PRAGYANAM_CONSCIOUSNESS aka NADH RESONANCE
Does mindful awareness
awaken alternate landscapes?
Does experience
determine different realities?
It is comforting to realize
that the nature & kinds of Cinema
are as vast in genres,
as with Literary Works
We enter the covert areas of mortal survival;
of human and animal survival instincts
that exemplify superlatively
the art of Awareness in Consciousness
An imperative need to live alert;
aware of the Whole
the film characters
and we the ones who experience,
imbibe this discerning significance
and expand our consciousness
Our awareness of CONSCIOUSNESS
and Being Consciousness itself
could be a new way for living
an examined, meaningful
and paradoxically spontaneous existence
in today's milieu
Quiet, contemplative, Stream of Consciousness Cinema
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NinaSugati SR Shivdasani RovshenDirectorAward Winning Films in Berlin Film Festival and Others
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NinaSugati SR Shivdasani RovshenWriter
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NinaSugati SR Shivdasani RovshenProducer
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Associate Producer - Anushka Shivdasani RovshenProducer
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Associate Producer - Monishwar DayalProducer
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Vivan Rovshen DayalKey Cast"Atman and Muse"
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Anushka Shivdasani RovshenKey Cast"Exploring Spirituality and the Grahasth Householder Family Stage"
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Monishwar DayalKey Cast"Exploring Spirituality and the Grahasth Householder Family Stage"
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Animals, Birds and FishKey Cast"Other Manifest Characters of Awareness and Consciousness"
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Project Title (Original Language):Pragyanam (PRA: what has always been there & GYAN:knowledge-in Sanskrit)ie.PureConsciousness of the UniversalAbsolute or Soul
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Short, Other
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Runtime:60 minutes
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Completion Date:October 1, 2025
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Country of Origin:India
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Country of Filming:India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
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Silverlens Film AwardsBangalore, Karnataka
India
September 23, 2024
SILVERLENS FILM AWARD -
Elegant International Film FestivalKolkata, West Bengal
India
September 17, 2024
Best Woman's Film AWARD - Main Category -
Elegant International Film FestivalKolkata, West Bengal
India
September 17, 2024
Best Experimental Film - Finalist -
Roshani International Film FestivalAurangabad, Maharashtra
India
August 4, 2024
AWARD WINNER - Short Feature Film -
Dumbo Film FestivalBrooklyn, New York
United States
Semi Finalist -
Jharkhand National Film Festival (International)Jamshedpur
India
December 18, 2024
OFFICIAL SELECTION -
Spring Time International Film FestivalKolkata
India
October 26, 2024
Award Winner Finalist -
Global Visionaries Film FestivalSingapore
Singapore
Finalist -
Pageant International Film FestivalGangtok, Sikkim
India
December 5, 2024
AWARD WINNER -
Milan Indie Film FestivalMilan
Italy
December 15, 2024
AWARD WINNER - Best Short Documentary for Mental Health -
Hollywood Best Indie Film AwardLos Angeles
United States
December 10, 2024
TROPHY AWARD WINNER - Best Experimental Film -
Humro Cinema Film FestivalPokhra
Nepal
January 5, 2025
FINALIST - LIVE SCREENING Official Selection -
Cinematography & Photography AwardsLondon
United Kingdom
January 9, 2025
TROPHY AWARD WINNER & Nominee -
London Women Film FestivalLondon
United Kingdom
January 31, 2025
AWARD WINNER -
Berlin Short Film AwardsBerlin
Germany
March 1, 2025
Finalist. All Categories -
Script Symphony AwardKolkata
India
May 8, 2025
AWARD WINNER for BEST NARRATIVE Feature Film -
Script Symphony AwardKolkata
India
May 8, 2025
AWARD WINNER for BEST INSPIRATIONAL Film -
Chalachitra International Film AwardsFoligno Perugia
Italy
June 2, 2025
Selection Best film of the Season, Expertise Review, Best Narrative Feature
Distribution Information
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NEW FILM
YOGA Siromani
MFA: CALARTS Film Direction & Production
BFA: HONOURS ARCADIA UNIVERSITY Painting, Photography
WHITNEY MUSEUM: PaintingFellowship
School of Visual Arts: Photography A Grade
J J Institute: Fine & Applied Art
CATHEDRAL School Mumbai - Principals’Prize:AllRoundLeader
Exhibitions: NationalGallery ModernArt - Cymroza&Chemould ArtGalleries-NehruCentre-
Paintings in PrestigiousArtCollections Prince of WalesMuseum-Jehangir Nicholsons’--Bharat BhavanMuseum- many others
Originator: ImageographyFilms, Abstract Miniatures
InProcess: Other Film Edits
Consulting Counseling Mentoring
DIRECTOR's FILMOGRAPHY
IMAGEOGRAPHY AWARD WINNING FILM POEMS
BREAKING GROUND 1971 - 15mins
16mmColour
9 year old black girl
search for identity
HOPE NO ONE’S LISTENING 1972 - 15mins
16mmColour
Four victims of a technological society
A WORLD OF ALL INTELLIGENCE 1972 - 5mins
16mmColour
6 layered Philosophical, OpticalPrinter, LiveAction and Animation
THE BANANA LEAF
1972 PoeticDocumentary 5mts 35mmColour
(Essence of IBM ComputerChip)
CHHATRABHANG or THE DIVINE PLAN
1975
75mins 16mm 35mmColour
Author, Director, CoProducer
Concept, Editing, Sound Design, CinemaLanguage
Caste and RuralRelations – Analysis of how EcoPosition, SocialStatus, enable PoliticalClout through the
Conscientization of a RuralWoman
the first Indian FilmDirector awarded
InternationalFIPRESCI Critic’sAward
BerlinFilmFestival 1976
MaharashtraState Award - BestFilm 1976
Invited to approx. 30 festivalsWorldwide
Screened at several
1976 Member of International Jury
Carthage FilmDays
PURNAM EVAVASHISHYATE – WHOLENESS YET REMAINS
2016 1hour 35mts HD Digital
Chhatrabhang w Prologue & Epilogue
SUNLIGHT and LOVE in MOTION
2020 90mins
SWA: SOURCE WITHIN
INNER WEALTH
192 mins HD Digital Colour 2022
CONSCIOUSNESS_ PRAGYANAM
aka Nadh Resonance
NEW
59 mins
2023
Director’s Statement
Imageography is the foundation
of all my Cine Art Films
It is an approach that is based
on the hypothosis
that Srutis - Intrinsic Truth
and Laws of Nature
that the Rishis received
from vibrations,
during the process of Life,
exist everywhere and in everyone –
within us and out there, in the beyond
… merged, as in AtmaBrahm;
Soul and the Universal Absolute
We do not search for it…
We just need to be acutely aware
in a wholistic manner
in dhyan meditation, in the present moment –
for it to unfold and reveal itself
this approach ascertains, that we
embody and live the eternal truths
of sanatan dharm;
attributes of essential Existence
in its most natural and integral form
It is for me, the Artist Philosopher,
to perceive and experience this,
as objectively and intuitively
as possible and then express it
in Cinema Language
To provide clarity
and depth of Vision,
through Image and Sound Realization,
I use the Imageographic Visual Thought
and Sound Design, for exploring and developing
the nuances of the Concept
Eventually, a free form organic
cosmic flow emerges in the Film
A universal language
that becomes a meaningful, significant
and classical Art Statement or historical
document on the environment,
at different eras of History…
making the essential visible,
the unfamiliar intimate,
and the familiar, clearer than ever before
There is an assurance ‘aashvaasan’
here, of an Inner Transformation of Self
and an enlightened new interpretation and
understanding of what we are about,
as a part of the Whole
(Inspired by a study of the Upanishads
and my own interactions and relationship
with the environment and humanity)
NinaSugati SR
Shivdasani Rovshen
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Director, Producer, Author
Concept Development
Cinema Language
DOP & Cinematography
Editor