Ranjan Kamath
My blogs
Gender | Male |
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Industry | Arts |
Occupation | Film Maker/ Theatre Practitioner |
Location | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
Introduction | I think...therefore I Am Independent, Iconoclastic, Irreverent. "Man who think always put Descartes before the horse" - old jungle saying. Ranjan Kamath is a learning innovator marrying three decades of experience as a performance arts practitioner with three decades as a film maker exploiting the power and potential of the story. Ranjan has been working both as cinematographer and director on feature documentaries and television series for PBS, BBC, Channel Four, National Geographic and Discovery Channel among others. He produces and directs feature documentaries.His films include ‘Fishers of Men’, ‘The Die Is Caste’, ‘Tam Bram in a Jazz Jam’‘ and ‘Tanvir Ka Safarnama’. In 2005, he founded natakvalas, a performance arts initiative employing psycho-physical training in drama. Presently, he is creating the Mitra Tantra: Archive of Oral Histories and Personal Narratives and Audio Katha: An archive of audio stories in all Indian languages. |
Interests | Kalaripayattu, Music, Swimming, Culinary Arts. |
Favorite Movies | 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lawrence Of Arabia, Closely Observed Trains |
Favorite Music | Jazz, Classical, Opera |
Favorite Books | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Steps To An Ecology Of The Mind |