Ruchir Joshi

Four unassuming friends, launch an anonymous social media page "Meme Boys" shedding light on their oppressive college administration with a punch of humor. What starts as an innocent fun exercise, soon revolutionizes the entire college, birthing a movement of sorts in no time. With memes taking the college by storm, a cat-and-mouse game kicks off between the Meme Boys’ gang and the Dean.

A fourteen minute cine-poem, Memories of Milk City catches Ahmedabad at a time of transition, peeling away layers of textures, gestures and sounds, tripping over a culture and a language at war with themselves.

Set in a bar, the story revolves around witty banter, secrets, and an unpredictable turn of events.

Tradition and contemporary practice of Bauls, Bengali mystic minstrels, are explored in Calcutta filmmaker and author Ruchir Joshi’s essay film.

A personal film about a city that may only exist in a film or on TV; a film about various dreams about Calcutta. It starts with a variation on the first image of Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Apocalypse Now’ and takes the spectator along through a strange file full of ideas and images of the city. Some images come from the North - Hollywood films and European television. The commentators are a local, traditional painter and an Afro-American video-artist from New York. [Echo Park Film Center // LA FilmForum]

A cinematic document of simultaneous degradations of human space and dignity in Delhi - images of how roads, walls, constructions-in-progress, ganda nalas, billboards - all in some way attack the human body.