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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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”
Psychology and Cinema: Through a Glass Darkly
Film Analysis and Film Appreciation8th and 9th June, 2024 | ONLINE OVERVIEW:The cinema universe of the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman attained unprecedented artistic and expressive brilliance with the film Through a Glass Darkly (1961), the first offering of the trilogy with the unusual modernist thematic of ‘God’s silence’.Exploring the psychological depths of the femaleContinue reading “Psychology and Cinema: Through a Glass Darkly”
What is CONTINUITY?
Exploring Continuity Principles in Cinema? 30th April 2024, 14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online OVERVIEW:This session would illustrate the historical stages of development of various aspects of Continuity Principles, mainly practiced with great success in classical Hollywood era. These principles got gradually adapted, modified, challenged in other cultures of filmmaking in the world. It would beContinue reading “What is CONTINUITY?”
What is a SHOT?
With Deb Kamal Ganguly16th April, 2024 ; 14:30 to 18:30 IST_Online Duration: 4 hours COURSE OVERVIEW:What is a shot?Though the definition of ‘a shot’ may seem quite obvious to most to begin with, the session would contain ideas and examples of various figurative, communicative and aesthetic aspects to ponder over the concept of a shot,Continue reading “What is a SHOT?”
The Documentary Impulse
With Deb Kamal Ganguly25th to 29th March, 2024 ; 14:30 to 18:30 IST_Online Duration: 5 days, 4 hours per day COURSE OVERVIEW:This course is designed primarily for the regular participants as one of the initial modules for the one-year multi space documentary program offered by AVFI. At the same time the course is also offeredContinue reading “The Documentary Impulse”
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”
Contemporising – Katha Sarit Sagara
A Creative Reading and Writing Workshop With Kamal Swaroop12 Weekends, Online. Starting 17th February, 2024, onwards14:30 to 18:30 IST. OVERVIEW: In the 11th-century kingdom of Kashmir, the king and his son clashed for the throne, chaos reigned. In desperation, Queen Suryavati handled the crumbling state machinery, her distress deepening.It was then that the court poet andContinue reading “Contemporising – Katha Sarit Sagara”
Time and Cinema
Specially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciation 25th & 26th November 2023, 14:30 to 19:00 IST _Online.Total contact hours: 08/10 COURSE OVERVIEW:The relationship between ‘time’ and the form of cinema has been one of the key questions that have captured the thought and imagination of filmmakers and film theorists since the early daysContinue reading “Time and Cinema “
Abbas Kiarostami: The ‘Face of Poetry’ at the ‘Window of Cinema’
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’”
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