(An Auroville Timelines Project) English | Français | தமிழ் Date: Auroville Week (21 – 28 Feb 2026) Organizer: Auroville Film Institute Platform: Online (Live via Google Meet) Global Slots: Region Slot 1 (Afternoon) Slot 2 (Evening) India (IST) 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Europe (CET) 10:30 AM – 12:30 PMContinue reading “Auroville Convivial: Live Talks”
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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.
“There shall be a cinema studio, a cinema school…”— The Mother, 23 June 1965 On 26 June 2025, sixty years and three days later, we offer this report not as a declaration of arrival—but as a quiet marker of emergence. What was once envisioned is now in motion, shaped by love, learning, and the labourContinue reading
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”
Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh
24th June to 17th August 2024 (55 Days) OVERVIEW:Context: Located across a trans-Himalayan high-altitude desert, Ladakh today, as the northern frontier of India, balances a popular imagination between a pristine monastic spirituality and international borders. Historically a crossroad between the Tibetan Himalayas and west Asia, Central and sub-continental Asia, Ladakh has been a witness toContinue reading “Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh”
Macbeth in Spotlight
Theatre & Cinema series 08th to 10th March 2024 _Online. 20:00 to 23:00 IST | 15:30 to 18:30 CET | 09:30 to 12:30 EST | 14:30 to 17:30 GMT OVERVIEW: “Macbeth in Spotlight” aims to understand why Shakespeare’s voice still echoes through us endlessly across diverse mediums, cultures and minds, stirring something profound within usContinue reading “Macbeth in Spotlight”
Open Space Documentary Arts
If you are interested for 2025 program write to us at filminstitute@auroville.org 1 YEAR PG DIPLOMA IN DOCUMENTARY ARTS Title: OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMMEStarting : March 2024 Modality: Multi-site programme incorporating experiential learning modules in Auroville-Pondicherry and Ladakh. Multidisciplinary, multimodal, dynamically designed, integrative, interactive and application-oriented programme. OVERVIEW: In an increasingly warring world withinContinue reading “Open Space Documentary Arts”
Contemporising – Katha Sarit Sagara
A Creative Reading and Writing Workshop With Kamal Swaroop12 Weekends, Online. Starting 17th February, 2024, onwards14:30 to 18:30 IST. OVERVIEW: In the 11th-century kingdom of Kashmir, the king and his son clashed for the throne, chaos reigned. In desperation, Queen Suryavati handled the crumbling state machinery, her distress deepening.It was then that the court poet andContinue reading “Contemporising – Katha Sarit Sagara”
STUDY CIRCLE – 1st – 4th May, 2023
Study circle, 6:00 to 7:30 pm at the Auroville Film Institute, India Space, Bharat Nivas. Mon01-05-23ReadingJungian Studies – ProjectionsExploring heroes and villains within; and identifying symbols of personal value. Tues02-05-23ScreeningDangerous Method (2004, 99 mins.), David CronenbergA look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. Wed03-05-23ScreeningPoetry and CinemaContinue reading “STUDY CIRCLE – 1st – 4th May, 2023”
Film-Philosophy with ‘Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall His Past Lives’
Analysis, appreciation, concept formation and film-philosophy. 6th & 7th May 2023_ONLINE14:30 to 18:30 IST with Deb Kamal Ganguly COURSE OVERVIEW :Defying the standard tropes of filmic experience in terms of character, narrative progression, the experiences of the films primarily in the works of several important directors of New Asian cinema are situated upon a renewed approachContinue reading “Film-Philosophy with ‘Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall His Past Lives’”
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