TEXTS

ONE FILM AT A TIME
Editor: Shai Heredia

This anthology of essays and interviews with filmmakers, scholars,
archivists and curators explores the many and distinct processes and
skills involved in keeping films alive through practices of archiving,
curating and restoration. Focussed on the extraordinary collection of
avant-garde and political cinema from India housed in the archives of
the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin, this volume
traces diverse histories and trajectories of filmmaking in India since
the 1960s—from experimental narrative to political documentary, cult
classics to collective filmmaking practices. The volume also reflects
on curatorial and archival practices as they have been up to now, and
considers new ways forward.

Contributors: Nicole Wolf, Deepa Dhanraj, Kirtana Kumar, Shivendra
Singh Dungarpur, Erika & Ulrich Gregor, K.Hariharan, Ruchir Joshi,
Dorothee Wenner, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, and Markus Ruff

Book Design: Ninan Joseph
Publisher: Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
Year: 2024

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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…