“Not Just Roads” Q&A and Workshop
Document Type
Video
Date
Winter 11-22-2022
Disciplines
Construction Engineering | Other Architecture | Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Description/Abstract
This event is presented by the Unlearning the Urban Seminar and co-sponsored by the South Asia Center at Syracuse University.
Please join filmmakers Nitin Bathla and Klearjos Papanicoloau for a Q&A and documentary film workshop on Zoom. The workshop is open to the public. Students as well as faculty who use documentary in their research and teaching are encouraged to attend. No previous experience in filmmaking is required.
Not Just Roads (2021)
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, which will add a total of 65,400 kilometres of highways to the existing network in India. While the highways aim to open new territories for the emerging Indian middle class. Currently, the territory is inhabited by villages, working class communities, and nomadic herders. It is criss-crossed by native trails and vital ecological commons. This film captures the story of one such highway, the Dwarka Expressway outside Delhi, from the perspective of human and non-human actors. It presents the story of working class neighbourhoods that were demolished to make way for the highway, the construction workers that will never be able to afford living in the gated communities, The story captures protests against the unbridled road-making, and the persuasive pitches by the real estate salesmen trying to piece a living through selling dream homes.
Directed, written, and produced by Nitin Bathla and Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
First released June 4, 2021
Run time: 67 minutes
Recommended Citation
BATHLA, NITIN and PAPANICOLAOU, KLEARJOS EDUARDO, "“Not Just Roads” Q&A and Workshop" (2022). School of Architecture Lectures Series. 303.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_lectures/303
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Additional Information
Awards and Nominations
NITIN BATHLA
KLEARJOS EDUARDO PAPANICOLAOU
“Not Just Roads” Q&A and Workshop