SWA: SOURCE WITHIN aka INNER WEALTH
SWA: SOURCE WITHIN
INNER WEALTH
Revealed to the Rishis (sages)
through vibrations...
and for us, a mystery to be lived
the Upanishads,
quintessence of spiritual wisdom on human existence
and its relation to the cosmos
the Taittiriya Upanishad reveals
the invisible thread to the “Source Within”
SWA: the ‘Self’ is metaphorically hidden
in a multi layered 5 sheath formation
of interlocking caves
we lose touch
with our true subtle selves,
when we identify with
a fluctuating mind
and the multiplicity
of a manifest reality
the film explores a vision...
to experience and merge
with the Universal Absolute;
is the culmination of Inner Spiritual Wealth
we need to be at peace
with ‘Wholeness’
thus in our lucid states of meditation...
our consciousness experiences
a joyful sharing of the same space
as the ETERNAL INFINITE;
an eternal infinite, that supports all mutations...
the effortless sublime state of ‘Samadhi’
we are enlightened...
as the film, elevates human consciousness
NinaSugati SR
Shivdasani Rovshen
Copyright 2021
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NinaSugati SR Shivdasani RovshenDirector'Chhatrabhang' aka 'the Divine Plan' FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin Film Festival - 3 short films All Award Winners and screened at Museums - Imageography Seminal CineArt Films 'Breaking Ground' 'Hope No One's Listening' 'World of All Intelligence' 'Feature Film 'Wholeness Yet Remains: Chhatrabhang with Prologue and Epilogue'
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NinaSugati SR Shivdasani RovshenWriter
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NinaSugati SR Shivdasani RovshenProducer'Chhatrabhang' aka 'the Divine Plan' FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin Film Festival
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Sarvapriyananda jiKey Cast"Sutrakar (Narrator)"
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Vivan Rovshen DayalKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary, Feature
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Runtime:3 hours 12 minutes
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Completion Date:December 15, 2021
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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, Hindi
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Shooting Format:Digital Full Frame H264
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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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Roshani International Film FestivalAurangabad, Maharashtra
India
August 4, 2024
Award Winner -
15th Dadasaheb Film FestivalNew Delhi
India
April 30, 2024
Official Selection - Screened as Opening Film - Certificate of Excellence received -
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
Best Feature Editing
Distribution Information
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NEW Recent Film
DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY
CINEART FILMPOEMScopyright
AcclaimedSEMINAL WORKS of IMAGEOGRAPHY
OriginatorWorldwide
Recently:2020-2021
3 FilmPoems
curator:NancyAdajania
LondonCamdenArtCentre-OnLine
“Zigzag Afterlives” 1960’s&70’s India
Recently:May 2021 shown atJehangirNicholsonArt Foundation–ChhatrapatiShivajiMuseum
“An Exploded View” OnLineCurator:NancyAdajania
Invited to present myVision,amongst prominent FilmPersonalities–KumarShahani, AshimAlluwalia,AkbarPadamsee of ‘Syzig’
BREAKING GROUND - Completed
1971 Imageography 15mts16mmColour
9 year old black girl,
wants to find herIdentity &way ofLife
PrintAcquired:CALARTS California,
NationalArchivesIndia
Award:WashingtonDCFstvl
Screened:PasadenaArtMuseum,Egg&Eye,LA
NCPA,NFDC,NehruPlanetarium
HOPE NO ONE’S LISTENING - Completed
1972 Imageography 15mts16mmColour
four emotionally InterconnectedWavelengths;
victims of a TechnologicalSociety
PrintAcquired:CALARTS USA
&NationalArchiveIndia
Award:BellevueFilmFstvl,Washington
ChicagoInternationalFilmFstvl
Screened:LosAngelesFilmInternational,
Egg&Eye NFDC,NCPA
A WORLD OF ALL INTELLIGENCE - Completed
1972 Imageography 3mts16mmColour
6 layered philosophical,opticalPrinter,liveAction, animationFilm–from ChildhoodInnocence to Young-oldMan,to laughter&Life’sVicissitudes
Screened:NCPA,NFDC
SOMETHING ABOUT TRANSFORMATION
& RE DISCOVERY-THE BANANA LEAF-Completed
1972 PoeticDocumentary5mts35mmColour
from the BananaLeaf to BejeweledThaali ofGreed...
voluntarily returning to SimpleLife
of BananaLeafMeals:
Essence ofthe IBMComputerChip
CHHATRABHANG or THE DIVINE PLAN - Completed
1975 Imageography 80mts16mm&35mmColour Author,Director,Producer,Concept,Editing, CinemaLanguage; DOP,ArtDirector,SoundDesign
on caste and rural relations – a POETIC ANALYSIS WITHIN the FABRIC of theFILM, of how EcoPosition, and SocialStatus, enable PoliticalClout–through the conscientisation of a real VillageWoman,&others; while making theFilm
the first IndianFilmDirector to receive:International FIPRESCI Critic’sAwardBerlinFilmFestival1976
MaharashtraStateAward:BestFilm1976
MilestoneLandmarkInnovativeFilm:
History ofCinemaLanguage&Form
Invited:CannesCritic’sWeek
Locarno
CarthageFilmDays
MIFFMumbai
2004OpeningFilm:ExperimentaBritishCouncil Mumbai,Delhi
Invited:Screened:FilmHuisDenHague,
BestIndianCinemaExperimenta
FigueroDeFozPortugal
Invited:SpecialScreening:LandmarkFilm
11th IAWRT AsianWoman’sFestvl2015Delhi
Mannheim
PrintsAcquired:NationalArchiveIndia
&ArsenalBerlin;
Screened inTheatres for 12 years as a Classic-Austria,Germany,Switzerland
MostraInternational delFilm d’Autore,SanRemo
Tehran
Leipzig
Grenoble&FemmesMediaParis
InternationalFestvl:Woman’sFilmsNY
Festival:IndianFilms–4thTriennaleCouncil CreativeArts,Delhi
Tashkent,USSR
Stratford,Ontario
Included:Encyclopedia:IndianCinema
Rajyadaksha,Willemen
1976InternationalJuryCarthageFilmDays
Purnam Evavashishyate–Wholeness Yet Remains
(Chhatrabhang withPrologue andEpilogue) Completed
Imageography 1hour35mtsHD16mm35mm
a Study of &Inspired by the Upanishads;
toTransform this DailyTerrestrialVision...
into SpiritualEnlightenment
in the advent of TrueLiberation
SWA: SOURCE WITHIN
aka Inner Wealth - Completed
Dec 15th 2021 Imageography 3hrs 12mts 17sec
(Interval at 2hrs Optional)
HD 1080x1920 CineFullFrame,Digital
Inspired by the Taittiriya Upanishad
Explores andUnravels the InvisibleThread
that leads us to the SourceWithin,our InnerWealth
with SwamiSarvapriyanandaji and MostImportant others, who enhance and live theConcept
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Born May 15 1946 Yog Siromani
Married w one child and one grandchild
Education
1973 MFA Master of FineArts
Independent Film&Video Direction Production
CALARTS California Institute ofthe Arts
Mentor: TerrySanders
Studied with DonLevy,
KrisMalkeiwiez, JulesEngels, SandyMcKendrick, RobertNelson, SaulLandau,
PatO’Neil,
StanVan derBeek and Others
1970 BFA with Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts: Painting and BA joint curriculum
Arcadia University, Philadelphia
Dean’sList
Editor in Chief: Yearbook
Gargoyle DesignAward: Literary Magazine
SpruanceDaumier ArtAward
UnitedNations ModelProgram
Studied with BentonSpruance, JackDavis,
DeanGillette, JeanFrancksen, RuthLehrer
1970 Whitney Museum NY
Awarded: Independent Study PaintingFellowship
1967 School of VisualArts
Photography A Grade
1967 Advertising Art Director: Young & Rubicam NY
1966 1965 Visualizer: Paul Klemptner NY
Visualizer: Shilpi Advertising
Winner of CAG Award: Airline Cargo Campaign
ArtDirector’s Award: Whisperjet Campaign
1966 Sir J J Institute of Fine&AppliedArt
Intermediate Diploma
1953 – 63 Cathedral & John Connon School
SeniorCambridge FirstDivision Principal’s Prize: best
All Round Leader
Swimming & Gymnastics Championships, Biology Prize
1990-2000
Workshops and International Conferences:
MohileParikh Centre for the VisualArts
amongst other Workshops
Xavier’s VideoWorkshop
Invited to participate in VIEW – Vision Exchange Workshop –
AkbarPadamsee’s NehruFellowship -
PaintingWorkshop: KC College 24 Artists
on 3 canvases
Exhibitions
Painting, Imageography, Photography
Solo & GroupShows
NGMA,
50 years of Art
since India’s Independence
Cymroza ArtGallery
Chemould ArtGallery
NehruCentre – HarmonyShow
GroupShow of Artists
for a Sustainable World
Metal Sculpture ‘the Oggling Octopus’
(jointly by Nina SR
and Anushka
at MaxmuellarBhavan)
StudioExhibit (first of its kind)
“ from Tranquility to Transcendence”
Paintings in Many ArtCollections
Prince of WalesMuseum – JehangirNicholson’s Collection of ContemporaryArt,
BharatBhavan MP
Wipro, Azim Premji
Air India
Mahindra&Mahindra
TajGroup of Hotels
Lady &Sir Walton; UK Composer of ‘La Mortella’
and many, many others
Studio: Mumbai,
also represented by Cymroza ArtGallery
Originator of the Contemporary Abstract Miniature Painting (Abstract Realism)
Presently in Process; Working on several digital films, Painting, and Commerce aspects of work
Consulting, Mentoring, Counseling
Director’s Statement
my entire film making APPROACH,
in all humility, is unique
I CHOREOGRAPH the IMAGES and SOUND
with my camera, during the process
of Cinematography
sometimes, I have a Hypothosis,
a Concept or a brief Outline
Most truth can be elicited from what and how I film
I ensure that my AWARENESS
and Consciousness is optimum
The ENERGY GRAPH of the film,
and Screenplay Graphics (rather than subtitles)
are developed during the Edit,
I decode the images and shape
the whole as close to the truth, as possible
…discovering anew, what my film is really about
If it differs from what I thought originally,
I modify it accordingly
Thus I arrive at the inner lives of the characters,
rather than an ego driven perception
the UPANISHADS inspire my work
I draw parallels with the unmanifest of the Upanishads and the manifest
of our everyday realities…
the two are ‘miraculously’ interlinked
IMAGEOGRAPHY of which I am the Originator,
is the specific Genre that forms
the foundation of my CineArt
The GEOGRAPHY of the framed space,
and how I move within it, is a LANGUAGE
of its own…giving meaning and signifance
to the choices that reveal and satisfy
Based on the hypothosis
that ‘Shrutis’ vibrations of intrinsic truths,
received by the Rishis during meditation; Dhyan
exist everywhere and in everyone;
Individual Soul and the Universal Absolute
We do not have to search …
We just need to be acutely aware
with all five senses
in a wholistic manner…
poised in the NOW,
where truth miraculously emerges
As a film maker, I am most concerned
with our ability to mutually interconnect
to apply knowledge in the spiritual realm,
as we go from darkness and ignorance
to the light of PURE CONSCIOUSNESS
…toward an existence, more
integrated and enlightened
NinaSugati SR
Shivdasani Rovshen
Copyright 2021