Today we’d like to introduce you to Sriram Thiruvengadam.
Hi Sriram, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Life sent me here to America to study film. In my journey of understanding life, I came across the question “Who am I?” It hit me, how was I supposed to understand life I didn’t know who was the one understanding life. What was the ONE thing that made me, ME? Identity was always changing and borrowed. My mind was always changing and borrowed, same with my emotions and the physical body. Who was I in this ocean that I called myself? My work and films aim to explore this questioning of subjective experience through a subjective medium like films. From this questioning numerous schools of philosophy such as Advaita Vedanta in India were born and served as the basis of Indian culture.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
Initially it was a grind, a constant seeking for knowledge and wisdom. But they were all mere intellectual struggles of logic and reasoning. But in hindsight, nothing was ever a struggle, it only appeared that way because of what I thought I was in that moment. Life by itself is always effortlessly flowing, even before humanity. Things will come and things will go, I just learn to ride life’s effortless wave that kept serving me things to do. A spontaneous flowing from one moment to the next. One story to the next.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I write and direct films. Films deeply rooted in life experiences. Whether it’s questioning one’s subjective experience or love or deeply human stories. Within every story at the heart of it, lies an emotion that breathes itself into its audience. My stories only aim in sharing what I’ve found. These stories can only reflect the dance that is life.
If we knew you growing up, how would we have described you?
Growing up, I always abided in silence. I didn’t possess great creativity nor was I very introspective nor did I have any smarts. I knew early on what career I wanted to have and slowly started building skills over time. But one day when I was 18 everything exploded from within. It was a sudden burst of activity. It was seemingly causeless, sudden growth in interest, creativity, intellect and emotional maturity… This then lead me to the question “Who am I?” and this consumed my mind and whatever I thought I was. All these personality traits served as stepping stones in journey of seeking. There were ups and downs but later I realized that the ups were never ups and neither were the downs, downs. All was life.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.ram-director.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/sriram.thiru?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Image Credits
Siddesh Pandey. Violetta Petruseva
