With Deb Kamal Ganguly
25th to 29th March, 2024 ; 14:30 to 18:30 IST_Online
Duration: 5 days, 4 hours per day
COURSE OVERVIEW:
This course is designed primarily for the regular participants as one of the initial modules for the one-year multi space documentary program offered by AVFI. At the same time the course is also offered for online participants who also would have the opportunity to have a glimpse of one-year long course. The course would contain readings from some of the key texts on the notion of documentary cinema, along with collective viewing and analysis of important films, sequences from the history of documentary cinema. The participants would be encouraged to read/see the films and conceptualize further from the references of the seminal texts, collectively read and discussed in the sessions. The course would not follow a strict historical timeline of documentary cinema, but would tend to act primarily as triggers to relate to the reality around embedded with nascent ideas of documentary.
Some of the important notions which would be put up for conceptual engagement:
Document
Representation/presentation
Telling/showing
Spatial and temporal dimension
Voice of the documentarian
MODE OF TEACHING:
In the session, sequences from the film will be shown and discussed in depth. Also reading material will be shared during the course.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE :
Participants are welcome who carry a critical and creative urge to relate to the world of documentary and its relation to different aspects and nuances about the reality, we are immersed in.
FACULTY PROFILE:
An alumnus from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata, DebKamal Ganguly is an independent filmmaker, researcher and teacher of cinematic arts. He has taught for 08 years (2012-2020) and designed curriculum in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, in the departments of Film Editing, Film Direction and Screen Studies; and as a guest faculty in National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, Flame University, Pune, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar. Ganguly’s works have been published under special curator-ship from Lowave, Paris; his video art featured in the exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ and showcased in galleries of various cities of Europe and Asia. His films done in the capacity of editor, script-writer and sound designer have been shown in competitive sections of various international festivals and received recognition, including ‘Tiger Award for Shorts’ in Rotterdam (IFFR 2007). Ganguly has presented papers in various international and national seminars and conferences on various themes related to cinema, Deleuze studies, visual art, interfaces of art practices, translation studies, collective memory, Bengal studies, Media studies, pedagogy of cinema, film editing as a discipline, immersive sound etc including CARA-CILECT conference in Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg (2018), CILECT conference in VGIK, Moscow (2019), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (2019). He is a participant of an international project for artistic research involving BRICS countries, being the coordinator for India (2018).
BASELINE CONTRIBUTION TO CONFIRM PARTICIPATION:
₹ 1800 – For Participants from India and SAARC Nations
€ 50 – For Other International Participants
Voluntary Contribution for Aurovilians.
(We invite you to contribute over and above the baseline – voluntarily, if you wish)
CERTIFICATES:
Digital certificates of participation will be issued.
QUERIES:
For queries, if any, please write to: info@aurovillefilminstitute.com or call / message +91 9969879319 (whatsapp and telegram only)
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