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EXCAVATING INDIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM

This ongoing research project aims to create an understanding of experimentation with film in India through interviews with filmmakers, critics, archivists and academics. By unearthing rarely seen avant garde and experimental works, this project looks to initiate discussion and critique on Indian experimental cinema, towards creating an environment that celebrates experimentation with the film form in India. Originally supported by a grant from Sarai Delhi.

Listed below are project related interviews and other readings:

Amrit Gangar is a Mumbai-based writer, film critic, historian and curator. He has co-authored…

Ashish Avikunthak has been making self funded films on 16mm & 35mm for the past 10 years and…

Sanjiv Shah directed  the cult classic Hun Hunsi Hunsi Lal (1992), the story of Hunshilal…

Abid Surti is a master of all trades. He has earned accolades within India and abroad as a…

Nina Shivdasani Rovshen In 1975 Nina Shivdasani Rovshen (aka Nina Sugati SR), made ‘Chhatrabhang’ – the first Indian…