BackHeritage » Saigon Events » Moving Reels - A Social Dialog #1: Vietnam Looks At South Asia @ The Factory Contemporary Art Centre

Have you ever crossed the small houses in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, the rows of shop houses in Cho Lon, or a Saigonese villa from the French colonial period, and imagined,’Who are the people who live here?’; ‘What is life like for people who used to, or are still living there?’; ‘How is their life, hope, and dream reflected by the interior of their house?’.

The inaugural workshop Moving Reels #1 invites you to explore these questions with our first art video selection from India, ‘Nostalgia for the Future’ to revisit the architectural stories of Vietnam and the intersection between Vietnamese and Indian society. 

This video looks at four distinct imaginations of homes and bodies across examples of buildings made over the period of a century. It explores the relationships between these spaces and the bodies that were imagined to inhabit them, and uses these connections as vantage points to analyze how the concept of Indian modern architecture intertwines with the collective shaping and reinventing of a nation and/by its citizens.

Register for the discussion that follows this video screening, led by Dr Shweta Kishore, film studies scholar and curator at RMIT, and Mel Schenk, architectural historian based in Ho Chi Minh City. This discussion will focus on how cinema and architecture are deployed for the nation-building project in Vietnam. 

Due to limitation and to ensure the quality of the program, this workshop is for registration only. Register here (https://goo.gl/3qu2Hf) to secure your seats. 

For more information about Moving Reels project, this workshop and speakers, please visit: https://goo.gl/2YM1vX

 

 

Wednesday, 4 July

6:30pm - 9:30pm

The Factory Contemporary Art Centre | 15 Nguyen Uu Di, Thao Dien, D2, Ho Chi Minh City

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