Ceilings at 3 AM
A coming of age featuring five different individuals from age 15–19, exploring the worlds of their minds.
Studio Udhedbun
Established 2025 · Chandigarh, India
Udhedbun.
A working manifesto : revised often, printed rarely, always in progress.
Udhedbun is a studio based in Chandigarh, working in short films, documentaries, photography and archives. It was started as a space for vulnerable narratives, human things that sit uneasily, that people carry and rarely say, and that rarely find room. Udhedbun takes those things and turns them into visual essays: slow, unresolved, made with care.
Founded by photographer, aspiring filmmaker and writer Ankita, the studio grew out of ten years spent documenting streets, travel, people and culture. The studio makes intimate portraits, process films, documentaries and an archive of the everyday. Each project is made over time and close to its subject.
Udhedbun exists to look closely at what is hard to look at, and to keep it.
उधेड़बुन
Independent work, self-produced, festival-circulated. Selected credits below; full catalogue available on request.
A coming of age featuring five different individuals from age 15–19, exploring the worlds of their minds.
A montage of longing.
Each essay is worked on for years. Prints available; drop a note if a frame stays with you.
A collection of photographs from Bangkok that changed the way I understood colour, the way I looked at a street, and the things I considered worth photographing.
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Essays and studio dispatches — filed slowly, one at a time.
An essay on cinema, first attempts, and the things that take longer to make than they do to shoot.
Read the entry →Film costs money and slows you down. In a world addicted to speed and cheapness, those may be the two most useful things a camera can offer.
Read the entry →To the version of myself who quit for a year and thought that was the end. It wasn't. The camera was patient. It waited.
Read the entry →A slow-growing index of past commissions, unreleased stills, and work in storage. Updated once a season.