IFA@Bangalore: Sleepwalker Archives | Film Screening by Karthik Subramanian | October 18, 2025 | Alliance Française de Bangalore

The Sleepwalker Archives is a project emerging from a collaboration between India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) under its Archives and Museums programme, and the French Institute Pondicherry, with Karthik Subramanian.

Film Screening: Sleepwalker Archives by Karthik Subramanian

October 18, 2025 | 04:00 PM onwards

 Auditorium
Alliance Française de Bangalore
Entry Free

Film Synopsis:

A photographer, while walking from the estuary to the source of the waterless Kaveri river, abandons his journey after encountering a woman whose image could not be recorded by his camera. Six years after dismissing that occurrence as a malady of the summer heat, he finds a note left behind in a photo archive about the very same woman. He begins another journey in search of that woman, following the scent of absence in the photographs of the archive.

Artist Bio:

Karthik Subramanian is a photographer and film-maker. As a child, Karthik travelled frequently between his life in the city and his grandparents' in the village - learning to experience the world as it moves through the window of a train. When he later travelled to photograph the place where the river Ganga joins the Bay of Bengal, the lament of the shifting land in front of him mixed inseparably with the half remembered memories of the landscape through the moving windows. At this slippery edge between water and land, began Karthik’s preoccupation with still and moving images, culture and ecology, history and mythology, the end and the beginning. 

This film screening is made possible in association with Alliance Française de Bangalore, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, and 1 ShanthiRoad Studio Gallery.