Picturing Life (On the Art of Sudhir Patwardhan) (2023, 50 min) Ruptured Lines (2025, 19 min)
Screening Schedule
Friday, 24 July 2026 | 6:00 PM
Picturing Life (On the Art of Sudhir Patwardhan) (2023, 50 min)
Ruptured Lines (2025, 19 min)
About the Filmmaker
Harshil Bhanushali (b. 1990, Mumbai) is an independent filmmaker working at the intersection of avant-garde cinema and artist documentaries. Trained in journalism and film direction, his work explores landscapes, migration, and identity in flux, often reflecting decaying emotions and architecture. Picturing Life won Best Sound Design at the 16th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) and has been screened across India. His latest, Ruptured Lines, on artist Francis Newton Souza was selected for IDSFFK 2025 this year.
Picturing Life (On the Art of Sudhir Patwardhan)
Director: Harshil Bhanushali
Country: India
Year: 2023
Runtime: 50 minutes
Time: Friday, 24 July 2026 | 6:00 PM
Synopsis: This film is a meditative experience that brings Sudhir Patwardhan’s paintings to life. It explores the various aspects of the painter’s work by structuring the film around his journey as a painter in the city of Mumbai, oscillating between social and personal concerns.
Ruptured Lines
Director: Harshil Bhanushali
Country: India
Year: 2025
Runtime: 19 minutes
Time: Friday, 24 July 2026 | 6:00 PM
Synopsis:The short documentary reflects on painter Francis Newton Souza’s writings and creative practice, tracing the ideas that shaped one of modern India’s most provocative artists. A founding member of the Progressive Artists’ Group, Souza was one of India’s most influential modernists, known for his bold, confrontational style. Born in Goa, he later lived and worked in London and New York, building an international reputation for work that challenged religion, sexuality, and power.