Insights

Screening Ingmar Bergman’s Persona on a rooftop changes the conditions of watching. The film’s stark close-ups, fractured identity and uneasy silences are…

At Gauhati Cine Club, film preservation often begins with a box that appears too ordinary to matter. In this case, it held a damaged 16mm reel from a 1970s…

In the early years of Gauhati Cine Club, film watching was an act of discovery. A screening could bring a member face to face with a director from another…

Assamese cinema has a history shaped by language, landscape, music and community life. The Gauhati Cine Club library preserves material that helps trace this…

Cinema becomes richer when people have a place to speak about it. A screening may end with the final frame, yet the real exchange often begins afterwards: a…

The tale of our club’s oldest surviving membership card begins with a modest object: a small piece of printed paper, handled, folded and stored long before…

When the 2020 pandemic lockdown closed cinemas, community halls and universities across Assam, Gauhati Cine Club faced a question that reached beyond…

Gauhati Cine Club has preserved an important part of Assam’s cinema culture since 1962. Alongside screening records, festival material and club publications,…

Every 2 May, admirers of Satyajit Ray have a reason to gather around a screen. Born in Kolkata in 1921, Ray became one of world cinema’s most influential…

Jahnu Barua has developed one of the most recognisable visual voices in Indian regional cinema. His films often place ordinary people within landscapes that…