UROBUROS PRODUCTIONS

     My work in film is a natural development of my very visual, symbolic and imagistic world expressed in my poetry and art.  Androgyne, my first film, explores the idea of love, the balance of opposites, and the relationship of art and life. I have also completed a feature length script about a young woman's journey in search of people like herself; the protagonist's journey takes her through lands more readily found in myth and fantasy.  
    I have been most impressed by the works of filmmakers Ingmar Bergman, Nicholas Roeg, Sidney Lumet and Satyajit Ray among others.
    

Androgyne. 29:44 min. 16 mm.

Writer/Director/Producer--Ambika Talwar
Cinematographer--David Smith
Original Score--Richard Alexander
Actors--Nina Mathews, Nicola Seixas, Vincent Zangari, Ivor Pyres, Rita Braziel
Completed Oct. 1999.

Synopsis--Arista, the protagonist, goes through a crisis with her work believing that all her work is ordinary.  Then she makes a masterpiece that magically comes to life and challenges her about her assumptions about life and love.  The life-size sculpture named Androgyne desires to be human, and in her wrangling threatens Arista.  However, only one of them can be human.

The film has shown in the following festivals:
Moondance International Film Festival--Boulder, Co., January 2000
New York International Independent Film & Video Festival--Santa Monica, Ca, April 2000
Festival Mondial du Cinema de Courts Metrages--Huy, Belgium, October 2000
Awarded the Best Original Story in the independent film category, Huy, Belgium.