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F(r)ICTION 1
20th to 30th JANUARY 2025
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In January 2025 a cinema camp happened in an Adivasi village within the forests of Central India. The village was/is in the process of being displaced from where they have lived for generations now, to make way for a 13th national park of MP.
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It was a unique apprenticeship programme where a bunch of young and not so young participants from diverse disciplines and practices, viz. visual arts, animation, photography, cinematography, writing, sound recording, direction, sociology, education spent 10 Days in a forest village with no electricity n internet learning to research, script, image, map n audio-visually document the space-time.
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A critical part of the camp was for each participant to live with a family,
eating, sleeping, walking, working, helping, listening to men, women, children
as also doing various other activities with them like mapping the village, documenting its diurnal rhythm via cameras n sound recorders, understanding its history, village, people, recording songs, stories n struggles,
asking questions, answering queries, wondering, absorbing, engaging,
reading, reflecting, screening films for the village...
It was an extremely worthwhile engagement on both sides,
Like it is when you carry a trace of something as you move on;
its a part of you, thence...
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We have taken a while to let the experience stand, ripen, marinate.
Time now to move to the next level:
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F(r)ICTION 2
AUGUST 30th to SEPTEMBER 9th 2025
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F(r)ICTION 2 continued the creative apprenticeship programme.
through working on the archive of Images, Sounds, Texts, Music, Movement & Maps gathered in an Adivasi village Neelgarh
during NOMAD's previous cinema camp F(r)ICTION 1
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Applications were invited for creative apprenticeship in
EDITING, DIRECTION, SOUND EDITING, CARTOGRAPHY
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The camp called for a conscious slowing down to the pace of the Forest,
an aligning to the rhythm of an Adivasi Indian village
via a nuanced understanding of Time, Image, Movement in cinema
and a playful experimenting via cartography n game design
keeping in mind the Neelgarhs near and far.
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