Chandigarh’s modern architecture is explored through Le Corbusier’s early writings on repetition and order. The architect’s zealous ideals taken from his 1929 The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning are revisited via the buildings and symbolism of the planned capital city.
Also in this combined programme
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As Much Time as Space
Ingenious cinematic intervention by artist Katja Mater creates visual dialogue between her drawings and the interior of the Van Doesburg house in -
Monelle
Girls lie asleep in a modernist building, lit up for only an instant by flashes of light. A horror movie with a jolly ending. -
Enigmatic Whisper
A joyous game with 16mm images and sound from kinetic objects in the studio where Alexander Calder (1898-1976) still seems present. -
The Distance Between Us
Audio letters of an immigrant family in Molenbeek bear witness to the pain and yearning of the ones who stayed behind. A haunted audiovisual mantra.
Film details
- Countries of production
- India, New Zealand
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
