For 42 years, around 210.000 Saharawi have been living in

camps in the Algerian desert due to the occupation of the Western Sahara by Morocco.

The Saharawi are waiting for a promised referendum, which should enable them to

decide on their future and the usage of their homeland.

"February 27th“ is a national holiday and the name of the camp in which the film takes

place.

The film uses tableaus to tell about the life in the camps and about the difficulties of a

temporary existence in exile. An existence that evolved into a home against their will

and to this day represents a symbol of resistance and resilience. At the same time, it

depicts their longing for a lost land that many Saharawi just know from stories but still

call their home.

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A Trip to the Moon or Voyage to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black-and-white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon.

At a meeting of astronomers, their president proposes a trip to the Moon. After addressing some dissent, six brave astronomers agree to the plan. They build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet, and a huge cannon to shoot it into space. The astronomers embark and their capsule is fired from the cannon with the help of "marines", most of whom are portrayed as a bevy of beautiful women in sailors' outfits, while the rest are men. The Man in the Moon watches the capsule as it approaches, and it hits him in the eye.

Like many of Méliès's films, A Trip to the Moon was sold in both black-and-white and hand-colored versions. A hand-colored print, the only one known to survive, was rediscovered in 1993 by the Filmoteca de Catalunya. It was in a state of almost total decomposition, but a frame-by-frame restoration was launched in 1999 and completed in 2010 at the Technicolor Lab of Los Angeles- and after West Wing Digital Studios matched the original hand tinting by colorizing the damaged areas of the newly restored black and white. The restored version finally premiered on May 11, 2011, eighteen years after its discovery and 109 years after its original release, at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, with a new soundtrack by the French band Air.

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A french woman, rivers, abandoned constructions in the water, deserted streets during the summer, a bridge, a lot of buildings, secret guardians, a circus, and more stories that happen in a city.

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ASCONA shows a place that seems to have fallen out of time, that has not changed since the 1950s but still exists. A miniature golf course becomes a social analysis analogy. ASCONA shows protagonists who with dry humour describe the beginnings and difficulties of the course and the sport - between leisure and professional sport.  Reflecting the conversatism of the 1950s ASCONA features a cross-section of society.

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Hidden among the mountains north of Beijing, a replica of the Wyoming town of Jackson Hole promises to deliver the American dream to its several thousand Chinese residents. In Americaville, Annie Liu escapes China’s increasingly uninhabitable capital city to pursue happiness, freedom, romance, and spiritual fulfillment in Jackson Hole; only to find the American idyll harder to attain than what was promised to her.

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Left Bank is a suburb of Antwerp. This piece of land, surrounded by highways, industry and a river, is cut off from the city and lives its own life. For decades it has been the perfect wasteland to project plans for the future city. Napoleon, Le Corbusier, Henri Van de Velde and many others dreamed about having their ultimate city on this lost bank.Annapolis, Giant City is a film in which architecture and urban design are directly related with the people who there. In our human urge to control things, we continuously make plans for our lives and cities.

In 1982 the new French president Mitterrandopens  a blind competition, to build anopera at the  site of the notoriousBastille prison The jury seems to have found the best design, by prominent Americanarchitect Richard Meier. Or so they thought.

Until the Minister of Culture blanches andstumbles through the name Carlos Ott, Canadian. No one has heard of him and he hasnever built anything. They chose the wrong guy?

Hastily informed, Carlos flies to Pariswith an expired passport and is tossed into an airport holding cell forimmediate deportment. Official panic ensues. Things get worse from there.

But like French politics, nothing is whatit appears. A year later when Jacques Chirac is elected Prime Minister, he hatesMitterrand and works to stop the Opera When Carlos Ott receives Chirac`s stopwork order, the money is cut off. It seems that all the sacrifice is for naught.

Building Bastille is a feature lengthdocumentary that tells the comic, dramatic and tangled story of modernhistory’s greatest case of mistaken identity and seized opportunity.

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An experimental documentary exploring the fate of grand Soviet-style buildings and monuments erected during the communist era (1945-89) in countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Moving along the spiral from Moscow to Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Pristina, Tirana and Sofia, the film mixes and fuses the past and present conditions of administrative buildings, museums, monuments, working class homes, communist party headquarters, hotels, and panel housing projects. The series of ten short films examines the often dramatic changes in public attitudes to these relics of our recent past, which were built with the intention that they would last forever.

Film was released in September 2017. Prague premiere on 29 September in CAMP / World premiere on 6 October 2017 at ArchFilm Lund Festival in Sweden.

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Somewhere in the gigantic human anthill of Tokyo, a man resists to the infernal machinery of the great metropolis.
Alone, for 15 years, he built this resistance in the form of a house.
A shell? A cathedral? A folly? The work of Keisuke Oka escapes any simple definition.
We should rather speak of a world, a small universe built and thought in a rare freedom. Trained in butoh dance, an avant-garde choreographic movement born in Japan in the 1960s, Oka makes architecture a performance. Conceived day after dayin the mode of improvisation, the space that slowly emerges is a form of moving meditation. A total work of art, the Arimastonbuilding is the imprint in the concrete of a man’s life. This film tells this adventure at a very special moment in its history.Following new urban regulations, the Arimaston building was recently threatened with destruction by the city of Tokyo forbeing too close to the street and neighboring buildings. The only solution would be to move it 10 meters back.

Pending the outcome of the current trial, the site had to be stopped.
Like the building, this film is an improvisation. Beka & Lemoine met Keisuke Oka by chance the day he chose to build, beforethe total stop of the project, the last 3 steps of the staircase that will lead to the top floor.
ButoHouse is a film about concrete, illumination, perseverance and hope.

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The film is the first part of a Daylight Trilogy, which addresses the topic of daylighting at three scales: the human scale , the building scale, and the urban scale. In this first part entitled “Humans”, the film explores the benefits of daylight for humans, focusing on circadian health, work and learning performance, social ability, visual performance, and energy-efficiency. Through interviews with experts in the field the film seeks to present research results on daylighting in a format accessible to the broader audience.

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Så enkelt som möjligt! Det var den legendariske arkitekten Carl Nyréns motto, vare sig han ritade kyrkor eller skolor. Filmaren Sven Blume är på jakt efter sin morfar – och finner en framstående arkitekt. Med hjälp av egna familjefilmer och andras intervjuer har han gjort ett personligt porträtt av såväl den undflyende morfadern som av hans yrkesgärning.

Arkitekten och konstnären Le Corbusier ansåg att av världens kyrkor är Peterskyrkan, Notre Dame och Västerortskyrkan, ritad av Nyrén, de tre vackraste.

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Keaton plays a botany student who is accidentally awarded an electrical engineering degree. He then attempts to wire a home using many gadgets. The man to whom the degree should have been awarded then exacts revenge by rewiring those gadgets to cause mayhem.

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The film will be screened with live music by Malmö Inre.

Drums, turntables and electronics by Markus Bergqvist och Tomas Melinder

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Enter Through The Balcony is a Documentary Short about Ukrainian make-shift balconies.The film explores the phenomenon of the balcony as a small architectural form. Enter Through The Balcony is a  journey through the decades. It is a look inside balconies and their owners in cities across Ukraine. It is a balanced and in depth view of the balconies from their owners, employees of city councils, historians, sociologists, urbanists, developers and architects. Through the history of the balconies film explores the history of Post-Soviet Ukraine — life, culture, and the relationships between personal and public space in cities. An engaging love letter to Ukraine and its people, Enter Through the Balcony examines how architecture can be a curious pathway to a deeper understanding of culture and place.

The film is about a project called Hage, a new public garden for Råängen. It has been designed by Norwegian architects Brendeland & Kristoffersen and is the first permanent work to be commissioned for Lunds Domkyrka, on the the church’s land on the outskirts of Lund. A project for Lunds Domkyrka, documented by HolsterGreen Studio and LangFilm.

Hage opened to the public in 2021. It is open to all, it is a response to the question of how to build a new community: start with social space.

Photo: Martin Lang

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Kwaidan (怪談, Kaidan, literally "ghost stories") is a 1965 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales, mainly Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) , for which it is named. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories. Kwaidan is an archaic transliteration of the term kaidan, meaning "ghost story". The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival,and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. (Wikipedia)

The scenography splendidly recreates architectural and landscape environments inspired by japanese folklore.

An experimental montage of footage from 1973, shot in an Institution in Hamburg/Germany, where back then people lived, who were judged to be mentally sick. Soundloops and pictures create a certain attention for the viewer.

The film follows a construction photographer on the last day of his job on a newly-finished building in Seoul. Walking inside and outside of the building, the photographer is looking for one iconic image of an iconic building, while contemplating the possibility of such an image altogether. Experiencing the architecture of the building and its surrounding by following his moving body, the voice over reads the character's thoughts on the relationship between the built environment and its images, especially the entanglement of modern architecture and narrative cinema. The film is based on around 30 interviews with members of the architecture team at David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, about the future of the newly-finished building. It features real characters involved in the design and the construction of the building, notably the architect as the narrator and the main construction photographer as the actor. In this way, the film reflects on architecture and film as both imaginative endeavors that are dependent on capital and collective labor and have their limitations and inimitable qualities.

LEFT BEHIND offers a mysterious "vision" of a warehouse that is today a "shadow of itself". The short film circles around the themes of presence/absence, empty landscapes, beauty/grace and, by demonstrating that the site is not as "left behind" as perhaps thought, offers a hopeful glimpse into the future of its development.

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Blanka is a woman in her 50s, alone in her apartment and in her life. Matuš, a young and motivated activist, hopes to become councillor of his municipality despite his lack of marketing savvy. A cool real estate agent sells the notion of a happy life through Bratislava apartments. Two collegial road workers paint road markings and when their shift is over, they drink beer in their boarding room and ponder the indifference of the city inhabitants. Danko, a queer music composer, lives in the city center with his mother in a modest flat. He takes long walks, listening to urban sounds, trying to capture the rhythm around him.

From an abandoned military site in Hong Kong with its turbulent history emerges a university’s beautiful reimagining as a new learning center. Now, detainees from the 1967 riots recount the tumultuous times leading to their imprisonment there. Historians and architects together capture the essence of Mount Davis’s past. They have preserved the buildings for future generations to journey back and always remember the perseverance and courage of those who struggled within their walls ...

In the center of Equator Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ilima community remains one of the most isolated in the world. They have coexisted with endangered wildlife in their surrounding forest for generations, but as the pace of development has increased, this fragile ecosystem has suffered. They partnered with the African Wildlife Foundation and MASS Design Group in 2012 to create a new conservation focused primary school and community center - one that had to endure for generations, yet be built almost exclusively using local materials. 

Cinematographer and educator Rachel Brose grew up in the Congo and relocated to Ilima in order to document this entire collective process - one aimed at leveraging local craft and ecological knowledge towards education, preservation, and beauty.

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Norilsk is an impossible kind of place. In this Arctic city, winter lasts for nine months and temperatures plummet to -60°C. Norilsk Nickel, the first worldwide producer of copper and nickel, has dominated life since the city rose from the ashes of the Soviet gulag. More than 180,000 people manage to survive in this closed-off city isolated from the outside world. In looking at their extraordinary daily lives, this film paints a poetic portrait of an extreme city where everyone is looking for a way out.

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MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON is one of the most influential works in American experimental cinema. A non-narrative work, it has been identified as a key example of the "trance film," in which a protagonist appears in a dreamlike state, and where the camera conveys his or her subjective focus.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

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The Metrophonic Orchestra is a silent film-music ensemble, led by the artist and DJ Christopher Nelson. The band is based in southern Sweden and combine earthy, hypnotic, electronic music with instrumental improvisations. The current members are: Dick Heikenskjöld - contrabass, Sofia Sanberg - Viola, Vide Chevalier - keyboard, percussion and Christopher Nelson - sampling, beats, soundscapes.

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One week in the extraordinary-ordinary life of Mr. Moriyama, a Japanese art, architecture and music enlightened amateur wholives in one of the most famous contemporary Japanese architecture, the Moriyama house, built in Tokyo in 2005 by Pritzker-Prize winner Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA).
Introduced in the intimacy of this experimental microcosm which redefines completely the common sense of domestic life, IlaBêka recounts in a very spontaneous and personal way the unique personality of the owner: a urban hermit living in a smallarchipelago of peace and contemplation in the heart of Tokyo. From noise music to experimental movies, the film let us enterinto the ramification of the Mr. Moriyama’s free spirit. Moriyama-San, the first film about noise music, acrobatic reading,silent movies, fireworks and Japanese architecture!

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What is the ideal form of a contemporary house?

Moshe Safdie wrote the original proposal in 1964 when he designed Habitat'67, which became famous. Over the past 50 years, with the concept of continuous iteration, Safdie has "experimented" with several Habitat projects around the world, including the only Haibitai house in Qinhuangdao, China. Combined with the characteristics of the site itself, a new residential form that allows people to live in nature even in the city is constructed.

Of course, it is obviously not enough to make the human body close to nature. Safdie's Habitat also pursues a spiritual ideal: how can architecture give people value beyond space? How to build a new kind of community? How to inspire a new way of life Moshe Safdie: Habitat In Nature, Safdie and Habitat owners share their ideals for new habitats.

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The space became more than this for them: they spent time, hanged around, showed off and practiced other rituals of every-day life inside the Maarad. It became an important part of their individual histories, hopes and dreams. Their energy gave breath of new life to the decaying modernist ruin of Niemeyer's gem, bringing back questions of social meaning of architecture. How did they use the space? What did it mean to them? How were they transforming it? Did it become a place of refuge? Did their ventures inside revitalize the space in subversive way? Can they be seen as transgressions or forms of resistance, even if unconscious? Poetic and reflective rhythm of the film amplifies this meeting between architecture and people, creating contemplative space for the viewer.

Former herder Tumurbaatar works tirelessly as a garbage truck driver in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, striving to better his daughter's education and compete in the modern economy. Torn between life in the city and his home and family in a countryside town, the pressures of distance and separation take a toll. A doctor in the countryside, his wife, Tungaa, maintains her roots and helps tend the family herd, as Tumurbaatar’s visits home reveal fault lines in their marriage and identities. They both speak romantically about retiring as true nomads, but she sees what he does not: his nomadic roots are already lost to the city. In spite of it all, they cling fast to dreams for their children to lead lives they cannot.

The film will be screened with live music by Malmö Inre.

Drums, turntables and electronics by Markus Bergqvist och Tomas Melinder

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“You must’ve seen this chowk (public square) fixed several times over the years, right?” architect and heritage consultant Marvi Mazhar says to tailer Masood ul Hassan as she visits his shop at Pakistan Chowk.

“Don’t ask”, he replies with a smile on his face.

“So, now I’m fixing up the chowk” Marvi tells him. “You must be laughing at me as well and thinking it’ll go back to being a dump.”

Situated in the heart of the historic Arambagh neighbourhood, the once vibrant community space in Karachi had in recent years become a favourite jaunt of drug addicts and a dumping ground for trash. The chowk has been around since the British ruled over the Indian subcontinent.

“Homes were small back then. Women would bring home cooked meals in the evenings and have dinner with their husbands when they came back from work. Girls played on the roundabout, their scarves tied around their necks, playing childhood games. It was a lively place before the authorities made a mess of it” says Masood to Marvi. “Do what you will, the chowk will stay as it is”, he adds as she tells him about her plan to rehabilitate the neglected space and bring back its former charm.

What follows is the story of an urban intervention by Marvi and her team to engage the local community in taking back ownership of their beloved chowk.

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A fervent old man has been building a cathedral with his bare hands for fifty-six years in search of divine peace. But, with the end of his days getting closer, material reality doesn’t seem to live up to his expectation.

With city centres all over the world succumbing to land grabbing through tourism and global capital, more and more pressure will be exerted on their surrounding territories in the form of urban sprawl. While too often neglected, when not derided by the architecture discipline, this middle landscape is the arena where the struggle for the future of human habitation will be fought.

By looking into two diametrically opposite case studies in the European continent (but both outside of the European Union), Switzerland and Kosovo, the former extremely rich and old, the later extremely poor and young, we’re anticipating the conditions in which the future architects will need to operate given the ramping shrinking of public institutions and the ongoing project of inequality, in order to remain relevant.

Through a series of interviews with local and international experts in urban planning, together with drone and car footage, the Parallel Sprawl film tries to better portrait these suburban landscapes and offer some answers and questions about such phenomena.

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The German architect Axel Müller-Schöll loves to draw by hand. A passion born at the beginning of the 80’s as an architecture student in Stuttgart, fed by the lectures of Adolfo Natalini in Florence and carried forward in the daily work as a designer and teacher. Two large safe cases guard more than 70 sketchbooks accumulated in almost 40 years of work: personal and professional memories emerge from the drawings in a passionate stream of consciousness.

Reflections & Projections is a two part Experimental Film combining mediums to capture the human condition of how we see ourselves in others and the way we unconsciously lay our expectations upon them. This Abstract Expressionism series of 35mm still photographs and two experimental videos were produced in Los Angeles and were premiered in 20” x 30” photographic prints and an array of 16 TV screens at Keystone Art Space LA, in July of 2019.http://www.benjamingeorgefineart.com

This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.

You can find more texts here http://www.maxhattler.com/serialparallels/

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Three buildings in former Yugoslavia are the protagonists in this story of war, destruction, collective identity and cultural heritage. These three buildings in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are examples of three different ways societies deal with the structural remnants of an armed conflict.

Simulation of Mr. yellow is a short Experimental Documentary About A journalist (Shahrazad) who travel to her motherland (Syria-Aleppo) to makes reports for the media, in Aleppo a city which is destroyed in war she meets an old Man all covered in yellow dresses. She gets interested to the yellow man and wanted to make report about him, but yellow man doesn’t talk at all. So Shahrazad Start searching for true story of this old man in whispering of War-torn city.

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No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition [...]This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” is also the absurd. Albert Camus, "The myth of Sisyphus"

How are democracy and identity renegotiated in the design and use of public space and cultural heritage in Skopje? Arriving from the very different context of Denmark’s capital Copenhagen and from the field of architecture, this film examines Skopje and the issue of freedom and agency from a spatial perspective. From the Greek agora to Lefebvre’s question of the right to the city, we know that the design, planning and use of public space and cultural heritage are always embedded in various discourses of politics, democracy, identity, culture and - indeed – freedom and agency. In Skopje, this seems particularly apparent and poignant. First, with the demolitions and modernist rebuilding after the tragic 1963 earthquake and subsequently during the historicist-nationalist makeover of Skopje 2014. The film is, among others, investigating ongoing renegotiations of what to do about the new cultural layer of Skopje 2014 and the ambivalent relationship to the rest of Europe and the World, but also the everyday life experience of the city. Together with the Danish-Macedonian architect Daniel Serafimovski, who is familiar with both Skopje and Copenhagen, the film is revisiting different cases of public spaces and cultural heritage through interviews with local experts, archival footage, on-site registrations and voxpops with citizens of Skopje, a city aspiring to become European Capital of Culture in 2028.  

Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites--separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources--to support a soft city approach? In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how this is possible, presenting ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions. Sim shows that increasing density is not enough. The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort, a diversity of building types, and thoughtful design to ensure a sustainable urban environment and society. Soft City begins with the big ideas of happiness and quality of life, and then shows how they are tied to the way we live. The heart of the book is highly visual and shows the building blocks for neighborhoods: building types and their organization and orientation; how we can get along as we get around a city; and living with the weather. As every citizen deals with the reality of a changing climate, Soft City explores how the built environment can adapt and respond. Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment.

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“Sometimes my head gets ahead of me”, is an architectural short about domestic routines.The self indulged morning protocol in everyone’s day life, takes place in an experimental house designed by Teresa Otto, Ottotto Architecture.Architecture is presented as a merely background for normal life, with no pretention or possibility of interfering in the casual debate between inhabitant and their habits, routines, obligations or intuitions.A film by Estudio Imigrante, directed by Gustavo Imigrante.

At the end of 2017, the first social housing unit of the city of Taichung was built.
In Taiwan as a whole, social housing comprises just 0.08% of the housing stock.
Compared with other advanced countries, this figure is significantly low.
Together with the first residents, documentary filmmaker Floor Hofman moved into
the second social housing unit of Taichung a few weeks after its opening. While
living there for four months, Floor talked with residents about how social housing
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When uniform high-rise government housing began sprouting up in newly-independent Singapore, Tan Cheng Siong, a young and idealistic architect aims to bring the community spirit back into the city sky by designing the Pearl Bank Apartments. 50 years later, the residents of the iconic building find themselves working together with the old architect to stop their homes from being demolished for profit-driven purpose. The film intercuts between 1969 when the Pearl Bank Apartment was first conceived and present-day when the high-rise village faces its eventual demise in capitalistic Singapore.Inspired by true events.