New Delhi-based filmmaker & performance artist. Moving fluidly between Super 16mm & digital hybridity, my work centers the brown queer body through a distinct Filmdance methodology.
Priyanka Sarkar is an Indian filmmaker, performance artist, and researcher whose practice treats the cinematic frame as a queer, performative space to be physically occupied and claimed. A graduate of the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK, 2024) with an MFA in Film focusing on Affect Theory, her transcontinental practice includes institutional exchanges at FAMU (Prague) and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Operating through a distinct Filmdance methodology, Sarkar’s work explores body politics, displacement, and collective intimacy. Her practice spans from the ritualistic, interior journeys of earlier avant-garde shorts like YATRA (grounded in the philosophy of Atman is Brahman) to her ongoing performance avatar, ANKA, which challenges the politics of the gaze through hyper-aesthetic, sensory disruptions. Her work has exhibited at the Millennium Film Workshop (NYC) with accolades across Europe and South Asia in film festivals and exhibitions. She operates through Laidback Productions while developing her debut hybrid feature, Endless Sunsets.
New Delhi-based filmmaker & performance artist. Moving fluidly between Super 16mm & digital hybridity, my work centers the brown queer body through a distinct Filmdance methodology.
