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Saran was best known for his work as a filmmaker, a role he thrived in both at Harvard’s visual and environmental studies (VES) department and at international film festivals. His 1999 personal documentary, Summer in My Veins, won high praise from critics and became an inspiration to gays for its frank portrayal of his own reconcilement between family ties and homosexuality...
...film wasn’t just about telling the story. He made you care what he cared about,” said filmmaker Ross McElwee, who was Saran’s mentor and thesis advisor in the VES department. “And what he cared about had tremendous application for issues outside of his own life...
When he came to Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Alfred F. Guzzetti’s introductory filmmaking class as a sophomore, Saran’s eagerness made waves in the VES department...
...true enthusiast,” Guzzetti said, recollecting Saran as a prodigy, and the only VES concentrator who understood psychoanalyst Lacan, a famous name in film studies, “better than...
Even as he worked to edit his film, Saran also devoted his time and effort to fostering the talents of younger Harvard filmmakers when he became a teaching fellow in for the intermediate film course VES 150 in the spring...