Tag Archives: film studies

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”

The Art of Pitching, Impact & Distribution

Creative Retreat with Irena Taskovski: award-winning producer & distributor; CEO -Taskovski Films.In Auroville3rd to 7th January 2024 OVERVIEW:Auroville Film Institute is delighted to announce a creative retreat with Irena Taskovski – for emerging producers and directors of creative documentaries – for their project development. Emerging filmmakers often have great energy, ideas and access. But, sometimesContinue reading “The Art of Pitching, Impact & Distribution”

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”

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’”

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”

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 Ajantrik (The Pathetic Fallacy) 1958.

3rd & 4th September 2022; 14:30 to 18:30 IST_ ONLINE. What might be the relevance of studying a relatively unknown and unseen film made by Indian master Ritwik Ghatak, his first masterpiece Ajantrik (The Pathetic Fallacy, 1958), almost six and half decades later? Beyond historical curiosity, the study of this film may reveal that possiblyContinue reading “Reading Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik (The Pathetic Fallacy) 1958.”

SEPARATION – Analysis and Filmmaking Workshop

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