Partho Sen-Gupta was born in Mumbai (Bombay), India in 1965. He started his career as an apprentice in the art department in the studios of ‘Bollywood’. He then set up his own design studio and worked on numerous advertising films and feature films, designing sets and specializing in SFX. He was Art director on Alain Corneau’s Nocturne Indien in 1989. He won the award for Best Art Director in India in 1989.
In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study film direction at the FEMIS, the French film institute in Paris. MORE...
On the occasion of the exhibition, “Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India” at the Deutsche Guggenheim, the the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin will present the film and discussion series, “Moving Politics – Cinemas from India”, curated by Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf. Three program blocks with a selection of recent feature and documentary films as well as several classics of Indian film history will give an impression of the diversity with which (film) policies are made in India. Read the rest of this entry »
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‘Hava Aney Dey’ screening on 30th June in Berlin
Moving Politics – Cinemas from India
An event in cooperation with the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.