Event overview
Professor Franco La Cecla - CUCR Seminar, in collaboration with Laboratorio di Ricerca sulle Città, Università di Bologna.
Franco La Cecla, anthropologist, urbanist, writer and director, tells the story of his trip through Bombay/Mumbai in search of a producer for his film about the censorship of the kiss in Bollywood films. Pursuing his favourite actress, he finds himself increasingly lost in Bombay daily life. The city becomes the main character in his quest through Bollywood Studios, where he is trapped in crazy traffic, among corrupt politicians and in elephantine building projects. Franco La Cecla’s journal is a tragi-comic attempt to describe Bombay/Mumbai ‘s daily life without an appeal to exotic stereotypes or the evasions of a "spiritual quest". The book he presents is an extraordinary account of an India unfamiliar in Europe, though it is the stuff of Bollywood films - an India that continues its tortuous and ambiguous relationship with the West.
Franco La Cecla teaches cultural anthropology at the University San Raffaele, Milan and at the EPFL, Lausanne. He has taught at Venice (IUAV), Barcelona (UPC), and Berkeley (UCB). His publications include "Against Architecture"(PM Press, San Francisco) and “The culture of Ethics" (Chicago U. Press). La Cecla has been consultant to Renzo Piano and to the Mayor of Barcelona and he is president of ASIA, Architecture Social Impact Development. Together with the director Stefano Savona, he has produced the documentary “Sicilia Tunisia, un confine di specchi” and “Gestualites Indiennes, Les portables en Inde”. (Centre Pompidou).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Apr 2013 | 4:00pm |
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