Film

Désirée Ickerodt is a German filmmaker living in London. Her creative journey started at the age of four when her mother enrolled her in her first painting class. Most of the children were older, and she was the youngest. She was told to paint a fish. At the time, she was not quite sure what a fish was other than that it was probably some animal. So, she used her imagination, and the result looked...

J. Udayabhaskara Sastry, 69, is a documentary and short-film maker, accredited independent journalist, Vedic astrology researcher and associate member of the Telugu Cine Writers’ Association based at Hyderabad, Telangana State, India. His latest project, documentary on Arunachalam Hill, titled Antipode of Arunachalam Hill, deals with the unexplored part of the spiritual teachings of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi who most of the Indians consider as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. Sastry’s first documentary film, made in vernacular...

Yolanda Barker is an Irish-Polish film director, author and mental health advocate. She’s directed award-winning documentaries like ‘Cereal Killers’. Born in Limerick city to an Irish father and Polish mother, her film making aspirations began at the age of eight, when she saw ‘The Little Mermaid’, and promptly decided she wanted to make films for Walt Disney. In her teens, through a deepening understanding of her own mental health struggles, she became drawn to films...

The integrative approach found in Vocal Tai Chi (the other project I am presenting as part of the Spiritual Arts Foundation) was taken further in 2015. I was itching to put this unusual voicework (Vocal Tai Chi) in public concert form. One day I clocked that ‘conduction’ might be the way to do that: Sun Ra, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Phil Minton and Peter Wiegold and The Improvisers’ Orchestra are examples of others who have...

Thida Nathalie Sheldon is a die-hard nomadic self-taught filmmaker who is so infatuated with human stories that she has been consistently diving into them ever since teaching herself how to use a mirrorless DSLR camera and sound recorder back in 2015. Having ingratiated herself in more than twenty countries, she has developed a huge curiosity for the characters, places, norms and cultures that she has befriended along the way. A travelholic, fascinated with the weaving...