Insights

In the history of Gauhati Cine Club, the 1966 film festival occupies a special place. It belongs to an era when film culture depended on physical prints,…

The revival of an old film is rarely achieved by a single screening. It depends on recovering memory, creating public interest, locating surviving materials,…

A film exchange can turn a screening into a lasting cultural conversation. When the Gauhati Cine Club began planning a film swap with a cine club in Dhaka, our…

Assamese cinema has produced fewer conventional horror films than Hindi, Bengali, or Tamil cinema, yet its stories are filled with haunted houses, forest…

Since 1962, Gauhati Cine Club has helped Assam experience cinema as an art, a shared language, and a subject for serious conversation. Screenings, discussions,…

At Gauhati Cine Club, our film programmes have always been spaces for attention, conversation, and discovery. A recent collaboration with a local orchestra…

Cinema has always been a shared experience. At Gauhati Cine Club, the image on the screen has been accompanied by an equally important element: sound.…

I still remember the first sight of the tented hall: a broad canvas roof trembling slightly in the evening breeze, wooden poles rising around the audience, and…

A mobile phone can be a camera, editing suite, sound recorder, archive, and screening device carried in a pocket. For many aspiring filmmakers, it removes the…

The arrival of color in Assamese feature filmmaking was more than a technical milestone. It altered the way landscapes, costumes, rituals, faces, and public…