Insights

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…

Gauhati Cine Club began its film discussion group for senior citizens in Guwahati because cinema can keep people connected across generations, languages and…

For a film society rooted in the Brahmaputra valley, the joy of curating conversations with visiting directors is shadowed by a stubborn logistical puzzle. A…

Our film society in Guwahati has spent the past several months piecing together a retrospective devoted to Assamese filmmaking from the 1960s, a decade we have…

Inviting a filmmaker from another Indian state can give a cinema club a wider view of regional storytelling, production cultures and artistic practice. For…