Scholarship on Bengali cinema, writing on the way he makes films, and the organisations he leads.
PhD in cinematic music, Assam University, India, 2022. His master’s and MPhil, in Bengali language and literature and in environmental science, are from the University of Dhaka. He is a former lecturer.
A study of music in the films of Ritwik Ghatak, read in the context of the 1947 Partition of Bengal. Alongside the research he made “Ajantrik” (2018), a film on Ghatak.
His own way of making films brings together nature, ecofeminism, ecology and a surreal poetic language: poetic cinema shot on real land, with real water, among the people who live there. He sets it out in New Cinema and the Raw Realism Movement, and calls the whole outlook metamodern.
Books collecting the screenplays of Nekabborer Mohaproyan, Maya: The Lost Mother, Soul of Nature: BOK, Street Philosopher and Old Is Alone, each with critical reviews.
Speaker at the two-day international webinar “Literature, Technology, Cinema”, Department of Bengali, Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata, 11–12 November, held with ICSSR-ERC support.
His independent advertising and production company in Dhaka, which has produced all of his films: Nekabborer Mohaproyan (as Bratya Films), Maya: The Lost Mother and Soul of Nature: BOK. It also publishes some of his books and releases his songs.
Chief executive: Masud Pathik. 395/3 Free School Street, Hatirpool, Dhaka, Bangladesh. bratyacreationofficial@gmail.com
A forum that uses film to raise awareness of the environment and of autism. Masud Pathik is its president.
An organisation for international cultural exchange. Masud Pathik is its president.