Cinema City is a project to consolidate the watermarks of urban public culture practices in the 20th century through a circular format of research, documentation, intervention and production, archiving and reading archives into art and text productions.

Cities and cinema are the twins of 20th century. With the emergence of nation-sate, cities as the epicenter of the nation-state; urbanity as an amalgamation of industrialization, migration and movement of people and goods; the 20th century created a prototype of public, public places and public imaginations. Cinema City project enquires into this configuration through the watermarks in the city, memories of its citizens, cinema making conventions and production processes. It aims to function as an interface between cartography, filmmaking, visual and sound art practices and critical texts.

Currently the project focuses on the city of Bombay /Mumbai. But it has the ambition of expanding to other cinema producing metropolises in Asia and thus evolve as an Asian archive of cinema Cities.

Link:
http://www.majlisbombay.org/godaam_cinemacity.htm
http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/de/forum/programm/forum-expanded.html