We are a band of outsiders with a distant look in our eyes and a close-up lens on the mount. When we stray from our path, Poets remind us of who we are.

 

NOMADS, is a changing, dynamic, new age school without walls. Registered as a not for profit Trust in Bhopal, it is a coming together of practitioners from diverse backgrounds and experiences. There are Artists, Poets, Storytellers, Filmmakers, Educators, Farmers and Entrepreneurs amongst us.

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In this age of eroding of meanings and a fading of purpose, we feel the necessity to redefine some KEYwords to help remember who we are.

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Art is hard to define yet central to us. We wonder why it is peripheral to the

society we are part of? Has it always been so? What is the Poet-Artist’s role

in the scheme of things? What is it to be the artist of our lives? 

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We especially recognize Cinema for being a community practice; value it as the art of collective writing. That the Camera enables a Consciousness practice is for us, a matter of deep significance. We see ourselves as secret chroniclers of time. Faced with the stifling classifieds of Fiction-Documentary-Experimental-Commercial-Propaganda, we propose an In(ter)dependent cinema, genre F(r)iction aligned with the nuanced, paradox-ical, poetic nature of truth.  

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The proposition is- Cinema as a school.

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20th century being the century of Cinema, our century finds it becoming an ideal interface for the continuing education of the young and not so young. Thus choosing process over product, it becomes the perfect place to unlearn & decondition with an eye on collective ascension. In the face of a serious threat to abiding structures like Nature, Culture, Individual, Family, Society, it also serves as a safe environment for creative questioning &  new encounters with the self & others.

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NOMADS is committed to creating innovative, immersive & rigorous learning spaces from time to time, via carefully curated study programmes in the interface of Cinema and other creative practices. 

 

With a sensible perspective on Asian Philosophy & Aesthetics, its a call to reOrient. It equally seeks to create a context for heeding the enduring values of love, compassion, fellowship, joy, imagination and the response-able-ness of be-ing human. 

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