Studio Udhedbun Established 2025 · Chandigarh, India
Independent Film & Documentary Studio · Chapter I

Udhedbun.

The restlessness of culture, art, and vulnerability, through short films, documentaries and photographs.

Founded2025
BasedChandigarh, India
Formats16mm · Digital · Text
CurrentlyEditing Film 03
§ 02 · Studio Note · Chapter II

On what we make, and why we bother.

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
— Ankita Dutt Mishra, Founder & Director
Portrait of Ankita Dutt Mishra, founder and director of Studio Udhedbun.
Ankita Dutt Mishra Founder · Director · Cinematographer
§ 03 · Films · Chapter III

Short films and documentaries from the studio.

Independent work, self-produced, festival-circulated. Selected credits below; full catalogue available on request.

FILM / 01

Ceilings at 3 AM

A coming of age featuring five different individuals from age 15–19, exploring the worlds of their minds.

Year
2025
Format
DIGITAL · 4:3
Language
HINDI · ENGLISH
Status
ON THE CIRCUIT
FILM / 02

Everything That Didn't Happen

A montage of longing.

Year
2025
Format
DIGITAL · 16MM
Language
NO DIALOGUE
Status
RELEASED
FILM / 03

Half Asleep Coffee

 

Year
2026
Format
DIGITAL
Status
IN POST
§ 04 · Photographs · Chapter IV

Photographic essays — intimacy, labour, bureaucracy.

Each essay is worked on for years. Prints available; drop a note if a frame stays with you.

Latest essay · Street photography

The City Ruined My Taste

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.

Bangkok Street Colour 2024
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The City Ruined My Taste — cover photograph
§ 05 · Articles · Chapter V

Longform notes on making, looking, and getting it wrong.

Essays and studio dispatches — filed slowly, one at a time.

Studio DispatchCinema

On making a film with no money and too much feeling

An essay on cinema, first attempts, and the things that take longer to make than they do to shoot.

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02 · March · 2025Process

Why I still shoot on 35mm when nobody asked me to.

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.

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14 · Nov · 2024Letter

A letter to the girl who put the camera down.

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.

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§ 06 · Archives · Chapter VI

Older frames, outtakes, work put down for later.

A slow-growing index of past commissions, unreleased stills, and work in storage. Updated once a season.