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”
Tag Archives: Auroville Film Institute
Photography workshop
2-day photography workshop in Phyang & Likir, Ladakh (5–6 Sep 2026) with Ayan Biswas & Sanket Ray. Explore place, landscape & visual narratives. Fee ₹3500. Apply now.
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”
After the Epic: Forest, Face, Time in Kanchana Sita
Postponed to 27th and 28th June 2026 | 14.30 IST onwards | 04 hours per day (with one break of 20 min.) Participant profileThis course is designed for cinephiles, students of film, researchers of mythology and visual culture, and artists interested in the relation between cinematic form, civilizational memory, the itihaas as a creative remembranceContinue reading “After the Epic: Forest, Face, Time in Kanchana Sita”
Memory and Ground of Life: Reading Andrei Tarkovsky with Mirror
Celebrating half a century of the life of the film, the course will examine Mirror not merely as a memoir on celluloid, but as the director’s rigorous artistic and creative effort to locate and restore his ground of life. By navigating the fluid boundaries between memories, dreams, reality, and history, participants will see how Tarkovsky uses cinematic contemplation to transform personal existence into a universal spiritual inquiry, especially in a time of heightened bureaucratic materialism of erstwhile USSR.
The course would delve into the creative evolution of the film, with the references of Tarkovsky’s own script and diary entries. This transition from raw memory to structured image and fluid sensations offers a rare window into the alchemy of Tarkovsky’s creative process, dissolving the boundaries between lived experience and cinematic form.
Ultimately, the course would underscore Tarkovsky’s belief that without memory, without yearning for the memory, without the conscious engagement with the traces of the lost time, human beings tend to lose their ground of ethical existence, making Mirror an essential human document for preservation of the possibility of ethical becoming of the self.
Béla Tarr, the Hungarian Plain, and the Endurance of the Long Take
28th February and 1st March | ONLINE | with Debkamal Ganguly Course OverviewThis two-day online intensive explores the cinema of Béla Tarr as a sustained philosophical inquiry into time, space, and existence after the erosion of metaphysical and historical certainties. Centered primarily on Sátántangó (1994) and The Turin Horse (2011), the course approaches Tarr’s distinctiveContinue reading “Béla Tarr, the Hungarian Plain, and the Endurance of the Long Take”
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.
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”
100 Years of Ritwik Ghatak
On the occasion of100 Years of Ritwik Ghatak (4 Nov 1925-6 Feb 1976)Join us for the first STUDY CIRCLE of Module 2, OSDA, 25.15:00 IST, 4 November 2025 with the screening ofAjantrik (Unmechanical / Not a machine / The Pathetic fallacy) followed byDiscussion & Tea 17:30Cinema & I (Select readings)at Auroville Film Institute (AVFI)1 OuterContinue reading “100 Years of Ritwik Ghatak”