Mundane Catastrophes

By Mridu Chandra We are both sculptor and creature of our world. We construct our reality just as we are products of it. We process and consume, we contemplate and react, and we complicate....

The Idea of a Village

By Oliver Husain The village has been left behind. It doesn’t play a big role in official culture and economic decisions. The village which progress has forgotten is pushed out to the margins. Yet,...

Monitor 3

Monitor 3, SAVAC’s third annual screening of contemporary South Asian film and video offers a curated glimpse into the vast amount of work being created by South Asian artists internationally. The videos selected for...

Monitor 2

Monitor is SAVAC’s annual screening of short works by South Asian artists that showcase new directions in film and video. The shorts in this collection represent different artistic approaches that offer exciting new ways...

Monitor 1

Untitled Displacement Series#2 Pavitra Wickramasinghe, Canada, 2003. 1:00 The act of eating transforms into a collision of arresting visual fragments. The God Konstantin Bronzit, Russia, 2003. 5:00 In this animated short, even a fly...