Nayantara Abul Fazal is a published Researcher, Academic, and practicing Animator. She also has an active Visual Arts practice that explores the old dichotomy between the traditional and the digital art themes. Her research and practice revolve around the impact of unique yet unnoticeable minute changes that can give an identity to her stories when they are extracted from her memory. The techniques that she explores in her work speaks for her religious, ethnic, and conforming context and the work she has been producing in lieu of this process has been exhibited throughout Pakistan.
Films shown in Divvy Film Festival 2024
A Distant Traveler
dir: Nayentara Abul Fazal & Mona Abdollahshahi
run time: 6:14 min
production year: 2023
Documentary short
synopsis: A young rhino migrates to a new land to find food and a suitable place to live and start a family. But upon arriving in Lisbon, the first thing she does is to find a place to belong in this unfamiliar city. She has with her an old photograph of the Belem tower which holds a remembrance of the first rhinoceros that came to Lisbon 500 years ago. The young rhinoceros, being a stranger in this city, is incapable of communicating well with the local inhabitants. Finally, she gets there with the guidance of a kind Portuguese family. But this was only the first step to a long and difficult life for the rhino who will need to make many adjustments to its nature and learn my norms.
The Journey of a Seed
dir: Nayentara Abul Faza
l run time: 4 mins
production year: 2022
animation
synopsis: With more and more natural forests felled to meet worldwide demand for consumer products, thousands of species could see much of their habitat lost to farmland. This story is a depiction of the impacts of this agriculture expansion. The fallow deer wanders into farmland where farmers are cultivating a new kind of field.
Films shown in Divvy Film Festival 2023
Cultivating Fields, 2022, Nayentara Abu Fazal
A wild deer, searching its way back to its forest that has been destroyed for the expansion of agricultural land, is viewed as a nuisance by the farmers.
Films shown in Divvy Film Festival 2021
The term "Sugar" (well-behaved in all ways of life, usually associated with women/girls eligible for marriage) demands excellence on everything a woman does throughout her life. It is one of the most desirable features a woman can hold as it renders one in a light of perfection, serenity and beauty. This is a story about the failure of norm
