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.
Category Archives: Residency
Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh
The workshop from 12th July to 8th September 2025 in Ladakh focuses on deep ecology and documentary filmmaking. Participants will explore storytelling through personal and cultural perspectives, producing short documentaries while engaging with local communities and landscapes. Open to diverse participants with an interest in documentary arts.
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”
Directing Actors and Performing for Camera
Learn the dynamics of the actor-director relationship towards conceiving and catalyzing convincing performances.
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) “
Hands On Documentary Film Workshop @ Ladakh
Creative Documentary Practice
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”
Residency with Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar
In Auroville, from 7th to 10th November, 2022 In the pristine naturally acoustic environs of Auroville, Ustadji will demonstrate Dhrupad Gayaki and RudraVeena along with two of his accompanists, on Tanpura and Pakhawaj. Ustadji warmly invites musicians and students of all arts to interact with him on conceptual and experiential level. For 4 days withContinue reading “Residency with Ustad Mohi Bahauddin Dagar”
Auroville Film Institute 