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Time-traveller, perpetual flaneur, social scientist and poet Ahmed Akash continues his quasi-fictional journey through the porous, soluble annals of the history of Indian cinema |
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An interview with one of the country's most singular filmmakers, R V Ramani. A discussion of his creative references, his process and the autonomy - both aesthetic and economic - he has managed to establish. |
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A contemplation of the transformation of human life into a specimen in the digital age - a phenomena studied in the light of Laura Poitras' acclaimed 'Citizenfour'. |
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A filmmaker, a cinephile and a long-time resident of Goa laments the decline in the quality of a festival once identified as one of the most relevant film-gatherings in the world. |
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A discussion of how only the most pungent sensations of each film come to form its memory in the minds of its spectators. Also, recollection of a pre-independence movie studio in Lahore and a chance encounter with Nehru. |
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A reprint of a 1972 Cinema Vision report of the now legendary Heggodu experiment undertaken by the founder of Ninasam, pioneering cultural activist, K V Subbana. |
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