Arindam Sen

Arindam Sen is a film curator and critic. He works primarily in the domain of artists’, experimental, and documentary films. He is the co-founder of Cinema Parenthèse, a collective of writers, programmers and filmmakers that organizes experimental film screenings and dialogues in Brussels. He is the editor of Distant Voices. Two conversations with Annik Leroy, Julie Morel, Arindam Sen (Stereo Editions, 2024), and co-editor of The Rambling Figures of Mani Kaul (with Stoffel Debuysere; Courtisane, 2018).

Arindam Sen, 2025
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14.05.2025
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The story of the Australian couple Corinne and Arthur Cantrill ought to have been a famed one in the history of experimental film. Working in the modernist tradition with a strong materialist conviction, the Cantrills, who started out making documentaries, systematically probed the indexical possibilities of film as a medium from their removed geolocation in Australia. Their names might be familiar to aficionados of experimental film, but chances are that unless one has travelled down under, they wouldn’t have encountered a large corpus of their artistic production.