A Lens-Based Image Workshop: Listening to the World, Afresh

Exploring the relationship between content and form in non-fiction film

Facilitated by Sameera Jain and Radhamohini Prasad
11- 16 March 2025

This 6-day workshop is structured to explore new possibilities that may arise in our encounter with the world, working with image-making and narrative.

You will need to have—
– A mobile phone for taking stills and videos
– A personal laptop

We will be discussing—
– The link between Ethics and Aesthetics
– The Politics of the Gaze
– The intersecting concerns of personal, political, historical, gender, class & caste
-The Role of Research in the Formation of an image

Experiments in making with still and moving images generate conversations around the complications in perspective formation; polarisations, dominant positions, stereotypical depictions; ambiguities and ambivalences.

The workshop is open to all, irrespective of age, background and profession. Technical skills are not a prerequisite.
Full days, approximately 10 am – 6 pm, with breaks.
Workshop Fee: Rs. 3000. Limited sponsorships available on merit.
Registration Link – https://forms.gle/jneVfTWGRZXqYuFW6

About the Facilitators—

Sameera Jain is an educator, editor and director. She has a sustained interest in structuring pedagogic practice which pushes boundaries, to experiment and to interrogate accepted codes in nonfiction cinema. She was course director, Creative Documentary Course, SACAC, New Delhi, from 2013-23 and has been working in the field of cinema in various capacities for over four decades.

Radhamohini Prasad is a filmmaker from Kalimpong. She was a resident filmmaker at the Critical Art & Media Practices (Mumbai), the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Bangalore) and a visiting faculty at the Creative Documentary Course, SACAC (New Delhi). In 2013, as a Fellow of the Unbox Fellowship Programme (New Delhi), she was a co-recipient of the AHRC Booster Fund Pitch for Law Digital, an experimental digital cartography project. Her film Machis Ko Sinka screened at Film South Asia (Kathmandu) and SIGNS: John Abraham National Award Festival (Trivandrum). Her birthplace and its circumstances have greatly influenced and shaped her work.

For inquiries, registration, and accommodation, please mail to info@buddhapada.in