Nina Shivdasani

Nina Shivdasani Rovshen Sugati (also Nina Sugati SR ; born May 15, 1946 in Bombay ) is an Indian visual artist.

Life

She started out as a painter but later turned to photography, which she studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York . Her experimental film Chhatrabhang (German performance title: The falling throne ) won the first FIPRESCI award for an Indian film at the 1976 Berlinale . The eighty-minute color film about a box dilemma in rural India was shot among villagers by cinematographer Apurba Kishore Bir in two weeks and edited by Shivdasani over a year. This documentary is accompanied by music by Edgar Varèse and a commentary, written by Vinay Shukla and spoken by Amrish Puri .

Before that she made four short films and was probably the first Indian director of experimental films . Her photographs are shown in exhibitions.

Web links

• Nina Shivdasani in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Interview (PDF; 97 kB)
• Chhat slope

Individual evidence

1. ↑ india-today.com ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ The Falling Throne in the Lexicon of International Films
3. ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 427
4. ↑ india-today.com ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.