Varsha Panikar

BIOGRAPHIE

Varsha Panikar (She/Her) is an upcoming filmmaker, poet, and artist who likes to tell stories by blending the medium of poetry, performance, art, moving images, and sound. Driven by an unyielding desire to constantly create, regardless of the medium, she likes to do a bit of everything; from commercials, independent audio-visual endeavours to delving into the sphere of art, poetry and performance. She has been working with some brilliant directors from within and outside India, in different capacities, for a decade. Her debut music video Maya featuring Coshish, a Mumbai based prog-rock band was produced by Universal Music and listed in the top 10 music videos by Rolling Stones. Drawing inspiration from dreams, memories, and the innate need to understand the pattern of her own existence, she aims to provoke and evoke certain emotions and ideas in her audience, the kind that compels them to question, introspect, and unravel the mysteries that hide within them. Her themes range from slice of life to identity, gender politics, the quest for discovery, existential dread, mental health, to new-age romance. She is interested in stories that are so personal that it becomes universal; the kind that riffs on fear, pain, passion, and the struggles of leading a human existence. She also moonlights as a voice-over artist apart from performing Spoken-Word. She is an aspiring narrator and enjoys collaborating her voice in and with art, photos, or videos. Her poems and artwork have been published in ‘Rogue – The Zine’, available on Amazon Kindle. Her artwork has also been showcased and sold at various events and exhibitionsRecently, her photo-poetry digital zine ‘Whisperings To My Shadows’ was showcased at “Queer Futures Archive” at Sydney, alongside some pieces from “Bodies of Desire’, her ongoing sketch- poetry series.

FILMOGRAPHIE