AT A GLANCE
Bharath Murthy
Area of Practice:
Comics, Animation, Film, Graphic Narratives
OVERVIEW
BHARATH MURTHY, born in 1978 at Ahmedabad (Gujarat, India), studied painting at the M.S.University of Baroda and film direction at Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute, Kolkata. He has since made documentaries, drawn comics and animation and taught at higher education institutions, including at FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) in Pune and Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore. The Vanished Path: A Graphic Travelogue (HarperCollins India, 2015) is his first book-length comic. He edits and publishes comics under the Comix India label while continuing to work on comics and animation projects.
EDUCATION
- BFA Painting, M.S.University of Baroda
- PG Diploma in Film Direction & Screenplay Writing, Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute, Kolkata.
WORK EXPERIENCE
- 2012-15 – Asst Prof, Film Direction & Screenplay Writing, FTII, Pune.
- 2016- Adjunct Faculty, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune.
- 2018- Associate Prof, Film Direction & Screenplay Writing, FTII, Pune.
- 2019-present, Faculty, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art Design Tech.
INTEREST AREAS
- Comics history
- History of Indian visual narratives
- Adaptations of literature into comics.
- Currently working on a book-length comic on Gandhi.
CURRENT PRACTICE AT SRISHTI
Teaching comics, animation, film and other visual narrative related areas.
TEACHING PORTFOLIO
CREATIVE PRACTICE & OUTREACH
- Made a number of documentaries, including a feature documentary for NHK, Japan about comics sub-cultures in Tokyo (The Fragile Heart of Moe, 2010).
- Written and drawn book-length comic of 200+ pages (The Vanished Path: A Graphic Travelogue, 2015).
- Done animation for a documentary and a theatre production.
