Nostalgia for the Future
at the University of Pittsburgh
Director Avijit Mukul Kishore will be in attendance.
FILM WEBSITE
Monday, September 30 4:15p
Cathedral of Learning, Room 407
FREE, Refreshments Served
at the University of Pittsburgh
‘Nostalgia for the Future’ is a film on Indian modernity, the making of the citizen and the architecture of the home. It looks at imaginations of homes across four examples of buildings made over the period of a century: a palace built by a progressive monarch in the late 19th Century, a private residence designed by the modernist Le Corbusier, an ashram that epitomizes Gandhi’s vision of India, and a public housing project built to house refugees from Pakistan. The film explores these spaces and imagines the bodies that were meant to inhabit them, using a mix of film, video, and archival footage from state propaganda films and mainstream cinema.
FILM WEBSITE
Monday, September 30 4:15p
Cathedral of Learning, Room 407
FREE, Refreshments Served
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