Insights

At Gauhati Cine Club, a monthly screening is more than a film placed on a projector. Each programme brings together language, rights, subtitles, venue…

The untold story of the first Assamese film screened at our club begins with a work made almost three decades before Gauhati Cine Club was founded. Joymoti,…

Gauhati Cine Club organises a special screening of movies directed by club alumni because cinema carries the memory of a community. Since 1962, the club has…

Classic Assamese cinema carries the memory of a region through its language, landscape and social rhythms. Translating its subtitles into English is therefore…

For decades, the only trace of Pahari Gaan, a 1971 Assamese feature, was a water-stained poster above a Nagaon ticket counter. The reels had been lost in a…

Every Saturday since the autumn of 1975, a slender figure in a pressed cotton shirt has taken his usual seat in the upper gallery of the Gauhati Cine Club's…

When the lights go down and the projector whirs, the room itself becomes part of the film. At Gauhati Cine Club, we have long treated every screening as a…

For decades, college campuses have incubated the next wave of cinema. In Sydney, Tropfest began as a single evening of short films projected in a courtyard and…

For more than six decades, Gauhati Cine Club has treated cinema as a living conversation rather than a commercial product. Founded in 1962, the organisation…

Tucked inside the archive room of the Gauhati Cine Club lies a set of weathered registers whose pages carry the texture of a vanished cinematic era. The…