2.30 to 4.30 pm | 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th December, 2025 | ONLINE & PRESENCIAL by Debkamal Ganguly OverviewThis series of sessions examines how the body, the network, and the archive operate as interlinked terrains in contemporary mediated experience. The sessions explore the body as a site of transmission, inscription, and transformation, shaped byContinue reading “Body, Network, Archive and Mediated Life: Approaching Contemporary Art Practices”
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Truth in Fiction with T.J. Gnanavel
Organised under Open Space Documentary Arts Programme (OSDA) programme as a tribute to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on his 70th Mahaparinirvan Diwas 6 December 2025 | Online | 6:30 PM onwards Facilitated by Raj & Logeshwaran Register via WhatsApp This talk is part of the ongoing AVFI series Truth in Fiction, which explores how filmmakers, writers,Continue reading “Truth in Fiction with T.J. Gnanavel”
The Media we inhabit / Like a fish in the water
An appraisal facilitated by Rrivu Laha 27.11.25 | 10:30 am | AVFI, building no. 1, reve area, outer ring rd, near hemp planet, opp. aroma garden (No registration required) If anyone ever discovered water, it was not a fish. Take the fish out of the water, though, and it begins to know what the waterContinue reading “The Media we inhabit / Like a fish in the water”
DOCUMENTARY STILL & MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
On-Site Exploration as part of Open Space Documentary Arts programme. OverviewA two-day learning session in a sacred grove environment, focusing on perception, attention, and image-making in situ.DAY 1 — EVENINGOrientation & Context* Introduction to the site* Readings on the Keezputtupet Sacred Grove and the Guardian Deities of Tamil NaduThe evening visit establishes the sensory andContinue reading “DOCUMENTARY STILL & MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY”
Composing Reality: Structures of Mediation in Documentary Editing
Cinema Praxis Series14:30 hrs IST, 8th & 9th November, 2025, 02 days OVERVIEW:This course approaches documentary editing as a way of composing the impressions of reality, towards emerging discourse and experience, through discovering within the images the rhythms and contradictions of the world itself. Every cut, pause, continuation, or rupture becomes a thought about: howContinue reading “Composing Reality: Structures of Mediation in Documentary Editing”
Temporality and the Sensation of Cinematic Time
Cinema Praxis Series23-24 August, 2025, 14.30 – 18.20 IST, online OVERVIEW:The relationship between cinema and time has always been a central enigma of the moving image.More than any other art form, cinema is bound to temporality, not simply recording events, butimpressing upon us the sensation of time itself. Time in cinema is never only aContinue reading “Temporality and the Sensation of Cinematic Time”
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.
LATENT CONCURRENCIES
A BETA PRESENTATION BY THE BATCH OF 2024 OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME15, 16, 17 NOV, 2024 11 AM ONWARDS LATENT CONCURRENCIES is a participatory new media installation; having a database consisting of several stand-alone documentary artworks from various stages of development. It showcases two distinct geographic and socio-cultural environments – Auroville and Ladakh – invitingContinue reading “LATENT CONCURRENCIES”
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”
Melancholia in Godard’s Film Socialisme as Foucauldian Meta-subjective Dissent against Governmentality – by Debkamal ganguly
16:30 IST @ Auroville Film Institute, India Space, Bharat Nivas also, Online streaming via G-Meet. Overview:This presentation has been part of recently concluded international ‘Foucault Congress’, Kolkata Chapter, focussing on Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality in the context of South Asia. In this presentation with reference to Jean-Luc Godard’s post-cinematic work ‘Film Socialisme’, some gesturesContinue reading “Melancholia in Godard’s Film Socialisme as Foucauldian Meta-subjective Dissent against Governmentality – by Debkamal ganguly”
Auroville Film Institute 