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April 12, 2025 at 5:45:00 PM

AFS Cinema

Online May 2 - 4

Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

Indie Meme Special 10th Year
Retrospective Showcase

Ouroboros

India | Short

2024 | 6 mins | N/A

Followed by the film The Glassworker.

EVENT HAS PASSED

Limited tickets available on site.

Birsa Munda international film awards- best horror short film
13th Mumbai shorts international film festival - best student animated film
17th jaipur international film festival - best upcoming film award

The film is about the propagation of evil curses in the form of a beautiful ring that invokes greed. The story revolves around a simple man who stumbles upon the ring and steals it.

Film Heritage Foundation used the best surviving elements for the restoration – the original camera negative and the 35 mm print preserved at the NFDC – NFAI. Unfortunately, the sound negative was not available. We digitized the sound from the 35 mm print preserved at Film Heritage Foundation. The film elements were repaired by the Film Heritage Foundation conservators and the scanning was done in Prasad Lab in Chennai We found that due to the deterioration of the print, there were vertical green lines on many parts of the film. While the scanning and digital clean-up was done at Prasad under the supervision of L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, the grading, sound restoration and mastering was done at the lab in Bologna. Both Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, the cinematographer of the film, have been involved in the restoration of the film.

Restoration Process

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Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

The screening will be preceded by a performance by Specific Thing.

Specific Thing is the project of local musician Román. Sometimes he plays by himself and sometimes he plays with his snazzy band — he loves to do both! And the music? It draws from folk, punk, pop, latin, communism, animals, friends... He likes to keep it cartoony, quick, and catchy. The band released an album in 2025 called "Now Is Actually Not A Good Time". Find more at @specificthing on Instagram.

Meet Specific Thing

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About the Artist

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Film Heritage Foundation

Animation Film student at Satyajit Ray film and television institute of India, writer, director, animator, CS Engineer.

I make 2d animations and dabble with all aspects of an animated film production pipeline from writing to storyboarding to actual animation and post.

A story teller striving to show the world things never seen before! Bringing to light all that shrouded in the realm of thoughts!

Films inspire perspectives in me, molded me in more ways than one, perhaps a film can change the world for the better!

Ever since I can remember, drawing and doing crafty things with my hands has been a lot of fun and a huge part of my identity. I have dabbled in all kinds of art techniques, from oil paintings to sculptures, from making posters to graphic design, But my life as an artist truly began the day when for the first time I made an animation, seeing my drawings living and breathing, I knew that I wanted more.

I wouldn't have known it at the time that it would forever change me. The medium of storytelling has helped me to identify my ultimate goal as an artist- to move the masses for the better. Films and art have a profound effect on the masses, it has the power to bring about real change, like it did with me. I feel that if a story can bring about change from within an individual, perhaps it can change the world for the better as well!

I put my heart and soul to every artwork I create.

Every film I make, every time my drawings come to life, it always has elements that are a reflection of my own deepest inner self.

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Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

Trailer

Credits

Crew:

Director:   

Anuj Choudhary

Writer:

Anuj Choudhary

Producers:

Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute 

Film Editor:

Featured Cast:

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Restoration Effort Led By: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director, Film Heritage Foundation

 

Restoration Credit:

Restored by Film Heritage Foundation in association with Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(Amul), the cinematographer Govind Nihalani and the director Shyam Benegal. Funding supported by Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(Amul)

Thank you to our community partners for this screening!

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