Category Archives: Hands on

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.

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”

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”

Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh

24th June to 17th August 2024 (55 Days) OVERVIEW:Context: Located across a trans-Himalayan high-altitude desert, Ladakh today, as the northern frontier of India, balances a popular imagination between a pristine monastic spirituality and international borders. Historically a crossroad between the Tibetan Himalayas and west Asia, Central and sub-continental Asia, Ladakh has been a witness toContinue reading “Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh”

Ecofiction as Epiphany

Introduction to the Cinematic Mise-en-scène A Masterclass with Dr. Soudhamini 10th to 13th May  2024 in Auroville  OVERVIEW:Between climate denial and dystopia lies a fertile space for self-sensitization which this short course facilitates through the grammar of the cinematic mise-en-scène.  If the Japanese haiku is about distilled observation and startling juxtapositions – akin structurally to theContinue reading “Ecofiction as Epiphany”

3E – Explore, Experiment, Express

3E-Explore, Experiment, ExpressA 5- weeks filmmaking workshopWith R V Ramani ONLINE – ONSITE BLENDED MODALITY SCHEDULE 108th to 10th January 2024 – Online – 10am to 1pm – Interactions, Film Exercises, Reviews11th to 17th January 2024 – Research, Film Exercises, Travel (Participants reach Auroville by 17th Jan) SCHEDULE 2Residential Workshop in Auroville (2 weeks)18th toContinue reading “3E – Explore, Experiment, Express”

THE MIME OF THINGS

14th April – 24th April, 2023 @ Auroville THE MIME OF THINGS is a ten plus one day (full day) course from 14th to 24th April, 2023 with Drupad Gaonkar (a.k.a Blip) on the subjective aspects of objective THINGS that we encounter in our day to day life and how Mimes use them as MetaphorsContinue reading “THE MIME OF THINGS”

Still to  Motion Photography (basics) 

In Auroville With Rrivu Laha (Cinematographer & Filmmaker) DATES:6th March to 29th May 2023.  Mondays & Thursdays; 10:30am to 12:30pmTotal 24 sessions;  2 sessions a week – for 12 weeks over 3 months.  COURSE OVERVIEW: This course is particularly aimed for beginners of Motion Picture Photography. With this perspective, starting with still photography, participants willContinue reading “Still to  Motion Photography (basics) “