Exploring Continuity Principles in Cinema? 30th April 2024, 14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online OVERVIEW:This session would illustrate the historical stages of development of various aspects of Continuity Principles, mainly practiced with great success in classical Hollywood era. These principles got gradually adapted, modified, challenged in other cultures of filmmaking in the world. It would beContinue reading “What is CONTINUITY?”
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The Documentary Impulse
With Deb Kamal Ganguly25th to 29th March, 2024 ; 14:30 to 18:30 IST_Online Duration: 5 days, 4 hours per day COURSE OVERVIEW:This course is designed primarily for the regular participants as one of the initial modules for the one-year multi space documentary program offered by AVFI. At the same time the course is also offeredContinue reading “The Documentary Impulse”
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”
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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”
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Time and Cinema
Specially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciation 25th & 26th November 2023, 14:30 to 19:00 IST _Online.Total contact hours: 08/10 COURSE OVERVIEW:The relationship between ‘time’ and the form of cinema has been one of the key questions that have captured the thought and imagination of filmmakers and film theorists since the early daysContinue reading “Time and Cinema “
Abbas Kiarostami: The ‘Face of Poetry’ at the ‘Window of Cinema’
Poetry and Cinema SeriesSpecially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciation7th & 8th October 2023, 14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online. COURSE OVERVIEW:Aesthetes, especially cinema aesthetes often wonder what poetry is in cinema. What makes a film poetic; how filmmakers create poetic masterpieces? Within the discourse of Poetry and Cinema – the name of AbbasContinue reading “Abbas Kiarostami: The ‘Face of Poetry’ at the ‘Window of Cinema’”
Mani Kaul and Search for New Cinematic Form through Theater: Ashad Ka Ek Din
Indian New Wave SeriesSpecially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciationwith Deb Kamal Ganguly. 2nd & 3rd September 2023, 14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online. Course OverviewIndian New Wave Cinema, which flourished during 1970s, is considered as one of the most significant and exciting phases of cinematic creation in the long history of Indian cinema.Continue reading “Mani Kaul and Search for New Cinematic Form through Theater: Ashad Ka Ek Din”
STUDY CIRCLE – 15th – 19th May, 2023
Venue: Auroville Film Institute, India Space, Bharat NivasTime: 6:00 to 7:30 pm Mon |15-05-23| ScreeningThe Society of Spectacle (Guy Debord; 1974, 88mins.)You don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism. Satirical and self-critical filmadaptation of Guy Debord’s theoretical masterpiece, and a frontal attack onthe all-encompassing spectacle we live in. Tues |16-05-23 | ScreeningIntroduction to the End ofContinue reading “STUDY CIRCLE – 15th – 19th May, 2023”
Real Sites to Cinematic Spaces
Analyzing the mechanics of a spatial constructs in cinema…
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”
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