A Michael Chekhov – based exploration workshop for creative practitioners 16th to 25th March, 2026 in Auroville with Rukshana Tabassum & Alok Arora What if story did not begin in the mind, but in breath, weight, rhythm, and sensation?What if characters arrived not by effort, but by listening? The Inner Unfolding is an immersive, bodyContinue reading “The Inner Unfolding: From Self to Story”
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Adivasiyat
Come gather in song and dance, in the rhythm of the Madal (drum) and the melody of the Bansuri (flute), and renew the collective pledge for the continuity of our Adivasiyat — the living traditions, languages, and deep ecological wisdom of our peoples.
Auroville Convivial: Live Talks
(An Auroville Timelines Project) English | Français | தமிழ் Date: Auroville Week (21 – 28 Feb 2026) Organizer: Auroville Film Institute Platform: Online (Live via Google Meet) Global Slots: Region Slot 1 (Afternoon) Slot 2 (Evening) India (IST) 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Europe (CET) 10:30 AM – 12:30 PMContinue reading “Auroville Convivial: Live Talks”
Multiplicity and the Expanded Screen
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.
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”
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