Join us for a 4-day masterclass with Soudhamini, exploring how video installation expands filmmaking into a fluid, multi-vectoral field. Moving beyond the single frame, narrative becomes spatial, rhythmic and polyphonic. Drawing on Deleuzian multiplicity, the workshop opens new attentional modes, challenging habitual gazes and inviting more inclusive, liberated ways of seeing.
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Body, Network, Archive and Mediated Life: Approaching Contemporary Art Practices
2.30 to 4.30 pm | 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th December, 2025 | ONLINE & PRESENCIAL by Debkamal Ganguly OverviewThis series of sessions examines how the body, the network, and the archive operate as interlinked terrains in contemporary mediated experience. The sessions explore the body as a site of transmission, inscription, and transformation, shaped byContinue reading “Body, Network, Archive and Mediated Life: Approaching Contemporary Art Practices”
Truth in Fiction with T.J. Gnanavel
Organised under Open Space Documentary Arts Programme (OSDA) programme as a tribute to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on his 70th Mahaparinirvan Diwas 6 December 2025 | Online | 6:30 PM onwards Facilitated by Raj & Logeshwaran Register via WhatsApp This talk is part of the ongoing AVFI series Truth in Fiction, which explores how filmmakers, writers,Continue reading “Truth in Fiction with T.J. Gnanavel”
The Media we inhabit / Like a fish in the water
An appraisal facilitated by Rrivu Laha 27.11.25 | 10:30 am | AVFI, building no. 1, reve area, outer ring rd, near hemp planet, opp. aroma garden (No registration required) If anyone ever discovered water, it was not a fish. Take the fish out of the water, though, and it begins to know what the waterContinue reading “The Media we inhabit / Like a fish in the water”
DOCUMENTARY STILL & MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
On-Site Exploration as part of Open Space Documentary Arts programme. OverviewA two-day learning session in a sacred grove environment, focusing on perception, attention, and image-making in situ.DAY 1 — EVENINGOrientation & Context* Introduction to the site* Readings on the Keezputtupet Sacred Grove and the Guardian Deities of Tamil NaduThe evening visit establishes the sensory andContinue reading “DOCUMENTARY STILL & MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY”
Craft, Ritual and Cinema: Mani Kaul’s Mati Manas
Specially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciation as a part of Open Space Documentary Arts Programme. 29th-30th November 2025_ONLINE14:30 to 18:30 IST with Deb Kamal Ganguly COURSE OVERVIEW :Hovering curiously between the spectrums of documentary and fiction in different intensities, Mati Manas (Mind of Clay, 1985, 92 min) by Mani Kaul is a uniqueContinue reading “Craft, Ritual and Cinema: Mani Kaul’s Mati Manas”
Documentary as Situated Inquiry: Research Methodology towards Audio-visual Art
14:30 hrs IST, 5th, 6th & 7th November, 2025 | Online This course explores the evolving relationship between documentary practice and the social sciences, proposing the filmic process itself as a mode of inquiry. The documentary practitioner enters the world like an ethnographer, observing, participating, interpreting, but with a medium that feels and thinks throughContinue reading “Documentary as Situated Inquiry: Research Methodology towards Audio-visual Art”
100 Years of Ritwik Ghatak
On the occasion of100 Years of Ritwik Ghatak (4 Nov 1925-6 Feb 1976)Join us for the first STUDY CIRCLE of Module 2, OSDA, 25.15:00 IST, 4 November 2025 with the screening ofAjantrik (Unmechanical / Not a machine / The Pathetic fallacy) followed byDiscussion & Tea 17:30Cinema & I (Select readings)at Auroville Film Institute (AVFI)1 OuterContinue reading “100 Years of Ritwik Ghatak”
Composing Reality: Structures of Mediation in Documentary Editing
Cinema Praxis Series14:30 hrs IST, 8th & 9th November, 2025, 02 days OVERVIEW:This course approaches documentary editing as a way of composing the impressions of reality, towards emerging discourse and experience, through discovering within the images the rhythms and contradictions of the world itself. Every cut, pause, continuation, or rupture becomes a thought about: howContinue reading “Composing Reality: Structures of Mediation in Documentary Editing”
Temporality and the Sensation of Cinematic Time
Cinema Praxis Series23-24 August, 2025, 14.30 – 18.20 IST, online OVERVIEW:The relationship between cinema and time has always been a central enigma of the moving image.More than any other art form, cinema is bound to temporality, not simply recording events, butimpressing upon us the sensation of time itself. Time in cinema is never only aContinue reading “Temporality and the Sensation of Cinematic Time”
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