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Sujoy Bandyopadhyay initially started his academic career in UW's Fine Arts Film program but switched to the Independent Studies which better suited his diverse interests. Sujoy happily and creatively found a way to incorporate his different fields of study in the IS program.

Sujoy’s thesis is entitled, Maps of Human Communication: Science and the Arts. It deals with language and how the use of language imposes a structure on empirical reality, which may or may not be congruent with the current knowledge of the sensory experiential world. In the same way the structure of written language can define the content of a sentence, many different film making techniques are also explored to examine how they impose a structure on the content of a film.

Sujoy wrote and directed three short films for his thesis, in order to provide examples of film-making that adhered to an Existentialist structure. Due to technical issues, only one short was completed

Sujoy is currently involved in writing a feature length screenplay, as well as a graphic novel. He is also working as a DP (Director of Photography) for the web show A Quest for a Quest, which recently received a grant from the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztBTTiI171M

Additionally, Sujoy is interested in the field of Interpersonal Psychology and wants to pursue graduate work in this field.

You can read Sujoy Bandyopadhyay's thesis in PDF format.

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Sujoy Bandyopadhyay This page was last reviewed on August 24, 2011