Back in 2017, as a primer to EyeMyth Media Arts Festival, the organisers presented an evening of award-winning films and audiovisual performances by contemporary artists. The audience lapped it up. That inspired them to create Indie Cinema Night, a festival that will feature everything from vertical cinema to visual music to award-winning shorts. The themes range from responsible environmentalism to Pashmina goats to dystopian societies.

Get the picture? Produced by Future Fiction (a platform that addresses the future of Indian digital expressions), the idea is to create an alternative space for emerging forms of film, visual art and animation. "It is about celebrating moving images in all its forms, the creative energies that build a scene, and the emerging formats of storytelling," says Tejas Nair, Future Fiction.