The Matrimandir: honouring Piero

The first part of a film The Matrimandir: Honouring Piero Cicionesi was shown at Cinema Paradiso on August 28th. The film, says its maker François Gautier, shows the true story of the Matrimandir, from the beginning till its completion, which, he writes, “would never have been built without Piero’s quiet and unceasing efforts, day after day, for twenty five years. Every morning, he would come with the drawings and the calculations he had made the night before, without any computer or electronic device. He was there from the excavation till the installing of the crystal globe in the Chamber. It is this beautiful inner Chamber that we owe to him. Yet, credit was never properly given to Piero, as he never pushed himself forward.”