Insights

Some film events stay with us because of a single performance, a striking image or a conversation that continues long after the lights come up. Our first film…

A fragile film print can disappear quietly. It may sit in a private collection, a forgotten archive or a locked cupboard, vulnerable to humidity, heat and…

Since 1962, Gauhati Cine Club has treated cinema as a serious cultural conversation rather than a passing form of entertainment. Its activities have connected…

Since 1962, Gauhati Cine Club has treated cinema as a shared cultural practice rather than a private entertainment. Screenings, conversations, festivals,…

Screening Ingmar Bergman’s Persona on a rooftop changes the conditions of watching. The film’s stark close-ups, fractured identity and uneasy silences are…

At Gauhati Cine Club, film preservation often begins with a box that appears too ordinary to matter. In this case, it held a damaged 16mm reel from a 1970s…

In the early years of Gauhati Cine Club, film watching was an act of discovery. A screening could bring a member face to face with a director from another…

Assamese cinema has a history shaped by language, landscape, music and community life. The Gauhati Cine Club library preserves material that helps trace this…

Cinema becomes richer when people have a place to speak about it. A screening may end with the final frame, yet the real exchange often begins afterwards: a…

The tale of our club’s oldest surviving membership card begins with a modest object: a small piece of printed paper, handled, folded and stored long before…