Leaving Delhi
Canadian architect Luc Durand studied in Switzerland with Montparnasse Tower's Eugene Beaudoin, built numerous structures in Nehru's India, designed both the Quebec Pavilion for the iconic Expo ’67 and the monumental Athletes’ Housing complex for the 1976 Olympic Games. Now at 84, he's back in New Delhi and drifts in India's capital looking for his numerous projects but instead finds an amnesiac city morphed into a gigantic megalopolis. “Leaving Delhi” offers a fascinating yet witty dialogue between East and West, past and present, hope and pragmatism, urban planning and late capitalism.
Filmmaker and curator Etienne Desrosiers studied cinema and comparative literature in Montreal. Since 1995, he has directed fifteen films broadcast on television and screened worldwide, most notably at the Centre Georges-Pompidou, including “Roger D’Astous”, “Miroirs d’été” (2007), starring Xavier Dolan. His awards include Best Film at the Festival del Palazzo Venetia and Best Film for Youth at the Reggio Film Festival. His curatorial practice has encompassed Luc Durand's retrospective in five Canadian cities (2009–14), three monograph, and numerous essays, for publications such as Domus Magazine. He has curated presentations internationally, at the Australian Film and Television Institute, London's Lux Centre, and Moscow's Kino35. In 1995, he organized the first Situationist films retrospective in North America. He was a photographer for the Eastern Townships Film Commission, has written for the National Film Board of Canada , and has worked with Todd Haynes (I’m Not There) and John Maybury (Love Is The Devil).
