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”
Category Archives: Post Graduate Diploma, Filmmaking Course, 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”
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?”
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”
Open Space Documentary Arts
If you are interested for 2025 program write to us at filminstitute@auroville.org 1 YEAR PG DIPLOMA IN DOCUMENTARY ARTS Title: OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMMEStarting : March 2024 Modality: Multi-site programme incorporating experiential learning modules in Auroville-Pondicherry and Ladakh. Multidisciplinary, multimodal, dynamically designed, integrative, interactive and application-oriented programme. OVERVIEW: In an increasingly warring world withinContinue reading “Open Space Documentary Arts”
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