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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Documentary as Situated Inquiry: Research Methodology towards Audio-visual Art
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”
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”
Spatial Poetics in Nonfiction Cinema
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”
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”
Film your thoughts on lockdown times (second edition)
This workshop from 11th to 17th May 2020, will familiarise the participants with the basics of media and audio-visual storytelling – to enable them to produce their own stories within the confines of their own spaces; using handy equipment like personal computers, cell phones or any other cameras/ gadgets readily available at home.
Auroville Film Institute 