Insights

In the autumn of 1974, an unfamiliar queue gathered outside the hall on Paltan Bazaar where our society held its Saturday screenings. A retired schoolteacher…

Walking into the Gauhati Cine Club building, visitors see more than chairs and a screen. A long mural runs along the main hall, charting Assamese cinema from…

A single screening can sometimes reroute the trajectory of a film culture. When the Gauhati Cine Club, founded in 1962, programmed Akira Kurosawa's 1950…

A film poster can announce a screening, but it can also carry the texture of a place. At Gauhati Cine Club, poster exhibitions become opportunities to connect…

For more than forty years, members of the Gauhati Cine Club had searched for the original soundtrack of a forgotten Assamese film. Every few years, a postcard…

In a club founded in 1962, the act of recording a screening by hand is older than most digital tools available to organisers today. The Gauhati Cine Club has…

For more than six decades, the Gauhati Cine Club has stood as a quiet pillar of film culture in Assam, nurturing filmmakers, screenwriters, and curious…

A small room above a tea stall in Nagaon became the headquarters for something that surprised everyone involved. The Gauhati Cine Club had been running…

The Gauhati Cine Club has curated screenings for decades, treating cinema as a living art form. When the picture is silent, only half the story arrives on…

For more than six decades, Gauhati Cine Club has treated cinema as a living conversation rather than a one-way broadcast. Since 1962, the organisation has…