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Video Editor | Filmmaker | Visual Artist


From hating to loving Stan Brakhage
Be it art or ideology, our choices are ... always directed by emotions and feelings; an unexplainable connection we feel with it.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
May 27, 20244 min read


Film Curation : Intricate interplay between victimhood and villainy
In all these films violence is a product created out of unresolved trauma and emotional pain.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
May 21, 20247 min read


How to make Proxies for Video Editing in DaVinci Resolve.
Proxies can be simply made in Permier Pro or Da Vinci Resolve, without so much fanfare.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
May 12, 20241 min read


Conforming and Consolidating in DaVinci Resolve
Consolidating files ensures that all necessary media files are collected in one location or folder structure.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
May 9, 20241 min read


A Simple guide to Post-Production Workflow
Consider this a To-Do list. This is not the only way to do it but this to-do list is followed in many places.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
May 6, 20243 min read


File Formats and Codecs
How a data is structured (organized and formatted), stored and represented (audio, video, image etc) is decided by the Format.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
May 3, 20247 min read


A handy guide to Aspect Ratios and Video resolutions
Aspect ratio : The proportional relationship between the width (Horizontal) and height (vertical) of a frame.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
Apr 30, 20242 min read


‘ONRYOU’ IN ‘J – HORROR’ : A PORTAL TO THE POST WORLD-WAR SOCIOCULTURAL CONDITION OF WOMEN IN JAPAN. Part 6: Ju – On : Grudge by Takashi Shimizu
The motif of ‘Onryou’ represents these social concerns and wrongdoings of the society.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
Apr 28, 20243 min read


‘ONRYOU’ IN ‘J – HORROR’ : A PORTAL TO THE POST WORLD-WAR SOCIOCULTURAL CONDITION OF WOMEN IN JAPAN. Part 4: Dark Water by Hideo Nakata
In Dark Water, there was a cycle of abandonment and every generation suffered from it.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
Apr 24, 20243 min read


‘ONRYOU’ IN ‘J – HORROR’ : A PORTAL TO THE POST WORLD-WAR SOCIOCULTURAL CONDITION OF WOMEN IN JAPAN. Part 3: SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF “ONRYOU” MOTIF IN FILMS
‘Demonic mother’ is a result of feminist movement on 1970s and shifting Japanese society during and after the ‘Economic boom’.

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
Apr 22, 20243 min read


“Truth of the reality”- A discussion on the ethics of documentary film making.
"The only realistic artist, then, is God, if he exists. All other artists are, ipso facto, unfaithful to reality"

Sharmistha Chakrabartty
Apr 16, 20246 min read
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