Shabnam Sukhdev & Jim Jarmusch The syllabi for the short intensive courses I design with Cinema, change with the changing set of...

This course, was attempting something difficult; an understanding of the nuanced and complex role of a Director in the making of a film.

Is Art so dangerous? Isn't Cinema entertainment? Does one get banned, prosecuted or exiled for entertainment?

An autobiopic; a story of love seeking to restore a healing whole to its fragments; the parts that often tend to pull us apart.

Yamagata feels intimate, much like Cinema. Art is critical human practice. The more its pushed under ground, stronger the force it gathers.