STUDY CIRCLE – 24th – 28th April, 2023

The Fat and the Lean (1961, 16mins ), Roman PolanskiA small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. Tues / 25-04-23 / ScreeningAu Hasard Bresson (1967, 32 mins.), Theodor KotullaDocumentary Short FilmContinue reading “STUDY CIRCLE – 24th – 28th April, 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’”

The Encounter with the Real

The Praxis of Short Non-fiction – Online, 27th November 2022. (Specially Curated Session of Appreciation and Analysis of Non-fictions of Shorter Duration) PrerequisitesNone Zone of InterestParticipants are welcome who are interested primarily about creating a relation with the reality of a given space through moving images and sounds, within a limited period of time. ThatContinue reading “The Encounter with the Real”

Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s -Jukti, Takko aar Goppo

Reason, Arguments and Stories (1974) with Debkamal GangulyOn 24th and 25th September 2022;14:30 to 18:30 IST;Online What might be the self-chosen destiny of a modernist artist in a post-colonial condition, who over the decades of his creative endeavours always remained as an anarchic, yet ‘subjunctive’ critic of the seemingly naturalized affair of the post-coloniality itself? TheContinue reading “Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s -Jukti, Takko aar Goppo”

Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy

with Debkamal GangulyOn 10th & 11th; 17th & 18th September 2022; 14:30 to 18:30 IST;Online Emergences of India’s journey as independent nation-state for three quarters of a century is an apt moment to look back to the early years of independence in South Asia, an era marked by optimism and scarred by the great humanContinue reading “Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy”

SEPARATION – Analysis and Filmmaking Workshop

Is there a film in you? Find it out with Kamal Swaroop.