Film Analysis

Real Sites to Cinematic Spaces

Analyzing the mechanics of a spatial constructs in cinema…

Film-Philosophy with ‘Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall His Past Lives’

Analysis, appreciation, concept formation and film-philosophy. 6th & 7th May 2023_ONLINE14:30 to 18:30 IST with Deb Kamal Ganguly COURSE OVERVIEW :Defying the standard tropes of filmic experience in terms of character, narrative progression, the experiences of the films primarily in the works of several important directors of New Asian cinema are situated upon a renewed approachContinue reading “Film-Philosophy with ‘Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall His Past Lives’”

The Alluring Melodrama of Pedro Almodovar

SHOT BY SHOT with Anupam – April weekends_online

STUDY CIRCLE – 13th – 18th March, 2023

Film Institute @ Auroville is delighted to introduce an open study circle, 5:00 to 6:30 pm at the Auroville Film Institute, India Space, Bharat Nivas. The Study Circle is designed in concurrence with the ongoing research and academic pursuits of the Film Institute Fellows. The sessions are open for all. Upcoming Week’s Schedule: *Note that venueContinue reading “STUDY CIRCLE – 13th – 18th March, 2023”

Film-Philosophy with ‘Once upon a time in Anatolia’

Appreciation, concept formation and film-philosophy.

Acting in Cinema

A 15 Days Workshop for Actors and Directors with Pushpendra Singhin Auroville from 20th March to 2nd April 2023. OVERVIEW : Delighted to offer a 15 days workshop in Auroville for cine actors and directors – to be executed in 2 units – with Pushpendra Singh. The 1st Unit will be theoretical and analytical. TheContinue reading “Acting in Cinema”

Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s -Jukti, Takko aar Goppo

Reason, Arguments and Stories (1974) with Debkamal GangulyOn 24th and 25th September 2022;14:30 to 18:30 IST;Online What might be the self-chosen destiny of a modernist artist in a post-colonial condition, who over the decades of his creative endeavours always remained as an anarchic, yet ‘subjunctive’ critic of the seemingly naturalized affair of the post-coloniality itself? TheContinue reading “Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s -Jukti, Takko aar Goppo”

Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy

with Debkamal GangulyOn 10th & 11th; 17th & 18th September 2022; 14:30 to 18:30 IST;Online Emergences of India’s journey as independent nation-state for three quarters of a century is an apt moment to look back to the early years of independence in South Asia, an era marked by optimism and scarred by the great humanContinue reading “Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy”

Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik (The Pathetic Fallacy) 1958.

3rd & 4th September 2022; 14:30 to 18:30 IST_ ONLINE. What might be the relevance of studying a relatively unknown and unseen film made by Indian master Ritwik Ghatak, his first masterpiece Ajantrik (The Pathetic Fallacy, 1958), almost six and half decades later? Beyond historical curiosity, the study of this film may reveal that possiblyContinue reading “Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik (The Pathetic Fallacy) 1958.”

Space in Cinema; Time in Architecture

Interdisciplinary exploration of cinema and architecture.