7th-25th October 2026 | Kolkata, West Bengal A World of Ritual, Performance & SymbolsEdition 1, 2026 Overview Tracing Durga is a multidisciplinary artistic research retreat and workshop meant for artists, filmmakers, photographers, performers, designers, architects, sonic artists, curators, cultural practitioners, archivists and researchers drawn to ritual, public space, material culture, craft, labour, memory, sound, image,Continue reading “Artistic research retreat and workshop-Tracing Durga”
Category Archives: Residency
HANDS-ON DOCUMENTARY FILM WORKSHOP IN LADAKH
Landscape as Living Classroom • Documentary as Situated Inquiry From 1st September to 31st October 2026, By Auroville Film Institute, In collaboration with Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh OVERVIEWLadakh is a landscape of extraordinary ecological fragility, ancient civilisations, cultural memory and geopolitical significance, with rapidly changing contemporary realities. As development, tourism, climate change and resourceContinue reading “HANDS-ON DOCUMENTARY FILM WORKSHOP IN LADAKH”
OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME, 2026
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. Last Date of Application: 15 August 2026 OVERVIEW:The Open Space Documentary Arts (OSDA) Programme is a one-year, production-oriented diploma that combinesContinue reading “OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME, 2026”
The Inner Unfolding: From Self to Story
A Michael Chekhov – based exploration workshop for creative practitioners 16th to 25th March, 2026 in Auroville with Rukshana Tabassum & Alok Arora OVERVIEW:The Inner Unfolding is an immersive, body led exploration rooted in the Michael Chekhov Technique, designed for creative practitioners who wish to explore storytelling through body, imagination, and energy. Through Chekhov toolsContinue reading “The Inner Unfolding: From Self to Story”
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.
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”