Panel Discussion - Visual Storytelling as Cultural Archive: Documenting Rural Art and Intangible Heritage
Fri, 21 Nov
|State Art Gallery, Madhapur
This panel examines how visual storytelling through film and photography helps research, preserve, and archive rural art and cultural memory, safeguarding indigenous knowledge and amplifying community voices.
Time & Location
21 Nov 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
State Art Gallery, Madhapur, Road No.1, Kavuri Hills Jubilee Hills, D Mart, police station, near Madhapur, CBI Colony, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana 500033, India
Guests
About the event
This panel explores how the visual medium plays a critical role in researching, preserving, and archiving rural art and cultural memory. Featuring filmmaker Jennifer Alphonsse (Nagoba Jathara: The Tribal Carnival) and Geetha Bhatt and Smitha Tumuluru, co-authors of Deevara Chittara, the discussion highlights how visual storytelling can safeguard indigenous knowledge, amplify community voices, and create lasting records of living traditions. The session will be moderated by Bhavana Kadambari, a creative consultant and strategist.
Jennifer Alphonse / Filmmaker
Jennifer Alphonse is an Indian filmmaker, visual storyteller, and author known for her distinctive cinematic style and deeply human narratives, with work spanning commercials, short films, documentaries, and award-winning international projects. She is the first Asian female filmmaker to shoot a feature in Afghanistan, and even when political changes forced her to repurpose the footage into a narrative song, she preserved the essence of the story with creative resilience. Her films, including Habeeb,…