3rd August, 2025, 01 day, 04-05 hours OVERVIEW:This intensive online session would explore how cinematic practice can construct, encounter, and transform space, not merely as background, but as an active participant in the nonfictional experience. At the intersection of observation, conceptualisation, cinematographic choices, and the rhythmic textures of editing and sound, this course examines howContinue reading “Spatial Poetics in Nonfiction Cinema”
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“There shall be a cinema studio, a cinema school…”— The Mother, 23 June 1965 On 26 June 2025, sixty years and three days later, we offer this report not as a declaration of arrival—but as a quiet marker of emergence. What was once envisioned is now in motion, shaped by love, learning, and the labourContinue reading
Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh
The workshop from 12th July to 8th September 2025 in Ladakh focuses on deep ecology and documentary filmmaking. Participants will explore storytelling through personal and cultural perspectives, producing short documentaries while engaging with local communities and landscapes. Open to diverse participants with an interest in documentary arts.
OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME, 2025
Starting 12 July 2025 1-year immersive diploma programme by the Auroville Film Institute in collaboration with Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh . It is a multi-site, dynamic, production oriented diploma, incorporating experiential learning modules in Auroville-Pondicherry and Ladakh. OVERVIEW:Open Space Documentary Arts Programme finds its relevance in the proliferating new media environment, where the formContinue reading “OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME, 2025”
Hands On Filmmaking Workshop at Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj
with Kamal Swaroop | From 11th January to 13th February 2025 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW: Context: (What is Maha Kumbh) The Maha Kumbh Mela, is a religious congregation and the world’s largest peaceful gathering, attended by millions. At the heart of this epic festival lies a symbol steeped in cosmic significance — the “Kumbh” or sacred potContinue reading “Hands On Filmmaking Workshop at Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj”
LATENT CONCURRENCIES
A BETA PRESENTATION BY THE BATCH OF 2024 OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME15, 16, 17 NOV, 2024 11 AM ONWARDS LATENT CONCURRENCIES is a participatory new media installation; having a database consisting of several stand-alone documentary artworks from various stages of development. It showcases two distinct geographic and socio-cultural environments – Auroville and Ladakh – invitingContinue reading “LATENT CONCURRENCIES”
Gesture & Posture
From 19 Nov to 23 Dec 2024 _ ONLINE, with Drupad Gaonkar Mondays and Tuesdays, 19:00 to 21:00 hrs IST COURSE OVERVIEW :The world and life in it get an aesthetic meaning from the rich play of gestures and postures.We “read” gestures, from the slightest movement of facial muscles to the most powerful movements of massesContinue reading “Gesture & Posture”
Film-Philosophy with ‘Diary of a Country Priest’ by Robert Bresson
Specially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciation 9th-10th November 2024_ONLINE14:30 to 18:30 IST with Deb Kamal Ganguly COURSE OVERVIEW :In the history of cinema, it is a rarity that the creators like Robert Bresson arrived and illuminated the possibility of cinematic creation as unique artistic and philosophical achievement on behalf of the frailty ofContinue reading “Film-Philosophy with ‘Diary of a Country Priest’ by Robert Bresson”
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 OverviewWhat 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/collectiveContinue reading “Space, Time, Subjectivity in Cinema”
Melancholia in Godard’s Film Socialisme as Foucauldian Meta-subjective Dissent against Governmentality – by Debkamal ganguly
16:30 IST @ Auroville Film Institute, India Space, Bharat Nivas also, Online streaming via G-Meet. Overview:This presentation has been part of recently concluded international ‘Foucault Congress’, Kolkata Chapter, focussing on Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality in the context of South Asia. In this presentation with reference to Jean-Luc Godard’s post-cinematic work ‘Film Socialisme’, some gesturesContinue reading “Melancholia in Godard’s Film Socialisme as Foucauldian Meta-subjective Dissent against Governmentality – by Debkamal ganguly”
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