Our Goal
Silhouette, a space, is born not of conviction rather of profound confusion in our understanding of the world. It seeks to be a platform for gathering myriad views on film (and allied art forms) and to continue with the flux of discourse. The Silhouette publications are our attempt to achieve this goal.
Silhouette earnestly solicits your valuable association and views, for together they lead, more importantly, to the question.
About the Publication
Silhouette magazine started its journey from January 2002. This is a bilingual magazine in English and Bengali languages published from Kolkata (India). The paper edition is an annual publication. This website publishes some selected articles, for full paperback editions contact us. We have started an web edition to be published quarterly going forward.
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Volume 7 is OUT!!!…..Read for Details!!! Or Preview in Google Book...
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Silhouette Web Edition is rolled out!!!….Do let us know what you think!
Silhouette always thrived to be contemporary in its outlook as well as its choice of topics…we try to deal with subjects that we feel are catching up or we envision them to be discussed in detail in future. Taking up China and Korea as our cover topic was driven by this urge….Read Read Read!!!
…Everything comes in full circles. Or so it seems. It all started way back in 2001 on a humid summer evening in Kolkata. It was at the Nandan premises, the hotbed of cinema culture in Kolkata when a group of enthusiasts, mainly students (apart from few like this editor) came up with the idea of a film society. The Silhouette Film Society was born. And…Read Read Read!!!
…Times around us are changing continuously, so is cinema. There has been a growing need felt for looking around and exploring the different facades of contemporary cinema around us, which has been gaining some distinct traits over time…Read Read Read!!!
…Iranian cinema has emerged lately as one of the most potent and powerful forces in world cinema. It has treaded uncharted avenues to deal with unique and particular problems that affect them, problems as diverse as turbulent socio-political conditions…Read Read Read!!!
…Nothing would have been a more suitable one than ‘Film and Society’ as cover topic of this first issue which lends a whole of canvas to patch with, from which may emerge avenues of immense possibilities to be explored in its due course…Read Read Read !!!!
