Kiran Nadar Museum of Art invites you to the screening of

NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE

film by Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar.

(Hindi and English with subtitles, Duration: 54 mins)

11th December 2018, Tuesday, 6.30 pm onwards

‘Nostalgia for the Future’ is a film on Indian modernity, the making of the citizen and the

architecture of the home. It looks at four distinct imaginations of homes and bodies across

examples of buildings made over the period of a century. The film explores these spaces and the

bodies that were imagined to inhabit them through the evocation of the cinematic and aural

collective memory of a nation reinventing itself.

The film is a collaboration between film maker Avijit Mukul Kishore and architect Rohan Shivkumar.

It emerges from the intersection of their respective disciplines – architecture and documentary

film, both of which have been ingrained in the discourse of utilitarianism and certainty. The film

opens these disciplines out to self-critique and looks at their role in imagining and constructing a

nation and its citizen.

The film is produced by Films Division India, the documentary film producing organisation of the

Government of India.

The film won the Best documentary prize at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala,

Trivandrum, India, June 2017 and Jury’s Special Mention at Signs Festival, Kochi, India, 2017.

The screening is an ancillary event as part of the exhibition

‘Bauhaus Imaginista: Moving Away’ currently on view at the Museum.

Screening shall be followed by a short interactive session with the filmmakers.