Centre for Moving Image
Moving Image is an ideal fusion hub for aspiring young storytellers to evolve by exercising creative collaboration embedded with the Design Thinking process. This area fosters deep and enthusiastic exploration of technology, media enhancement, and social initiatives. The 4-year BDes degree in Moving Image, led by the centre, offers an exciting blend of storytelling practices, merging live-action, animation, motion graphics, cinematography, sound, coding, and other relevant skills. The centre prepares students for a career in immersive and interactive media domains, such as films, television, radio, and internet-based emerging media practices.
Vision
CMI envisions a content creator’s hub diversifying creative practices in pedagogic training, research & development for local, national & global stakeholders.
Action Plan
The global pitch for CMI sets the benchmark of cinematic storytelling with a right mix of theory & practice. It has a tremendous scope for offering Masters & Applied Research.
Focus Areas
The Centre for Moving Image focuses on inter, intra, cross, trans, and multidisciplinary approaches, with design sensibility, ethical practices, and content-rich creation as top priorities.
Global and Local Exposure
Offers academic collaborations for diverse media experiences and learning opportunities.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Simplifies complex Moving Image Media ecologies through a holistic approach.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum
The Centre for Moving Image focuses on inter, intra, cross, trans, and multidisciplinary approaches, with design sensibility, ethical practices, and content-rich creation as top priorities.
Future-Ready Designers
Bridges traditional templates with new media to prepare ethically responsible Moving Image designers for emerging opportunities.
Holistic and Balanced Approach
Focused on blending various media techniques to create compelling visual narratives while combining skill development and theoretical understanding to shape young minds.
Holistic and Balanced Approach
Fosters efficiency and a sense of empathy, enabling students to meet audience expectations effectively.
Holistic and Balanced Approach
Equips students with diverse skills to effectively strategize and communicate, ensuring deeper audience engagement.
Exposure to Multiple Media
This includes hands-on experience in scripting, sound design, graphics, animation, live-action, and more.
Moving Image Crew
Sekhar Mukherjee
Professor and Programme Lead, Moving Image, School of Design
MDes, National Institute of Design
Dr Akash Gaur
Assistant Professor, School of Design
PhD, Gujarat Law Society University
Swati Mangrulkar
Assistant Professor, School of Design
MA Animation, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Khushvender Meena
Assistant Manager, Moving Image Lab
MDes, National Institute of Design
Moving Image Crew
Sekhar Mukherjee
Professor and Programme Lead, Moving Image, School of Design
MDes, National Institute of Design
Dr Akash Gaur
Assistant Professor, School of Design
PhD, Gujarat Law Society University
Swati Mangrulkar
Assistant Professor, School of Design
MA Animation, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Khushvender Meena
Assistant Manager, Moving Image Lab
MDes, National Institute of Design
Moving Image Bos Members
Moving Image Bos Members
Moving Image Festival
- To build local,national & global network
- To bring intense Industry-Academia culture
To expose students, faculty & staff to global best practice
Mooo is the rebranded student international moving image festival of iconic animation festival titled Chitrakatha. So folks we are back and we are now will celebrate a wider variety of storytelling…anything and everything which moves!
This edition which is 10th of Chitrakatha & 1.0 edition as Mooo is going to be an unique academic festival where friends from far & near will join us to make 5 days of fun filled thought provoking stimulating creative gaga of storytelling in motion.
Our long standing partners of Mooo/Chitrakatha Prof Isabel Herguera, Prof Zilvinas Lilas and also other creative partners are going to continue with this journey of discovering never-ending stories of India as well as the world. As the saying goes….’What is not here in India it’s not there in the world!!!’
So my friends stay tuned and join us for this unique fanfare of India’s and perhaps worlds only academic motion based storytelling festival which is always bring the future to the forefront…by the students, from the students and for the students…
Festival Dates: November 25 to 29, 2025
Stay tuned for announcements. Festival competition entries will be announced soon. Hurry complete all your projects in moving image, be it animation, live, mixed media or 30 second to 30 minutes…Mooo will be happy to get them for it’s final bout.
More soon….
For Collaboration & Support write to sekhar.mukherjee@anu.edu.in
Prof Sekhar Mukherjee
Festival Director
Mooo/Chitrakatha International Student Moving Image Festival
India
Disclaimer:
Moving Image intent to develop it as an independent Centre for Moving Image to leverage and harness the greater opportunity of growing industry of creative & entertainment economy. Also to attract more talents of various level which centre intend to offer