16mm Film Festival

16mm Film Festival The 16mm Film Festival: We reconnect with the medium of celluloid film through screenings and worksh

Here's the team behind 16mmfilmfestival. People who have found their curiosity piqued by the process of setting up a sp...
02/03/2026

Here's the team behind 16mmfilmfestival. People who have found their curiosity piqued by the process of setting up a space for showcasing 16mm analog filmmaking, not as nostalgia, but as a living, breathing practice. It was about creating room for experimentation, for imperfection, for the tactile magic of cinema, and about bringing together an audience that yearns to see these experiments from around the world, in their city.

Thank you for stepping into the dark with us and keeping the magic of this medium alive.

.rious .r01 .s 🤍

Bringing the 16mmfilmfestival to life after months of preparation, coordination and thoughtful curation was both gratify...
23/02/2026

Bringing the 16mmfilmfestival to life after months of preparation, coordination and thoughtful curation was both gratifying and grounding. What began months ago as spreadsheets, and ideas finally found its form across the three days.

It started with a familiar faces trickling in… and then the seats kept filling over the next two days. You showed up for your favourite artists, stumbling upon analog experiments from across the world, sitting in on conversations about film, photochemical practices, the magicians behind that yesteryear cinema aesthetic, and the new-gen artists finding wild novelty inside old-school constraints.

Cameras, chemicals, projections, and imaginations stretching a little further each time.

We were especially glad to see artists who developed their Ek Minute films at our Harkat Lab on screen, along with the teams behind the Indian entries for Straight8 2025.

Analog is alive, slightly chaotic, and very loved. See you next year?

Sitting down to watch a live 16mm film performance is a sensory retreat one is not fully prepared for the first time. It...
21/02/2026

Sitting down to watch a live 16mm film performance is a sensory retreat one is not fully prepared for the first time. It's journey inwards. There's music, there's an unfurling of visuals and then visuals upon visuals. There's a gentle consistent whirring of an analog projector that is punctuated with a staccato of glitches once in a while that directly unfurls in what you see. Sometimes a burn blooms on the screen, accompanied with the sharp whiff of singed film. It happens all at once, nothing about it is predictable, it's a version of the story that one can witness only once, both the performer and the audience.

's आसमान में टूटता तारा and .rious 's Define Dancing were two performances that premiered at the 2025 edition of the 16mmfilmfestival. Experiments with found footage, stop motion, triple exposures, double projections, kaleidoscopic lenses and live music culminated into our opening night for in a hooked house-full show.

Lithuanian experimental filmmaker Migle Krizinauskaite ( ) opened day two, showcasing and discussing her practice primarily with the 8mm format, delving into her artistic process and engaging the room talking about how the medium shapes her approach as a filmmaker.

Filling up the space with an audience to share the practices that are close to the hearts of the artists that presented their work at this 16mmfilmfestival was the ultimate celebration of it all.

Presenting the films created during our 10-day 16mm Analogue Residency in Kerala, works shaped through workshops, experi...
28/11/2025

Presenting the films created during our 10-day 16mm Analogue Residency in Kerala, works shaped through workshops, experimentation, and an immersive time at Greenara, Kozhikode:)
Screening on 30th November, 7:30pm onwards!

We’re excited to reveal a whole collection of straight 8mm for the festival! Come join us and fall in love with films.30...
27/11/2025

We’re excited to reveal a whole collection of straight 8mm for the festival! Come join us and fall in love with films.
30th November, 7:30pm onwards

All the works in this program were filmed on Super 8mm! These films were created with care, passion, and a love for anal...
26/11/2025

All the works in this program were filmed on Super 8mm! These films were created with care, passion, and a love for analog craft:)
Come join us, sit back and enjoy small-gauge cinema with big personality.
30th November. 7:30pm onwards!

All the works in this program were filmed on Super 8mm! These films were created with care, passion, and a love for anal...
26/11/2025

All the works in this program were filmed on Super 8mm! These films were created with care, passion, and a love for analog craft:)
Come join us, sit back and enjoy small-gauge cinema with big personality.
30th November. 7:30pm onwards!

Detailed schedule for Day 3!11am Analogue Dreamscapes- Artist Talk by Migle Krizinauskaite1:30pm Cross Stitch- Explorati...
26/11/2025

Detailed schedule for Day 3!

11am Analogue Dreamscapes- Artist Talk by Migle Krizinauskaite
1:30pm Cross Stitch- Explorations within the camera.
3pmSleeping under a Tree- To feel the earth.
4:30pm Journeys- The world from a train window.
6pm Remember me by- Memories, nostalgia, heartbreak.
7:30pm A giant collection of small explorations.- Ek minute films, straight 8 India films & 2025 16mm residency explorations.

Come hang, explore and fall in love with analog:)

Here’s the detailed schedule for Day 2 of our festival!More stories, more experiments, more analog joy.11am Lap open hou...
25/11/2025

Here’s the detailed schedule for Day 2 of our festival!
More stories, more experiments, more analog joy.

11am Lap open house
12pm A Play of Textures- Handmade techniques, darkroom play.
3pm What’s around is within-Land, earth, water, flowers, film.
4:30pm Magic Beans-Absurdist and parodoxical.
6pm Part of a Whole- Stories that are passed down.
7:30pm Analog about analog- Film about Film about Film.

Come hang, explore, and get lost in the grain.

Here’s the detailed schedule for Day 2 of our festival!More stories, more experiments, more analog joy.11am Lap open hou...
25/11/2025

Here’s the detailed schedule for Day 2 of our festival!
More stories, more experiments, more analog joy.

11am Lap open house.
12pm A Play of Textures- Handmade Techniques, darkroom play.
3pm What’s around is within- Land, earth, water, flowers, film.
4:30pm Magic Beans- Absurdist and parodoxical.
6pm Part of a Whole- Stories that are passed down.
7:30pm Analog about analog- Film about Film about Film.

Come join us:))

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