{"id":7835,"date":"2017-11-07T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:46:14","slug":"heeryoon-shin-featured-in-november-9-panel-discussion-of-film-on-indian-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2017\/11\/heeryoon-shin-featured-in-november-9-panel-discussion-of-film-on-indian-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"Heeryoon Shin Featured in November 9 Panel Discussion of Film on Indian Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7839\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2017\/11\/nostalgia-for-the-future-film-stills13.jpg\" alt=\"nostalgia-for-the-future-film-stills13\" width=\"644\" height=\"386\" \/>Nostalgia for the Future <\/em>is a film about modernity, the making of the Indian citizen and the architecture of the home. It is a collaboration between filmmaker Avijit Mukul Kishore and architect Rohan Shivkumar, emerging from the intersection of their respective disciplines&#8212;architecture and documentary film&#8212;both of which have been ingrained in the discourse of utilitarianism and certainty. The film explores the role of architecture and film in imagining and constructing a nation and its citizenry.<\/p>\n<p>After the 54-minute screening on Thursday, November 9, at 4:10 pm in Cohen Memorial Hall, Heeryoon Shin, assistant professor of history of art, and Akshya Saxena, assistant professor of English, will participate in a panel discussion with the film directors. A reception will follow in the atrium of Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus.<\/p>\n<p>The film examines four buildings created over the period of a century: Lukshmi Vilas Palace in Baroda&#8212;the gigantic home built by a progressive monarch in the late 19th century; Villa Shodhan in Ahmedabad&#8212;a private residence designed by Le Corbusier and representing the idea of domesticity within Nehruvian modernity; Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, which epitomizes the Gandhian aspirations of the nation-state; and public housing in post-independence Delhi, designed by the Government of India to house refugees from Pakistan and the bureaucrats of the newly independent nation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7842\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2593\/2017\/11\/nostalgia-for-the-future-film-stills17.jpg\" alt=\"nostalgia-for-the-future-film-stills17\" width=\"378\" height=\"229\" \/>The film explores these spaces and imagines the bodies that were meant to inhabit them through the evocation of the cinematic and aural collective memory of a nation. It uses a mix of formats&#8212;16mm film and digital video in both color and black and white, along with archival footage from state propaganda films and mainstream cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Avijit Mukul Kishore\u00a0is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Mumbai, working in documentary and interdisciplinary moving-image practices.\u00a0Rohan Shivkumar\u00a0is an architect and an urban designer practicing in Mumbai, and Deputy Director at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies.<\/p>\n<p>The event is sponsored by the Departments of History of Art, Cinema and Media Arts, Asian Studies, Political Science, and History.<\/p>\n<p>*Stills from <em>Nostalgia for the Future<\/em> (2017) directed by Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgia for the Future is a film about modernity, the making of the Indian citizen and the architecture of the home. 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