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: 15th July 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”

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.

Ecofiction as Epiphany

Introduction to the Cinematic Mise-en-scène A Masterclass with Dr. Soudhamini 10th to 13th May  2024 in Auroville  OVERVIEW:Between climate denial and dystopia lies a fertile space for self-sensitization which this short course facilitates through the grammar of the cinematic mise-en-scène.  If the Japanese haiku is about distilled observation and startling juxtapositions – akin structurally to theContinue reading “Ecofiction as Epiphany”