Videos Nitya Misra
Down The Drain, Bangalore 2025, 22:10 min
Down The Drain is a documentary-fiction film about Bangalore’s sewage, told from the perspective of a woman who accidentally flushes a watch down the toilet. In tracing the journey that the watch takes from the toilet, the narrator gets glimpses into the pipes and people that make up the sewage system in the city, and observes the system as well as its parts through conversations with different people. This project was commissioned by Science Gallery Bengaluru and funded by Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies.
The film combines mixed media and formats to weave together a story along with conversations with the people who are a part of different levels of the sewage system in the city. I got the opportunity to collaborate with a few artists and explore different visual forms, including shadow puppet, collage animation, and 2-D animation, to visualise this project.
Out The Door, 504, Bangalore 2021, 10:13 min
Out The Door, 504 is a love letter to the house I grew up in. This personal narrative was filmed on a phone camera during the pandemic, and documents my family as they prepare to move from the house they lived in for over twenty years. The film is an observation on attachments we form to houses, and how inhabited spaces speak to us. Through the film I question what “home” means.
Nitya Misra is an independent filmmaker based in Bangalore. Through her work, she observes and celebrates the seemingly inconsequential moments of everyday life.
Her work spans different film formats, including advertisement films, feature-length fiction, short fiction, music videos, and short documentaries. She uses techniques of visual storytelling to weave together video, writing, memory, music, and digital media to celebrate the extraordinary aspects of everyday life in urban spaces.
As an artist, she aims for my work to remind the viewer that however small and insignificant our lives may seem, in the grand scale of things, it is full of beauty and wonder.
Her work has been screened at several film festivals, both in India and internationally, including Indian Film Festival Stuttgart, Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, Arthouse Asia, among others.
