The department of Literary and Cultural Studies, FLAME University is excited to announce the screening of two films 'Nostalgia for the Future' (2017) and 'Lovely Villa: Architecture as Autobiography' (2019) by Rohan Shivkumar and Avijit Mukul Kishore. The event will be held on Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 9:30am in CHK001.

We will be joined by one of the makers of the film, Avijit Mukul Kishore, on Saturday, and the screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the guest. Come watch these incredible films and engage with the accompanying discussions around Architecture and Indian Modernity. 

Synopsis:

‘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 - Lukhshmi Vilas Palace in Baroda, Villa Shodhan in Ahmedabad, Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, and public housing in post-independence Delhi.

‘Lovely Villa: Architecture as Autobiography’ is named after the apartment building Rohan Shivkumar grew up in as he studied to become an architect. Lovely Villa is in LIC Colony, Borivali, a housing plan designed by Charles Correa which represents an imagination of the ideal community for a modern India.

The Speaker:

Avijit Mukul Kishore is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Mumbai, working in documentary and inter-disciplinary moving-image practices. A graduate from the Film and Television Training Institute (FTII), Pune, he is now involved in cinema pedagogy as a lecturer and curates film programmes for prominent national cultural institutions. 

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