Winner, Best DocumentaryNepal-America International Film Festival
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In 1984, a centuries-old Lakshmi-Narayana statue was stolen from a temple in Patan, Nepal.
Nearly four decades later, it came home.
Screened in Kathmandu, Berlin, Paris, New Orleans. Now New York.
Sparked by his grandmother's ailing health, a filmmaker returns to Kathmandu, a city of vanished gods and fading rituals. He sets out to locate the valley's stolen gods and fulfil her final wish.
When the Lakshmi-Narayana statue resurfaces in a U.S. museum, local activists lead the fight to bring it back. He follows its repatriation through ritual, shrines and the diaspora, alongside a deeply personal family story.
With rare archival footage of Kathmandu from the 1950s, and a quiet investigation into the art collector who acquired the statue, the film asks what it means to lose, and reclaim, the sacred.
Vacant Light presents Have You Seen My Gods? written & directed by Amitabh Joshi produced by Erik Spink producers Bibhakar Shakya, Amitabh Joshi associate producer Prateek Bhatta cinematography by Amitabh Joshi additional cinematography Bishnu Kalpit researcher Nabin Uprety stills photographer Shikhar Bhattarai music by Samvaran Prethu Rai production sound Bishan Basnet sound designer & mixer Dikesh Khadgi Shahi colorist Jeffrey Chance poster designer Sandeep Badal
Director
Amitabh is a director and cinematographer. His first feature documentary, Tashi's Turbine, screened at festivals worldwide and premiered on PBS's The WORLD Channel. He was co-producer and co-cinematographer on A Little Wisdom (SXSW 2018), took part in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Artist Academy at the 2016 New York Film Festival, and has shot for Art21 and documentaries around the world.
Producer
Erik directs and produces films, television and commercial campaigns, and is Head of Development at Vacant Light. His work has been shown at MoMA and at film festivals, and broadcast worldwide. He produced Tashi's Turbine, was a 2017 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, and co-directed and produced for American Masters and Firelight Media's series In The Making.
Take the N or W to 36 Av, or the M or R to Steinway St. Both are a short walk from the museum.
