‘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.
Director Avijit Mukul Kishore will be in attendance.
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Monday, September 30 4:15p
Cathedral of Learning, Room 407, Univ. of Pittsburgh
FREE, Refreshments Served
PLUS... Throughout the school year, the Film and Media Studies and other programs at the University of Pittsburgh bring a variety of films, filmmakers, speakers, and discussion to their campus, including many in the documentary realm. Many of these events are free. This month, the brief Ukranian Film Festival appears over the next two Saturdays, including the documentaries Breaking Point: The Fight for Democracy in Ukraine (Sept. 21) and Ukranian Sheriffs (Sept. 28). Both are preceded by feature films ( Donbass and The Guide, resp.) and the $12 admission covers for the double feature.
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