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How a Rare Assamese Film Print Found Its Way Back to Assam

A film print can look like a fragile object, yet it carries an entire cultural landscape. Every reel preserves more than images and dialogue: it holds the…

Restoring the Memory of Assamese Film Posters

A film poster is often the first encounter audiences have with a movie. Before the opening credits, it creates a mood, introduces a star, announces a story,…

Forty Years At The Gate Of Gauhati Cine Club

A cinema club is often remembered through its films, filmmakers, festivals, and discussions. Yet the life of a screening also depends on quieter forms of…

Why We Maintain A Map Of Every Screening Location In Guwahati Since 1962

A film club’s history is often told through directors, titles, dates, and awards. Yet cinema also has a physical history. Films are experienced in rooms,…

The Science of Film Through Cinematography and Sound

Cinema is often described as a language of images, yet every frame also depends on light, movement, rhythm, texture, and sound. A film communicates through…

Frames of Memory at the Assam State Museum

Gauhati Cine Club is collaborating with the Assam State Museum to present a film exhibition that brings together cinema, cultural history, and the visual…

When Pather Panchali Enters a Tribal Village

A film screening can become much more than a public showing of moving images. In a tribal village, where communal gatherings often carry social, educational,…

From Printing Press to Moving-Image Library

When the old printing press first came into the care of Gauhati Cine Club, it seemed better suited to storing dust than preserving cinema. The machines were…

A Retrospective of Assamese Director Arup Manna’s Early Short Films

The early short films of Arup Manna invite close attention because they reveal a director learning how to look, listen, and shape everyday experience into…

Preserving Assam’s Everyday Cinema for Future Generations

Gauhati Cine Club’s drive to digitize 100 hours of local home movies places ordinary family footage at the heart of Assam’s film heritage. These films may show…