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Why we still keep a physical logbook of every screening

In a club founded in 1962, the act of recording a screening by hand is older than most digital tools available to organisers today. The Gauhati Cine Club has…

Frames of Vision: Remembering a Pioneer Through His Camera

For more than six decades, the Gauhati Cine Club has stood as a quiet pillar of film culture in Assam, nurturing filmmakers, screenwriters, and curious…

Cameras in the Paddy Fields A Filmmaking Camp in Nagaon

A small room above a tea stall in Nagaon became the headquarters for something that surprised everyone involved. The Gauhati Cine Club had been running…

Inside Our Sound Console: Engineering Silent Film Accompaniment

The Gauhati Cine Club has curated screenings for decades, treating cinema as a living art form. When the picture is silent, only half the story arrives on…

Cinema Meets Assamese Literature in Our Regular Screening Series

For more than six decades, Gauhati Cine Club has treated cinema as a living conversation rather than a one-way broadcast. Since 1962, the organisation has…

Safeguarding the Vision of Assamese Documentarists Through Collective Action

For decades, the camera has wandered the floodplains of the Brahmaputra, the misty edges of the hills where the sun sets early, the courtyards of weavers, and…

How historical maps helped us rebuild our first screening venue

When the Gauhati Cine Club began thinking about how to mark decades of bringing film culture to Assam, we found ourselves asking a simple question: where…

Tracing Assamese Cinema Through Family-Donated Film Memorabilia

Assamese cinema carries the weight of a century of storytelling, song, and social change. From the silent-era experiments of Jyotiprasad Agarwala to the…

Why our club records every post-screening conversation

Every screening at Gauhati Cine Club ends with a question from the floor. For more than six decades, the room has held filmmakers, students, and curious…

When a Club Member Built a Projector from Scratch

In the narrow lanes of Guwahati, where the Brahmaputra hums in the distance and monsoon light filters through old Assam-type buildings, a quiet kind of…