Workshop: DIRECTING & PERFORMING WORKSHOP
Led by Anupam Barve 18-29 September 2023, Auroville Focusing on Actors & Camera Techniques Hosted by Auroville Film Institute Featured Image: Federico Fellini directs Giulietta Masina in “La Strada” (1954)
Tag: film
Directing Actors § Performing for Camera
with Anupam Barve
Analogue Photography Darkroom Workshop
Analogue Photography Darkroom Workshop Thursday 24th: 02.00 – 05.00pm Brief look at History of Photography & Introduction to Film Camera. Friday 25th: 09.00am – 02.00pm Film photo shoot (in your own time), 02.00pm – 05.00pm – Develop your roll of film. Saturday 26th: 09.00am – 12.30pm & 02.00 – 5.00pm (one can choose either of […]
Directing Actors & Performing For Camera
DIRECTING ACTORS & PERFORMING FOR CAMERA When: 18 – 29 September, 2023 Where: AUROVILLE Auroville FILM INSTITUTE
Screening: Ek Jagah Apni (A place of our own)
India, 2022, Dir. Ektara Collective w/ Manisha Soni, Muskan, Aakash Jamra, and others, Drama, 88mins, Hindi w/ English subtitles, Rated: U (G) Yet another much acclaimed film from the makers of “Turup”/Checkmate (which was first screened at the Cinema Paradiso, then at the Auroville Film Festival where it won the Best Film award, and recently […]
Screening: The Social Distance
Exclusive screening of the documentary The Social Distance we are hosting at Art Brute this Friday (11th Aug) at 730 pm. (This is a special one since we have the film maker with us & I’m sure there’s going to be a super engaging conversation with him after the screening)
Premiere: ‘Neon Phantom’
Opening night Manifest Dance-film Festival
CINE-master class
Our guest speaker: A Filmmaker and Film teacher (LV Prasad Film & TV Institute, and Loyola College, Chennai) Professor Sivakumar Mohanam will offer a presentation on Mikio Naruse‘sclassic “Yearning”, which will be screened and followed by an open discussion. Overview: Mikio Naruse is often overshadowed by more famous Japanese directors, even though his resume is brimful of classic films. Ozu was […]
Auroville Exchange
In 2021 an exchange programme was initiated by Auroville, an experimental global township located in Southern India. The two participants for the exchange were Lobsang, an environmentalist and filmmaker from Zanskar Valley, Ladakh in the Himalayas and Serena Aurora, a documentary filmmaker from Auroville. Through this programme Auroville wants to bring together people from different […]
Interactive documentary: The Pollinators of Slovenia
An interactive documentary by Studio Airport 2023 ABOUT Amid Slovenia’s thick forests of beech, fir, and maple, rolling agricultural land, and clear-running rivers there run ancient threads of relationship—between humans, pollinators, and the Earth—that still hum with life. In this interactive documentary, we travel deep into Slovenia’s landscape to learn how beekeepers and farmers are continuing to nurture this […]
Call for Artist: Manifest – Dance-film Festival
AuroApaar OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS From any artistic background, and using any medium, to participate to the creation of a multimedia improvised group performance in response to a selection of movies as part of the 2023 Manifest festival. Workshop on Improvisation and composition: No participation fee required. Performance: Contact: Av Improv Lab – avunderscore@gmail.com
Festival: International dance-film fest to be held in Pondy
Where: Pondycherry When: 28-30 July 2023 https://auroapaar.org/
Call for participation: Indie Filmmakers Meet-up Pondicherry/Auroville
A small group of Independent Filmmakers from Pondicherry/Auroville are just casually meeting up for Tea/Coffee to discuss all things Indie Film. It’s an informal meet-up for interested aspiring and experienced Indie filmmakers(Writers/Directors/Producers/Cinematographers/Sound/Editors/VFX artists/Music Composers etc) to exchange thoughts, challenges and even share what they are working on etc. It would be an opportunity to meet […]
Analogue Darkroom Workshop
Analogue Darkroom Workshop at the Centre d’Art, Auroville by Sasikanth Somu Program & Timings:Thursday 18th: 02.00 – 05.00pm – Brief look at History of Photography & Introduction to Film Camera.Friday 19th: 09.00am – 02.00pm Film photo shoot (in your own time), 02.00pm – 05.00pm – Develop your roll of film.Saturday 20th: 09.00am – 12.30pm & […]
Talk and Screenings: Poetry and Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami
Poetry and Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami Talk and Screenings by Debkamal Ganguly http://www.filminstitute.auroville.org/
FILM PHILOSOPHY: Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall His Past Lives
Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall His Past Lives’ illuminates cinema’s link to the preservation of human memory through its exploration of reincarnation.Debkamal Ganguly – through slow viewing and deep analysis of this film, explores the new configuration of ‘poetic’ in terms of implosive moments of ‘silence and murmurs of the self’, not only for the […]
Workshop: The mime of things
When: April 14-24 A Ten (full) day Mime Workshop by Drupad Gaonkar (a.k.a BLIP)for Actors, Directors, Dancers, Clowns, Choreographers and Movement basedPerforming Artists. Website: https://filminstitute.auroville.org/2023/03/14/the-mime-of-things/
2023 Edition of Hands On Documentary Film Workshop in Ladakh
When: 05 June to 16th July (6 weeks)Based out of old town of Leh, with sites of exploration extending to Skurbuchan, Photoksar in western Ladakh, Ensa and Turkuk in the Nubra Valley, Puga in Changthang ! Participants having diverse professional backgrounds and interests including: anthropology and other social sciences, film, art, architecture and design – […]
Article: Evoking Shakti in the time of AI
For the second time, the Kalakendra Gallery of the Bharat Nivas in Auroville has organized an exhibition on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8th 2023. The title of the exhibition is “Invoke the beautiful in all pervading Shakti Energy”. Prior to Covid, the exhibition was reserved for female artists as it is […]
Filmfestival: Auroville Film festival is calling for submissions
The 8th edition of the Auroville Film Festival will take place in January 2024. We are now open for submissions. Entries for the international category of “Films that develop the theme of human unity” are to be submitted via FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/AurovilleFilmFestival Films for the three local categories“Films made by Aurovilians, bioregion residents or guests of Auroville“,“Films […]
Festival: Water Festival 2023
When: Wednesday, March 22nd Where: All events will take place at the Water Mela Site located between Visitor’s Centre (VC) and Bharat Nivas (BN), unless indicated otherwise.
Open Call: Shared Tides residency
**Deadline Extended – 31 March 2023!** Last chance to apply for the Shared Tides residency open call! A residency program for anyone working with lens-based mediums, photographers, photojournalists, writers, designers, educators, researchers, mixed media artists from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. The primary intention is to find parallels and common threads between the shared cultures, […]
Cinema: From Utopia to Reality 2002
Where: Cinema Paradiso When: Friday 10 March, 5pm A 52-minute documentary on Auroville, in English, made in 2002 for Swiss TV by Laurence Bolomey and Harry Haener. The doco presents Auroville through a number of its residents — Afsaneh, Arumugan, Bettina, Bhaga, Deepti, Diego, Gilles G, Johnny, Joss, Kamala, Kanchina, R. Kanniappan, Liliana, Lucas D, Luigi […]
Film screening & talk: EVER SLOW GREEN with director Christoph Pohl
Ever Slow Green tells the story of Auroville’s 50-years-young forest through some of the diverse characters who have dedicated their lives to bringing it to fruition.
Workshop: Film-Philosophy with “Once upon a time in Anatolia” with Deb Kamal Ganguly
From the ‘Zone’ there is no escape for anyone with a sense of self-esteem and an acute, self-questioning conscience. The brilliance of Ceylan has explored the horror of banality, the violence of meaninglessness, the burden of the homogeneous empty secular time. Through the gradual and incremental collective reading of this great example of ‘slow cinema’, […]