the NCPA and NFDC

Recently shown 2 years in a row at Camden Art Center London
Recently shown in Berlin
Recently shown at CSMVS Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai
with Me and 3 Others expressing ourselves onLine (during Covid)

the BANANA LEAF or SOMETHING ABOUT TRANSFORMATION
and RE DISCOVERY
1972 Poetic documentary 3 mts for IBM
Essence of the Computer Chip and ourselves
with Charles & Ray Eames
from the banana leaf to a bejeweled thali of greed …
then voluntarily returning to the simple life
of banana leaf meals –
as in the essence of the IBM computer chip

CHHATRABHANG or THE DIVINE PLAN
RURAL ANALYSIS – Definitive poetic film on Village Hierarchy
1975 75mts
Director Producer Cinema Language
Imageography Cinematography DOP
Author Editor Art Director Sound Design

Berlin FIPRESCI Critic’s Award India’s1st
Maharashtra Award for best film
Jury Carthage Film Days
Invited to approx 30 festivals worldwide
Cannes Critic’s Week, IAWRT New Delhi, Experimenta,
amongst others
Shown in Europe for 12 years; Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Print acquired by NFAI National Film Archives of India,
Berlin Arsenal

on varna, caste, rural relations and hierarchy –
a poetic analysis within the fabric of the film,
of how economic position, and social status;
enable political clout –
through the conscientization of a real live woman,
and others, during the actual making of the film

the first Indian Film Director to be awarded
the International FIPRESCI Award
at the Berlin Film Festival – 1976
Maharashtra State Award for the best Film
on the Subject – 1976

Milestone Landmark Innovative Film in the History
of Cinema Language and Form

Invited to more film festivals
than any other film, made at the time
(however, was difficult to fund so many 35mm prints)

Screened at Cannes Critic’s Week
Locarno Film Fstvl
Figuero de Foz, Portugal
Carthage Film Days
MIFF

2004 Opening Film of Experimenta Film Festvl
at the British Council - Mumbai & New Delhi
Invited to and screened in the
Film Festvl at Film Huis Den Hague
the best of Indian Cinema, Experimenta package

Invited to and Special Screening of this landmark Film
At the 11th IAWRT Asian Woman’s Film Festvl 2015 in New Delhi

2017 INVITED to MAMI Film Festival
New Medium Section (World Cinema)
curated by Shaina Anand

Prints acquired by the National Archive of India
and at the Arsenal in Berlin – was shown in Theatres of
Austria, Germany and Switzerland for 12 years as a Classic

Invited to Mannheim, Germany
Mostra International del Film d’Autore
and San Remo festvl, Italy
Tehran film festvl, Iran
Leipzig in Germany
Grenoble and Femmes Media, Paris, France
International festvl of Woman’s films NY
Festival of Indian Films – forth triennale
Council of creative Arts, New Delhi
Tashkent FilmFestvl USSR
Stratford FilmFstvl, Ontario, Canada

Included in the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema
By Ashish Rajyadaksha & Paul Willemen

1976 Member of International Jury
Carthage Film Days

PURNAM EVAVASHISHYATE – WHOLENESS YET REMAINS
Chhatrabhang w Prologue & Epilogue Vajrasuchika Upanishad
2016 95mts

Inspired by the Upanishads

to transform this daily terrestrial vision
… into a spiritual enlightened one,
in the advent of of true liberation

SWA: SOURCE WITHIN
INNER WEALTH
192mts 2022 RECENT
Wholeness of the Universal Absolute; Spiritual Wealth
Reveals who and what we really are

CONSCIOUSNESS_PRAGYANAM aka Nadh Resonance
2023 60mts NEW
Explorations: Being and Expanding as Consciousness
Quiet, contemplative, stream of Consciousness Cinema

DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY

YOG: Siromani
MFA CALARTS California Institute of the Arts
Independent Film & Video Direction and Production
Mentor Terry Sanders
Studied with Don Levy, Kris Malkeiwiez, Jules Engels, Sandy McKendrick,
Robert Nelson, Saul Landau, Pat O’Neil, Stan Van der Beek & Others

BFA with HONOURS ARCADIA UNIVERSITY USA
Painting & BA joint curriculum
Dean’s List Editor in Chief: Yearbook
Gargoyle Design Award: Literary Magazine
Spruance Daumier Art Award
United Nations Model Program

Studied with Benton Spruance, Jack Davis,
Dean Gillette, Jean Francksen, Ruth Lehrer

School of Visual Arts Photography A Grade
WHITNEY MUSEUM Awarded Independent Painting Fellowship

J J Institute Fine & Applied Art Mumbai
Intermediate Diploma
CATHEDRAL & John Connon High School Mumbai
Principals’ Prize: All Round Leadership
Swimming, Gymnastics, Biology

Exhibitions NGMA National Gallery ModernArt
Cymroza&Chemould Art Galleries
Nehru Centre, Piramal Photography NCPA
Studio Exhibit “from Tranquillity to Transcendence”
Paintings in Prestigious Collections
CSMVS Museum Jehangir Nicholson’s Art Collection,
Bharat Bhavan Museum, Air India, Mahindra & Mahindra, Wipro
Taj Group, Lady and Sir William Walton: UK Composer of
‘La Mortella’
Workshops & International Conferences
Mohile Parikh Centre for Visual Arts

Xavier’s Video Workshop

Invited to: VIEW
Vision Exchange Workshop
Akbar Padamse’s Nehru Fellowship

Painting Workshop K C College
24 Artists on 3 canvases

Originator: Imageography Films, Contemporary Abstract Miniatures
In Process: Film Edits & DI Colour Grading
Consulting Counselling Mentoring

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Director Statement

the UPANISHADS inspire my work
I draw parallels with the non manifest
of the Upanishads and the manifest
of everyday realities…
accepting them as two sides of the same coin

Hypothesis based approach that SHRUTIS;

Nature’s Universal Laws of Eternal Truth
experienced through Vibrations
by ancient Rishis during meditation Dhyan,
exist everywhere, in everyone;

That we are WHOLE
That we are also part of the Whole
symbolically AUM...

No need to search,
just be Acutely Aware in CONSCIOUSNESS
breathing the present moment,
with five senses poised in the NOW (Sahaj Samadhi)
to transcend and turn within for contentment

It’s for me; the Artist Philosopher
to explore in Cinema Language;
provide clarity to the Real Live People inhabiting my films

IMAGEOGRAPHY of which I am the Originator,
forms the foundation of my CineArt
I CHOREOGRAPH THE IMAGES and SOUND
during Cinematography with the hypothesis guiding me

Imageographic visual thoughts
and sound design impel my movements
within the framed space;
create the GEOGRAPHY of a language
that reveals and gives significance

I decode the images, write the screenplay;
insert it in the Timeline as ‘screenplay graphics’
The ENERGY GRAPH of the film,
is developed during the Edit, as I shape the whole

discovering anew, the films essence

if differing from my original vision,
I modify it to touch the soul-beat
of the characters and situation,
rather than an ego driven perception

A universal language emerges,
expressing a meaningful,
Art Statement or Historical Document
on the environment,

making the essential visible,
the unfamiliar intimate
and the familiar, clearer than ever before

an assurance of inner self transformation;
enlightened understanding
and way of life
a living reality…
manifests itself

rendering the above honestly, imaginatively
and experientially in a structured cosmic flow,
is the challenge I embrace

(Inspired by studying the Upanishads
and interactions with Humanity and the Environment)

NinaSugati SR
Shivdasani Rovshen