Nostalgia for the Future (54 min; 2017; dvd; Hindi & English with subtitles)

 

 

Directed by Avijit Mukul Kishore & Rohan Shivkumar who will introduce the film

Produced by Films Division

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Shohini Ghosh, MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

Nostalgia for the Future is an experimental film essay that explores the conception of the body of the citizen, the nation and the home in modern India. The film is a journey through four distinct imaginations of homes and bodies across examples of buildings built over a century – Laxmi Vilas Palace in Baroda; Villa Shodhan in Ahmedabad; the Sabarmati Ashram; and public housing in post-independence Delhi