Experience an extraordinary live performance and transmedia project weaving BFI archive, new media and electronica into imagined futures for South Asian multicultural heritage.
Emerging from a conversation with the BFI National Archive's extensive India on Film: 1899-1947 collection, this visionary transmedia project, seeded by the British Council (India/UK) and co-produced by Crossover Labs (UK), uses archival documentary footage alongside game engine cinematics, electro-classical music performance and AI-augmented worldbuilding to create immersive environments that surface underrepresented and speculative narratives from South Asia. Artists Murthovic (music composer) and Thiruda (media artist) will present a live performance specially curated for Sheffield DocFest. Following the performance, they will be joined by BFI producer and curator Simon McCallum for a discussion exploring their collaboration and what it means to work with this archive, not as historians but as world-builders - turning the colonial gaze into Indofuturist docufiction.
Speakers/Performers:
Avinash Kumar (Media Artist, Antariksha Studio)
Sri Rama Murthy (Music Composer, Antariksha Studio)
Simon McCallum (Producer - Archive & Industry, BFI)
In partnership with BFI National Archive
Age rating: 16+
