"Whose biography? How & Why? "

<strong>Centre for the Study of Social Systems School of Social Sciences</strong> <strong>CSSS Colloquium</strong> <strong>Mr. Sudheer Gupta</strong> (Independent Film Maker) a presentation <strong>"Whose biography? How &amp; Why? "</strong> <strong>Date: August 18, 2016</strong> Abstract: "Song of a Painter" 2006/40 mins/ HDV/ Hindi with English subtitles. "Dream of a Painter" 2013/40 mins/ HD/ English with English subtitles. I will be showing two of my short documentary films 40 mins each, about two painters. One, about an Indian painter Manohar Deolalikar and two, about a British painter Robert Ord Page. Both films are biographical. Both the painters are no more with us. These are the only films about them. By showing example certain complexities involved in making of biographical films, the purpose is to Wonder about key question of whose, how and why biographical films. It also ponders about biographical films as a wonderful tool of recording living/lived histories. Bio: Sudheer Gupta is an alumni from CHS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He has been making independent and commissioned documentary films since 1990. His films ar about social realities, developmental dilemma, environment issues, folk-traditions, folk-performers and artists. His films have been shot in India, Germany, UK and USA, and have been exhibited all over the world through various networks.