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.
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Craft, Ritual and Cinema: Mani Kaul’s Mati Manas
Specially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciation as a part of Open Space Documentary Arts Programme. 29th-30th November 2025_ONLINE14:30 to 18:30 IST with Deb Kamal Ganguly COURSE OVERVIEW :Hovering curiously between the spectrums of documentary and fiction in different intensities, Mati Manas (Mind of Clay, 1985, 92 min) by Mani Kaul is a uniqueContinue reading “Craft, Ritual and Cinema: Mani Kaul’s Mati Manas”
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”
“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
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.
OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME, 2025
Starting 12 July 2025 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. OVERVIEW:Open Space Documentary Arts Programme finds its relevance in the proliferating new media environment, where the formContinue reading “OPEN SPACE DOCUMENTARY ARTS PROGRAMME, 2025”
Hands On Filmmaking Workshop at Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj
with Kamal Swaroop | From 11th January to 13th February 2025 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW: Context: (What is Maha Kumbh) The Maha Kumbh Mela, is a religious congregation and the world’s largest peaceful gathering, attended by millions. At the heart of this epic festival lies a symbol steeped in cosmic significance — the “Kumbh” or sacred potContinue reading “Hands On Filmmaking Workshop at Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj”
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”
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