Aman Wadhan

Place of birth:

Chandigarh, Punjab, India:

Biography:

Aman Wadhan is a filmmaker, educator, and artistic researcher. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Film Direction from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and an MA in Documentary Film Direction (DocNomads) from the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SzFE), Budapest. In the course of making a handful of unfashionable short films, Aman is honing a poetic expression marked by warmth, intimacy, and sensorial delight. His process-driven work in camera and edit moves between diary, essay, and portrait, arriving at an ardent yet meditative attention to elemental relations in the world he films. He listens to the periphery, notices islands of quiet hope, and tests ways of inhabiting shared presence with care. Interwoven with his artistic research, his work turns to experimental documentary—within a broad lineage of devotional cinema—to reimagine folklore as a contemporary practice of transmission: not as quotation, but as form—rhythm, refrain, gesture, and threshold—through which the symbolic and the sacramental can be carried into the present without being flattened into spectacle, and through which a viewer may find re-attunement in attention, relation, and meaning.