In this conversation artist Rohini Devasher and cosmologist Satya Gontcho A Gontcho will think together about the modes and methods of observation, the ways of paying attention and the importance of storytelling in the practice of artists and astronomers.
In the early 1960s, Louis I. Kahn was invited by the West Pakistani government to design the buildings that would serve as their eastern capital, which, after the East Pakistani freedom struggle, became the Capital Complex of Bangladesh. Sundaram Tagore’s 8-year film-making journey is a tribute Kahn’s famous Parliamentary Complex Sher-e Bangla Nagor, also known as the Tiger City’. In order to make this feature-length documentary film, Tagore’s quest led him to more than fourteen countries to find out how this visionary American architect built such a daringly modern and monumental complex in Bangladesh.
