An esoteric take on young designer Shiva’s obsession with the photo of a girl snapped during a mysterious encounter. Within his daily routine, he focuses obsessively on this picture of her that keeps triggering his voyeuristic impulses.

Self-taught filmmaker Arun Karthick makes a remarkable debut with this surreal, abstract, and minimalist film. Poetically scrutinizing the layers of loneliness, voyeurism, and obsession, Sivapuranam creates a haunting feeling of mystery that lingers on after the lights come up.