Scattered across India are architectural anomalies.

Built between the 1950s and early 1980s, these hybrid modernist buildings -- combining elements of European and Indian architecture -- are the remnants of an optimistic period of change in India's history.

"A building is a lot like the face of a person," says Stefanie Zoche who, with her partner Sabine Haubitz, photographed cinemas in South India between 2011 and 2014. "If you watch it carefully, you can read a lot in it."

And, indeed, the buildings speak to an intriguing history.