Amrit Gangar an author, curator, film theoretician and historian,

Amrit Gangar

Amrit Gangar is a Mumbai-based author, curator, film theoretician and historian, working in the field of cinema for three decades; he has also worked on a number of feature films, documentaries, short films and video installations from Germany and other European countries. Besides curating several events for film festivals, galleries and universities at home and abroad, for the past eight years he has been engaged with his theoretical concept called Cinema of Prayoga and has presented it at various venues including the Tate Modern, London; Pompidou Centre, Paris and several other institutions in India and abroad. Recently he has been appointed as Consultant Curator for the upcoming National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai by the Government of India. He is also on the international advisory board of the journal Moving Image Review & Art Journal published from London. Gangar has authored and edited several books on cinema in English and Gujarati.

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Cinema of Prayoga: A New Concept

Amrit Gangar has been been responsible for coining, developing and theorizing his new theoretical concept of 'Cinema of Prayoga' or 'Cinema Prayoga' that aims at substituting  and expanding the generally accepted Euro-American-centric term the 'Experimental Film' while celebrating the cinematographic idiom deeply located in the polyphony of Indian philosophy and cultural imagination, including the perception of 'time' and 'space'. Since his first public presentation of 'Cinema of Prayoga' at the Experimenta, Mumbai in 2005, he has been presenting it at various venues and fora in India and abroad.

                                                  

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