Insights

Every year, Gauhati Cine Club gathers audiences to remember Bhupen Hazarika, one of Assam’s most influential composers, singers, lyricists and filmmakers. The…

Film projection has always been more than a technical task at Gauhati Cine Club. Since the club’s formation in 1962, the projector has connected audiences with…

In the Gauhati Cine Club archive, some of the most valuable film records are not reels or polished scripts. They are modest paper traces: screening notices,…

A large-format film screening is remembered through more than its technical specifications. It lives in the anticipation outside the venue, the hush before the…

A cinema screening can reveal more than the story on the screen. The texture of the image, the movement between frames, the sound of the projector, and even…

Gauhati Cine Club is beginning a new chapter in its community programme through a partnership with a local café in Guwahati. Each month, the café will become a…

A film studies textbook often presents history through celebrated directors, landmark releases, and established critical theories. Yet the evidence behind…

The lights dimmed, the projector began to hum, and the first lines of dialogue travelled across the room in an Assamese dialect that many people in the…

A memorable film screening does not depend entirely on a purpose-built auditorium. In villages, schools, community halls, courtyards, and temporary festival…

A film does not arrive in a cultural vacuum. Before audiences watch a story, they may already be influenced by certification rules, deleted scenes, restricted…