Chitra Ganesh

Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at the surface. As they glide farther away and draw closer together, they reach out in collective queer and desirous exchanges — holding hands, drifting over and under their neighbors, making space, taking care of each other with a casual, gentle intimacy while they come together as individual parts of a whole. The video reflects on notions of togetherness and feminist theorist Silvia Federici’s call to “reconnect what capitalism has divided: our relation with nature, with others, and our bodies.”

Animated work inspired by nearby artworks that relate to Padmasabhava, known to Tibetans as the Second Buddha, and Maitreya, the Future Buddha, though each departs from the aesthetics and iconography associated with the traditional works.

Short personal animation piece

An open-ended narrative of memory, love, and loss

Animated work inspired by nearby artworks that relate to Padmasabhava, known to Tibetans as the Second Buddha, and Maitreya, the Future Buddha, though each departs from the aesthetics and iconography associated with the traditional works.

The title of this animated work by Chitra Ganesh refers to an elevated state of, or metaphor for, the consciousness transformation known as a rainbow body.

Silent Cuts is a non-linear narrative meditation on how interconnected themes of science fiction, epic myth, and Orientalism shaped iconic moments of a lost silent cinema world. The layered montage of clips from more than 20 shorts and features of the silent era suggests an early preoccupation with referents to theater, fantasy, and magic, and formal experiments that shaped early silent cinema.