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The room had settled into the particular quiet that only a film screening can create. In Guwahati, people had arrived after work, through traffic and sudden…

How we digitized over 500 rare film stills from Assam’s golden era began with a cardboard box. Inside were loose prints, torn publicity clippings and…

Our method for using a local radio station to announce screenings in the 1980s was simple: we turned a club notice into a spoken message that could travel…

Street screenings in Assam often use a wall, a white sheet or the front of a shop. A rickshaw changes that relationship: the vehicle becomes a mobile cinema,…

A film screening begins before the lights go down. It starts with the walk to the venue, the sound of people arriving, the smell of tea or old timber, and the…

At the end of a screening day, the projection room at Gauhati Cine Club can look almost empty: spent film cans line the wall, cue sheets sit beside the…

Digital entertainment is evolving across screens, formats, and audiences. For players exploring casino games in Italy, promotional mechanics such as free spins…

Gauhati Cine Club’s series on Assam’s tea plantations began with a recurring gap in our screenings: films set in the gardens were often treated as scenic…

Film heritage often survives in modest objects: a metal can, a brittle reel, a pencilled catalogue card. Since 1962, Gauhati Cine Club has promoted cinema as…

Cinema has always explored the relationship between people, performance, technology, and spectatorship. From the earliest silent films to interactive digital…