Space, Time, Subjectivity in Cinema

(With special emphasis on Documentary)
as a part of OSDA and Hands on Filmmaking programme, 24

15:00 – 18.30 hrs IST – 6th and 7th of July, 2024

Overview
What is cinema, if it is not accumulation of blocks of space-time manifestations, perceived by camera-eye, heard by the recorder-ear, and arranged by some degree of individuated/collective consciousness! When encountered by a dramatic change of landscape, culture and people, the filmmaker often has to rely on the primary resources at her disposal, those of seeing and hearing, comparing and imagining, often trying to find a position for herself, which can be acknowledged in varying degrees both by the self and communities of different definition and different orders of presence.

A two-day course devised almost from the ‘top of the world’, the little Tibet, Ladakh, poses these issues fundamental to the learning and the understanding of cinema – the articulation of ‘cinematic space’ through modes of fragmentation and assemblage, the curation of various kinds of rhythms from the reality to create the experience of the pulses of ‘cinematic time’, finally expressed through a continuously ruminating position of ‘subjectivity’. Moreover the empathetic modes of cinema often make it palpable that the field of subjectivity is not only about the mind-space of the director/artist but also about the entities from which the selective perceptions are continuously being crystallized into ‘images’ constituting the cinema.

Mode of Interaction: Online

Faculty: Deb Kamal Ganguly
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:
₹ 1000 – For Indian Participants
€ 25 – For International Participants
Nill for OSDA and Hands on Filmmaking programme|24, participants
(We invite you to contribute over and above the baseline – voluntarily, if you wish)

Bank details:
ICICI Bank, Auroville Branch
A/c name: Film Institute Auroville
A/c no: 163105000766
IFSC – ICIC0001631
MICR – 605229004

UPI ID : filminstituteauroville.ibz@icici