Films for a violin
global collaborative residency project 2025 at Maah
A collaborative classroom that brings together musicians and film makers to create & discover a visual/sonic language that permeates through cultures and individual creative spaces.
Process unfolds as these Artists from all walks of life come together to experiment and build a shared language of sound and image. Over the span of 2–3 months, the residency follows a cycle of listening, responding, and refining.
Year 2025 - For the first time, A musician Tanish Khandwal was invited as the resident artist. Past residents include Theatre artists, visual artists, dancers.
The residency space at Maah is an experimental lab to play with ideas and possibilities.
It is an invitation made to an artist to work on a project or develop new ideas.
Artists often use them to explore their work outside of their usual context and explore experimental urges.
What began as a solo project of composing symphonies, slowly grew into a global collaborative exchange lab of visual language.
An open call was sent out to ask people to hop on board to create visuals for the music composed by the resident artist.
Multiple visuals in response to the same piece of music reflecting the beauty of how symphonies are absorbed & perceived individually.
The open call drew attention & applications from people all across the globe including Visual Artists, Performers, Film-makers, Musicians etc.
Curators : Kamakshi Saxena , Shreeya K Agarwal
Creative Associate : Pooja Udhwani
Tanish Khandwal was our resident artist for Summer 2025.
He has a degree in bachelor of performance art and completed his Masters of performance art in violin.
He has completed Grade 8 in violin from Trinity College of London and Grade 6 in keyboard from Trinity College of London. He has featured in the film ‘Super 30’ alongside Hrithik Roshan and works with Zee Music. He has been featured in the magazine Rolling Stone India, Springtide magazine, to name a couple.
He also works at Jayshree Periwal International School as a music teacher. He also regularly takes workshops at Rajasthan Sangeet Sansthan. He was awarded the ‘Sur Sadhak’ award from Sangeet Kala Kendra, Agra.
Alongside his music partner Abhin, Tanish has been performing and writing music for about two years now. Their debut single “Kami Hai” is a labor of their love.
Collaborative film makers / visual storytellers
Tejas
A quiet seeker of the strange and the beautiful. With a Bachelor’s in Performing Arts (2023) and a postgraduate degree in Social Communication Media (2025), his work lives at the intersection where the personal meets the political, where small human gestures carry the weight of larger histories.
His photo essay has been featured in Marginalia Magazine, he staged ‘Beej’, an experimental play stitched with haiku-like dialogues, and has embarked
on many more creative adventures. Tejas treats storytelling as both craft and conscience. He believes words are precious, to be used with care; like light,
like breath. And in his work, he seeks not spectacle but a quiet resonance, a pulse that connects the intimate to the universal.
Paribartana Mohanty
Paribartana Mohanty is a multimedia artist, primarily working with video, performance lectures and painting. His recent work explores and speculates on the new environment-disaster-landscapes emerging near the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Odisha and studies the deep impacts of recurring cyclones, tsunamis and land erosion on marginal coastal communities, and nature and culture at large.
He earned a BFA from Dhauli College of Art and Craft, Bhubaneswar (2004) and an MA in History of Art from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi (2006). Mohanty was born in 1982 in Odisha (India). He currently lives and works in Delhi and Odisha. His work has been exhibited in many group exhibitions and film festivals across the globe.
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Ritwika Ganguly
Ritwika Ganguly is a visual artist from Kolkata who is currently based in Baroda. Her BFA, from Kala Bhavana, VBU, Santiniketan and MVA from Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda are both in painting, and she is keenly interested in video and animation as well. Her works reflect her experiences
of people, places and the time she dwells in.
She is curiously drawn toward the human subconscious gestures that fall on the borderline between the duality of judgments. Through her works, she aims to bring these gestures and images out of their quotidian context and allow their simplest, most negligible existence to approach people subjectively. She is currently represented by the studio catalyst programme by Anant Art, Delhi.
Shreya Sahai
Shreya Sahai, born in Jharkhand and raised in Delhi, is a visual artist whose work moves between the conceptual and the documentary. Through an interdisciplinary lens shaped by her background in art, theatre, filmmaking, Journalism, and Hindustani classical music, she explores themes of identity, home,and belonging.
She holds a BA in English and is a two-time graduate of the International Center of Photography, New York (Creative Practices, 2022; Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism, 2023). She lives and works in New York City and in her free time, she likes to play the violin.
Molly Kelly
Molly is a dance artist working across performance, film, and installation.
She is currently completing a Master’s in Contemporary Dance Performance
at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, where her research explores embodiment, collaboration, and the intersections between movement, sound, and visual form.
One of Molly’s recent project include Sound Escaping (2024–25), an experimental dance film and installation developed in collaboration with a harpist. Past projects include cultural exchange residencies in different countries. Her work reflects a growing interest in visual art contexts, where dance can be experienced beyond it’s original form.
Katie Retjko
Katie is a filmmaker and writer currently based in New England. She combines her love of film, photography, 3D animation and music in her practice, often working with installations to bring them all to life. Their practice functions as visual poetry, building parts and piecing them together once they start speaking. She is guided by the powerful impact that memory and loss have on our individual.