Screening

About Prashant Bhargava

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2013

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Tickets are not required for Jorgensen Lectures Seven years in the making, Patang is Prashant Bhargava’s first feature film. His short film Sangam premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, garnering several awards and distinctions. The film was distributed by Film Movement and MUBI and broadcast on Arte/ZDF, The Sundance Channel and PBS. Prashant started out in the arts as a graffiti artist in his hometown of Chicago. He went on to study computer science at Cornell University and theatrical directing at The Actors Studio MFA program. For the past fifteen years, he has directed and designed commercials, music videos, title sequences and promos. Prashant’s next film is entitled The Highlands.

The visit is sponsored by The Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program. Special thanks to Michael Dodson.