TEAM
 
NITIN BATHLA is an architect, artist, and educator currently pursuing Doctoral Studies at ETH Zurich. His work focuses on labour migration, land ecology, and housing in the extended urban region of Delhi. Aside from academic writing, he work on films, community art projects, and social design projects. www.nitinbathla.com

KLEARJOS EDUARDO PAPANICOLAOU is a Greek/Mexican filmmaker interested in ethnography as a filmmaking methodology. His films and collaborations include 'The Seven Sisters Indoor Market' (2016), 'The Disappearance of Robin Hood' (2018), and 'Not Just Roads' (2020). He is currently based in Zürich, where he teaches ethnographic filmmaking at the urban scale at the ETHZ.

LUDWIG BERGER is a sound artist and electroacoustic composer. Gravitating around the practice of field recording, his sonic pieces and installations explore more-than-human worlds. He composes music and sound for film, theatre and radio. As research assistant at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich, he studies the sonic dimension of landscapes. 

CLAUDIA SINATRA is an  architect,  urban  designer  and  researcher  with  degrees  from  the  University  of  Ferrara  (MArch  hons)  and  the  London  School  of  Economics  and  Political  Science  (MSc  City  Design  and  Social Science). Currently based in Zürich, her work lies at the intersection of urban design, urban planning, and graphic design. She is a licensed architect in Italy as well as a member of the Academy of Urbanism - Young Urbanists Network and Lares - Verein für gender- und alltagsgerechtes Planen und Bauen.

METAXIA MARKAKI is an architect, researcher and educator. After completing her studies at NTUA Athens, ENSAPLV Paris and ETH Zurich, she developed her independent practice through projects, teaching and writing. She is currently a tutor and PhD candidate at the ETH Landscape and Urban Studies Institute investigating peripheral landscapes of the Greek countryside.


SCREENINGS

Architecture Film Festival London 2021, Shortlisted for the international film competition (World Premier), United Kingdom
DocAviv International Documentary Festival 2021, Shortlisted for Beyond the Screen competition, Israel
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2021, Netherlands
Copenhagen Architecture Festival 2021, Denmark
All living things Environmental Film Festival 2021, India
Dharamshala International Film Festival 2021, India
EATSA Film Festival 2021, Portugal
Regard Bleu Ethnographic Film Festival 2022
Indian Documentary Film Festival Of Bhubaneswar 2022
International Symposium on Film, Architecture, and Urban Studies 2022
Syracuse Architecture University - November 2022
Grupo CASA, Institute of Social and Political Studies, State University of Rio de Janeiro - November 2022
Georg-Simmel-Zentrum, Humboldt University, Sinema Transtopia, Berlin, 2022
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, 2022
A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine, 2022
Public Programme - Critical Zones exhibition, Goethe Institute, Colombo
12th Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival, Brazil, 2023

January 2023 India Road Tour:
Chandigarh College of Architecture, Chandigarh
Think Matter, Goa
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute For Architecture And Environmental Studies, Mumbai
Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Institute, New Delhi
Ambedkar University, Delhi
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Recipient - Society of Architectural Historians Award for Film and Video 2022
Nominated for Beyond the Screen competition, DocAviv International Documentary Festival 2021, Israel
Nominated for International Film Competition, Architecture Film Festival London 2021

PAPERS & NEWS COVERAGE

Not Just Roads
Momen El-Husseiny, AbdouMaliq Simone, Llerena Guiu Searle, D. Asher Ghertner & Sandra Jasper
The AAG Review of Books  Volume 9, 2021 - Issue 4

Reframing the contested city through ethnographic film: beyond the expository on housing and the urban,
International Journal of Housing Policy, 2020

Not Just Roads – A sensory immersion into urban transformations shaping in the peripheries of Delhi

​Films that offer a space for discussion on complex environmental issues, Mongabay, 2021

CONTACT
notjustroadsfilm@gmail.com