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In the history of Indian cinema, major debates are often preserved through famous conferences, published manifestos, and widely cited speeches. Smaller…

The Gauhati Cine Club’s first digital-to-film transfer represents a significant meeting point between contemporary production and the physical traditions of…

A film club is often imagined as a room with a large screen, rows of chairs, and carefully controlled darkness. Our history began with something far more…

Silent cinema is often remembered through images, but its screenings were never truly silent. Before synchronized sound became standard, films depended on live…

A 16mm projector is a mechanical instrument, a presentation device, and part of a cinema archive’s history. Its continued operation depends less on age than on…

Some film screenings stay in memory because of the movie itself. Others remain vivid because of the room, the people, the pauses between reels, and the…

Before a screening could be announced online, a film club had to make its presence visible by hand. In the early years of Gauhati Cine Club, that meant paper,…

In the years after the Second World War, Italian cinema offered audiences a new way to see ordinary life on screen. Films made with modest resources, real…

Across Assam, cinema halls once served as landmarks, meeting places, and informal classrooms. Their names remain in family memories, old tickets, hand-painted…

Long before streaming platforms made world cinema instantly accessible, a film screening in Guwahati could feel like an act of discovery. For many Assamese…