DECAYING MODERNITIES
2014, Chandigarh, India, With Metaxia Markaki
Chandigarh the ville de Beton Brt celebrated its 50 years of completion recently. This photo series captures the city in perpetual decay and the aesthetic of decay. The hybidisation that the inhabitants are bringing to this city and how a pirate modernity is taking over the city.
DELHI
WITHOUT
BORDERS
لامحدود دہلی
असीमित दिल्ली
NOT
JUST
ROADS
असीम सड़कें
لا محدود سڑکیں
NOT JUST ROADS is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India.
Highways are being constructed at an unprecedented rate of 23 kilometers per day under the Indian government's Bharatmala (‘Garland of Limitless Roads’) program. The program aims to open new territories for the emerging Indian middle class. Currently, the territory is inhabited by villages, working class neighbourhoods, and nomadic herders. It is criss-crossed by native trails and vital ecological commons. This film captures the story of one such highway outside Delhi, from the perspective of human and non-human actors.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
2:39:1, 70’, DCP, Colour, India, Switzerland, Germany
DIRECTED, WRITTEN, & PRODUCED BY
Nitin Bathla and Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
WITH SUPPORT FROM
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, India Office
Andromeda Film AG
ETH Zürich
FILM STILLS
CINEMATOGRAPHY AND SOUND RECORDING
Nitin Bathla
EDITING
Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
MUSIC, SOUND DESIGN AND MIXING
Ludwig Berger
POST-PRODUCTION
Patrick Lindenmaier, Davide Legittimo,
Andromeda Film AG
GRAPHIC AND TITLE DESIGN
Claudia Sinatra & Metaxia Markaki
