Poetry and Cinema SeriesSpecially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciation7th & 8th October 2023, 14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online. COURSE OVERVIEW:Aesthetes, especially cinema aesthetes often wonder what poetry is in cinema. What makes a film poetic; how filmmakers create poetic masterpieces? Within the discourse of Poetry and Cinema – the name of AbbasContinue reading “Abbas Kiarostami: The ‘Face of Poetry’ at the ‘Window of Cinema’”
Category Archives: Film Analysis
Mani Kaul and Search for New Cinematic Form through Theater: Ashad Ka Ek Din
Indian New Wave SeriesSpecially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciationwith Deb Kamal Ganguly. 2nd & 3rd September 2023, 14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online. Course OverviewIndian New Wave Cinema, which flourished during 1970s, is considered as one of the most significant and exciting phases of cinematic creation in the long history of Indian cinema.Continue reading “Mani Kaul and Search for New Cinematic Form through Theater: Ashad Ka Ek Din”
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”
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