Beyond the Illusory World covers the making of stupas and their sculpted railings. The film looks at the site of Bharhut; the railings in the Indian Museum, Kolkata; and the stupas of Sanchi. 
The Journey Within takes us into the world of the early rock-cut caves of western India. The sites covered include the Bhaja Caves, Pitalkhora Caves, Bedsa Caves, Kondavane Caves, and others. 
The Image of the Buddha concerns the making of images of the Buddha, particularly in the art schools of Mathura and Gandhara. 
Stupas of the Krishna Valley is about the Buddhist heritage of the Krishna Valley in Andhra Pradesh. The sites covered are Guntupalli, Jaggayapeta, Amravati, and others.
Masterpieces of Buddhist Art covers the second phase of Buddhist caves created in western India. The sites covered are the Ajanta Caves, Kanheri Caves, Kondivite Caves, Aurangabad Caves, and Ellora Caves.
Phantom India: Dream and Reality
Wednesday January 23, 2013 @ 1:00 PM
Price: $10.00
1969, France, Louis Malle, 51 min.
Presented in association with The Criterion Collection
Free to Members
The 1969 documentary Phantom India is Louis Malle’s seven-part portrait of India. It serves as an investigation into the country’s sociopolitical landscape, traditions, and people, as well as a furthering Malle’s self-discovery as a non-fiction filmmaker.
This fourth episode is grounded in the notion that time - in the western sense - does not exist for Indian men and women. Malle and his crews find they have become one with their Indian subjects with regard to time. Malle indicates that they are gaining an understanding of their subjects not on a conceptual level, but on rhythmic, sensorial and atemporal levels. The episode then moves into a series of events and spectacles, loosely connected by their surrealistic, hallucinatory nature and sheer inexplicability for the western viewer.
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