God Particle : film by Arghya Basu

It was really my admiration for Italo Spinelli’s Asiatica initiative coupled with his personal charm, idiosyncrasy and an unfinished affair in India that got me on the flight to Rome via Mumbai. After having been intrigued with his unique invite to participate in the Archive to the East / Memory of the World Project wherein one would be given entry to the Luce Cinecitta Archives and a camera to shoot in Rome… it was my turn to open a personal Pandora’s Box- the footages I’d shot over the years across generations of Digital Cameras.
Cinecitta was being converted into an Amusement Theme Park I was told at the Coffee Corner down the corridor, Fellini’s cradle and homeland. Clearly it mattered to everybody around.