Festival day 1
Welcome to mingle and screening !
October 13, 2023
Grand Opening
17:00
J. Sundbergs Arkitektkontor + Kino
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17:00 Opening of the festival with mingle, Johan Sundbergs Arkitektkontor
18:00 Screening of Soviet Bus Stops + 2 short films: Spatial Bodies and Caring from Courtesy of Filmform Kino
Kristoffer Hegnsvad
Festival day 2
Films, debate, exhibition & party!
October 14, 2023
Screenings & Debate
11:00
Grand Hotel, Piraten salen
Free entrance, no booking required
12:00-13:20 Thema: The strength of the collective
12-13:20 Slums: Cities of tomorrow
Lunch pause
15:00 -16:00 Debate: Collective living, in presence of Marta Dauliute, director of Good Life, and other guests (list to come)
Moderator: David Sim, Softer
Coffee pause
16:15-17:00 Official competition part 1
How shall we comfort ourselves
17:15-18:15 Films by Architecture Students in Lund
Theme: Communication spaces & Sky is the limit
18:30-19:30 Official competition part 2
19:30 Prize Ceremony
Exhibition & Projections
13:00
Bantorget 4 and outside.
Free entrance
13:20 Opening for exhibition "SKY IS THE LIMIT" , brunch , short movies
Max Holzheu: A legacy of Guatemalan Brutalist Architecture
20:00 Outdoor projections on the facade with original creations and selection "remix"
Art projections on the facade, by Otto Vretare
5:9 (Courtesy of Filmform)
The video follows the everyday activity in a office building in Stockholm. Shot in secret from a distance during dark hours, Lundin gathered material for several weeks that was later edited.The result becomes a condensed reality in which time and space have been manipulated. Lundin is not particularly interested in the office workers doing the 9-5, rather, they represent all of us, turning our gaze inwards: How is it that we choose to live our lives?
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5:9 (Courtesy of Filmform)
A Pile of Ghosts
A ghost story of urbanization. The last hotel, which has been condemned for demolition like the rest of the town, is still standing. The owner Charles imagines himself with a female visitor in the scenes of a Hollywood classic. The vexing interplay of documentary and fiction, in which construction workers, investors and real estate agents appear, takes place in contemporary China, where cities are built entirely on speculation, dictated by the fictions of capitalism.
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A Pile of Ghosts
Afterwards
A gesture of post-mortem cinema: spaces devoid of tangible life take on a spectral atmosphere, as though considered through the eyes of the departed. A spatial expedition through a deconstructed Berlin ensues, existential in its storytelling and political in its focus on an individual's trauma.
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Afterwards
Caring (Courtesy of Filmform)
Caring discusses issues of care in architecture and takes its starting point from Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium in Finland.
An antidote to crowded cities and the spread of disease such as tuberculosis, the sanatorium as an architectural model both encapsulated and concretised the ideals of Modernism.Designed and constructed to prioritise the health of its residents, it provided a medical context – treatment made manifest through architecture. Designed by Alvar Aalto and completed in 1932, the sanatorium was conceived as “a medical instrument” to deliver respite and recovery through rest, fresh air, and sunlight. An ideal implemented on a holistic scale: furniture, interior architecture, architectural design, and the building’s location within vast panoramic pine forests.
The small details captured on camera are gently revealed during the film, like small shining objects hidden beneath a soft cloth – the artist draws back the felt blanket to share her viewpoint as visitor to the Paimio sanatorium. The sunshine yellow linoleum that creeps up the walls, negating the corner where floor meets wall, softening the hard lines, eliminating that groove where dirt, dust and germs might collect. The cut-out in the wall profile which allows the window to open inwards, presumably enabling both cleaning and the inward flow of fresh air; the timeless mechanisms of the windows, demonstrated by the sanatorium’s guide, who gesticulates animatedly in explanation. All are observed and recorded in a careful gathering of details both human and architectural (Excerpt from the text “On Caring and Carrying” by Jas Hinks)
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Caring (Courtesy of Filmform)
Das Retirée or the last house of my father
If you were to design your dream house now that you're at the end of your life, what would it look like? This question from the filmmaker to her father, retired architect Karlhans Pfleiderer, is the starting point of Das Retirée or the last house of my father. Slowly but surely, the house takes form, first drawn on shifting layers of transparent paper, then glued into a scale model. Between the words and the gestures, the film of the daughter becomes the father’s last house, a space in which unspoken words, unfulfilled desires can appear, disclosing coping-mechanisms that have survived several generations.
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Das Retirée or the last house of my father
Docking
Seasonally, street sleepers in Kwun Tong Public Pier need to move out like the tide falls during the pier clearance by authorities, and move back to the pier like the tide rises afterwards. A mobile unit prototype is built with street sleepers themselves to deal with the seasonal clearance.. By enhancing the efficiency of moving in and out, the project hope to stretch the tension between authorities, public and street sleepers.
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Docking
Ephemeral Landmark
"Ephemeral Landmark" is a thought-provoking and visually captivating performance that delves into the profound impacts of rapid urbanisation on the Zhuihong Bridge Scenic Spot in Suzhou, China. The film centers around a site-specific performance art piece, brought to life by a British artist and accompanied by a commissioned soundtrack composed by Roberto Iguña.
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Ephemeral Landmark
Fantoomwijk
FANTOOMWIJK is the urgent, unsettling, and experimental work by director Ravi Sandberg, about the Tweebosbuurt in Rotterdam. The bespoken neighborhood was demolished to make way for luxury housing, forcing residents to leave their homes. FANTOOMWIJK gives voice to the evicted locals of a neighborhood that was once a bustling part of the city. A gripping short film about the human cost of urban development, representing the global issue of gentrification in big cities.
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Fantoomwijk
For Everyone a Garden
Acclaimed architect, urban planner and theorist Moshe Safdie achieved worldwide recognition when his very first building, Habitat 67, proved to be eminently viable. The pioneering housing project was designed around Safdie’s guiding metaphor—“For Everyone A Garden”—which espouses his belief that green space, natural light and fresh air are basic human rights. Five decades later, the foundational principles of his design philosophy seem more important than ever before.
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For Everyone a Garden
Glythe
Storyline : Glythe finds herself in the middle of brutalist futuristic constructions, replacing the organic environment that she used to know. The bare building materials start moving and dissolving into sand, reminding Glythe of the magic that she once recognized in the organic world. Surreal elements of digital art and the memory of a dreamy garden will help her find peace, freedom of motion and happiness in the artificial environment that now surrounds her.
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Glythe
Good Life
What happens when corporate storytelling becomes part of one's innermost self and community becomes a commodity?
While home office became an everyday option, Good Life is a gentle and critical look at a co-living startup, where the vision for 24/7 integration of work, networking, self-management and private life is being tested with even higher, limitless and global ambition. Guided by observations and questioning of the two female directors, the new world of innovation, insecure jobs, efficiency, flexibility and personal adaptation is put under test. What happens when corporate storytelling becomes part of one's innermost self and community becomes a commodity?
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Good LifeHow shall we comfort ourselves.
The short tableau documentary "How shall we comfort ourselves." takes us on a journey to a dozen repurposed church buildings in the Netherlands. From a fitness gym to a hardcore rave, all Inside the same walls where religion once was practiced. This film dogmatically explores our ever-evolving society and its endless search for meaning.
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How shall we comfort ourselves.
Lo-tech reality
Against the post-industrial landscape of Detroit, visitors arrive from the sky in search of knowledge. They find nothing but traces of civilization, and a coded transmission between the images and sounds of the city.
Against the post-industrial landscape of Detroit, visitors arrive from the sky in search of knowledge. They find nothing but traces of civilization, and a coded transmission between the images and sounds of the city.In Detroit, the emptiness evokes a dream from the past: the capitalist dream of Fordism derived in a Lo-Tech nightmare. Its streets, their scale unbalanced in relation to the life on them, and its abandoned industrial structures, reflect the possibility of a programming failure in capitalism in the heart of its Mecca, the United States. Now, more than ever, after witnessing how images that belong to future dystopian worlds have become a reality during confinement, the empty spaces are a reminder of our fragility. But, camouflaged in the empty space, there are forms of resilience that want to electrify the Inner City with Hi-Tech dreams from Lo-Tech realities.
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Lo-tech reality
MOVE
MOVE is an experimental short film that explores the influence of architecture to human psyche. The experimental short film emphasizes the physical exploration of the “Plattenbau” - an architecture of prefabricated concrete block flats that was typical of East Germany. It questions the relationship between body and space.
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MOVE
Max Holzheu: A Legacy of Guatemalan Brutalist Architecture
A retired architect recounts the tender story of discovering his passion for architecture from a young age and his journey to becoming one of the most important leading figures of brutalist architecture in Guatemala.
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Max Holzheu: A Legacy of Guatemalan Brutalist Architecture
SLUMS: Cities of Tomorrow
From the heart of the planet's slums and squats, individuals have taken over these marginalized worlds and erected cities in their own image.
One in six people live in a slum, a squat, or any other precarious dwelling. Director Jean-Nicolas Orhon gives us an intimate look at the inhabitants who, through resilience and ingenuity, have built these homes. From India and New Jersey via France, Quebec and Morocco, get a new perspective on these communities.
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SLUMS: Cities of TomorrowSoviet Bus Stops
Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig travels former Soviet Republics from Ukraine to Uzbekistan, Armenia to Far Eastern Siberia, and all points in between, in a decades-long bus stop treasure hunt across more than 50,000 kilometres. Uncovering the stories of the designers who built fascinating architectural marvels during the Soviet regime, Soviet Bus Stops is an ode to the power of individual creativity that would not be suppressed.
Architecture, like anything else during the Soviet period, was under strict centralized supervision. While art and grandmonuments were expected to advance the state narrative of communism as paradise on earth, sometime sthe benign bus stops were overlooked. As a result, hundreds of architecturally distinctive bus stops arenow scattered across the former Soviet Republic. Built by individuals who decided to follow their own artistic urges, they found a way of expressing local and artisticideas, in this small form. Their bus stops were built as quiet acts of creativity against overwhelming state control.
In 2002, Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig came across his first of these distinctive pieces of architecture, and has since pioneered a bus stop hunting trend from Kiev to Vladivostok. The bus stops he has chronicled represent an astonishing variety of original styles and types, from the strictest Brutalism to exuberant whimsy. Herwig’s resulting photography books have become international bestsellers and are critically praised as gems on architecture and cold war history.
Shot over a period of 7years, the documentary Soviet Bus Stops follows Herwig on several bus stop hunts, listening in as he seeks answers as to how these unique creations came to exist. Puzzled by their origins, and without historical records, Herwig tracks down several of the creators and finds inspiration and a strengthened belief that the special bus stops need to be remembered.
Today, cursed by thememory of the era in which they were created, many bus stops have been torn down or disregarded as strange and embarrassing. Few people see them as the phenomenon Herwig does. He considers them to be one of the largest and most diverse architectural collections in existence. Their rejection of established forms is key to this appreciation. Herwig’s twenty year-long efforts in photographing hundreds of bus stops is an attempt to memorialize them before they are all demolished.
Soviet Bus Stops accompanies Herwig on his unforgettable road trip, as he meets some of the humble and charming bus stop creators from Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Belarus, and Lithuania. The remaining bus stops represent the stories of people who created small acts of poetry against all odds
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Soviet Bus Stops
Spatial Bodies (Courtesy of Filmform)
Spatial Bodies depicts the urban landscape and its architectural bodies as an autonomous living and self-replicating organism. Domesticated and cultivated only by its own nature, this cityscape in flux is made up by vast concrete vegetation, oscillating between order and chaos. Spatial Bodies is influenced by Gunkan (battleship), the Japanese architectural movement Metabolism and the video game Katamari Damacy.
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Spatial Bodies (Courtesy of Filmform)
THE OPENING
In architecture, even the best of projects cannot be considered truly finished and complete without the people who will spontaneously inhabit it. "The opening" develops from this important initial assumption and shows, through a fantastic and metaphorical story, the active role of the inhabitants of all designed spaces.
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THE OPENING
TXL - Berlin Tegel Airport
TXL: the airport code for Berlin Tegel. TXL, three letters, that paved the way for two young graduates to a worldwide recognized career in architecture.
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TXL - Berlin Tegel Airport
Tapping Black Boots
Echoes of old Slovak folk songs are reimagined in the pulsating beats of Christian's techno music
Enchanted by the vibrant Slovak folk culture, Japanese animation artist Kaoru Furuko and Swedish musician Christian Wellbo embarked on an eight-year artistic journey into Slovak folklore, folktale, and music. Their shared adventure birthed the idea of this audiovisual sketchbook. To weave the visual tapestry, a collage was created from Kaoru's visual sketches, animations, journals and video documentation. Intertwined with the visuals, echoes of old Slovak folk songs are reimagined in the pulsating beats of Christian's techno music.
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Tapping Black Boots
WBA presents
Mini series about Belgian contemporary architecture commissioned by Wallonie-Bruxelles Architecture made of 9 uncommon very short episodes (2 min max.) focusing on user experience in contemporary buildings designed by Belgian architecture studios. Here are the five first episodes. If you like them just ask for more !
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WBA presents
Wrinkles
We are all aging, so are buildings. This film is rooted in an anonymous residential building in the center of Mexico City. Dancing between observation and imagination, it unearths architecture as a living object.
We are all aging, so are buildings. This film is rooted in an anonymous residential building in the center of Mexico City, one with 70 years of history being born, lived, earthquake-destructed, abandoned, repaired, rejuvenated, cared for, and so on. Dancing between observation and imagination, it unearths architecture as a living object, and redefines the beginning and the end of architectural design. Using the digital camera to access a series of spatial tools, this films embraces photogrammetry, data processing software, plotting machine, and most importantly, our eyes, to build an alternative literacy that gently questions established forms of design authorship. We need to be better observers before we can become better designers. Living in a world that is saturated with modernism buildings boomed in the last century, which have, to different extents, started to show signs of crumbling, it is crucial for us to reflect the existing built environment and question - how will we live together? Solutionism is not the offering, but rather, an outlook for re-discovering architecture as life-long projects.
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Wrinkles
2023 Grand Hotel
12:00-13:20 Thema: The strength of the collective
12-13:20 Slums: Cities of tomorrow
Lunch pause
15:00 -16:00 Debate: Collective living, in presence of Marta Dauliute, director of Good Life, and other guests (list to come)
Moderator: David Sim, Softer
Coffee pause
16:15-17:00 Official competition part 1
How shall we comfort ourselves
17:15-18:15 Films by Architecture Students in Lund
Theme: Communication spaces & Sky is the limit
18:30-19:30 Official competition part 2
19:30 Prize Ceremony
2023 Studio Bantorget
13:20 Opening for exhibition "SKY IS THE LIMIT" , brunch , short movies
Max Holzheu: A legacy of Guatemalan Brutalist Architecture
20:00 Outdoor projections on the facade with original creations and selection "remix"
Art projections on the facade, by Otto Vretare
2023 Party
Welcome to the Festival's Party
Welcome to Festival's party where we transform the Studio Bantorget into a vibrant cave!
Featuring Dj Balthaz
Video art by Otto Vretare
Drinks, snacks & good music
2023 Grand Opening
Register here
17:00 Opening of the festival with mingle, Johan Sundbergs Arkitektkontor
18:00 Screening of Soviet Bus Stops + 2 short films: Spatial Bodies and Caring from Courtesy of Filmform Kino
2023 Grand Hotel
12:00-13:20 Thema: The strength of the collective
12-13:20 Slums: Cities of tomorrow
Lunch pause
15:00 -16:00 Debate: Collective living, in presence of Marta Dauliute, director of Good Life, and other guests (list to come)
Moderator: David Sim, Softer
Coffee pause
16:15-17:00 Official competition part 1
How shall we comfort ourselves
17:15-18:15 Films by Architecture Students in Lund
Theme: Communication spaces & Sky is the limit
18:30-19:30 Official competition part 2
19:30 Prize Ceremony
2023 Studio Bantorget
13:20 Opening for exhibition "SKY IS THE LIMIT" , brunch , short movies
Max Holzheu: A legacy of Guatemalan Brutalist Architecture
20:00 Outdoor projections on the facade with original creations and selection "remix"
Art projections on the facade, by Otto Vretare
2023 Party
Welcome to the Festival's Party
Welcome to Festival's party where we transform the Studio Bantorget into a vibrant cave!
Featuring Dj Balthaz
Video art by Otto Vretare
Drinks, snacks & good music
2023 Grand Opening
Register here
17:00 Opening of the festival with mingle, Johan Sundbergs Arkitektkontor
18:00 Screening of Soviet Bus Stops + 2 short films: Spatial Bodies and Caring from Courtesy of Filmform Kino
Skissernas Night 2023
Skissernas håller öppet hus om Arkitektur och Skulptur, ArchFilm med Gökägget ansvarar för visuals
Nä rkände du dig frisk senast
Fest och pre-op event - med David Lynchs kortfilmer!
Festen är ett pre-op event till den verkliga föreställningen "När kände du dig frisk senast?" som äger rum 7-19 mars
ArchFilm visar kortfilmer av David Lynch.
Din vårdcentral ditt hjärta gläntar på dörrarna och bjuder på fest och överraskningar från våra behandlingsrum. Vill du göra ett ultraljud, träffa en charlatan eller glömde du fira alla hjärtans dag ?
Vi bjuder på kärleksdrycker, musik, dans och kortfilmer, fri entré..vad mer kan man begära?
Vi kan med stolthet presentera att Roberto Rosson med sitt Crew står för den helande musiken.
En ära för oss ❤️
I samarbete med Gökägget och ArchFilmLund
2022 Archfilm@Home
Look at films at home during one week
Films from our Official Selection:
A poetic, choreographic documentary reflecting about architecture and space in Can Lis-
a house designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon ( Ramsing, Kraft, Fischlein, 52 min)
A film about the importance to use daylight in buildings (Wakeham, Dubois, 60 min)
A discussion of the the importance of wood in Portuguese architecture (Nunes, 16 min)
Bloco Architects in Construction
The documentary presents the daily life of an architectural firm BLOCO Arquitetos in Brazil
Reflections and criticisms about the relationship between architecture and the city (Bergerot) 30 min
Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens
A documentary about the most distinctive Athenian building type, the polykatoikía (Langis, Gaitanidis 1h 27 min)
About the portuguese architect Alvaro Siza through his relationship with Brazil, (Ferraz, 1h 14)
A photographic adventure across the island of Singapore (Siyuan, 30 min)
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2022 Party
Welcome to the Festival's Party
Welcome to Festival's party where we transform the office of JakobssonPusterla on Bantorget into a vibrant cave!
Featuring Dj Tomas Melinder (Malmö Inre)
Lighting by Lumior
Drinks, snacks & good music
2022 Bantorget
All day: Outside screenings of selected films
Exhibition "The Incredible Office"
13-15 Live ArchFilmTV from the office Jakobsson&Pusterla
15-17 Short city films from our official Selection and promotion of
archfilm@home
Street level the Concrete Landscape
and Promotion of A Pile of Ghost with the short film from last year
21:00 Projection of "The cabinet of the Doctor Caligari" on the facade of Bantorget 4
and the short films:
2022 Exhibition
Exhibition, Liveshow
All day: Exhibition "The Incredible Office", by the architecture students of Lund
13-15 Watch ArchFilmTV in the office : live interviews of the filmmakers & architectcts
Also available online afterwards on www.archfilmlund.se
Find the key to the hotelroom...
2022 Grand Hotel
Screenings & paneldebatt
11:00-21:30 Screening of selected movies, guests and debates, Piratensalen Grand Hotel.
11-13 Cinematographic pearls:
A beautiful documentary of what Venice is elsewhere (Romanelli,60 min)
A love letter to the cinema of M. Antonioni (magno, 8 min)
Archfilm version of "the cabinet of the Dr Caligari"
A expressionist silent horror movie from 1920 (40 min, fast version)
13 -14:45 Cinema during ArchFilmTV:
A poetic black and white film about the everyday hustle and bustle in contemporary Bratislava (Sliepková, 80 min).
Magnificent and silent sources of sounds, belonging to the italian city Rovigo (Ferrari, 4 min)
A rumour in a french village about a tower (Bacle, 22 min)
15:00- 18:30 "Housing crisis, which city for which life?" Films followed by debate
En film om den svenska bostadspolitiken, båda delar finns på SVT (Wahlgren, 59 min)
A documentary giving a revealing look beyond the photogenic image of Copenhagen (HC Post, 59 min)
17:00 Bar opens
17:00-18:30 "Housing crisis, which city for which life?"
Debate with the filmmakers
Anders Wahlgren, who has documented the history of building and politics in Sweden ("När Domus kom till stan" + 50 other films),
Hans Christian Post, actual with the movie "Best in the world", a critical look on Copenhagen,
moderated by
David Sim, architect and urbanist, author of "Soft City, building density for everyday life"
Presentation of our online selection
18:30 Films by architecture students in Lund
Meet the students behind the exhibition The incredible office
and their short films in competition.
Hammershøi's painting, built up as models and adapted into short films.
19:30 Short movies from our Selection
The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms
A magic mixing paintings with live-action documentary footage
An experimental documentary featuring Japanese urban architecture. (Ouellet, 17 min).
20:00 Prize Ceremony
20:20 Short movies with presentation by the brazil filmmaker Jean Bergerot:
In the memory of a residence (4min)
Bloco Architects in Construction
The daily life of an architectural firm BLOCO Arquitetos (30 min)
2022 Opening Ceremony
17:30 Join and mingle at the opening ceremony
18:00 Screening of the film "Gagarine", by Fanny Liatard & Jerémy Trouilh.
A fiction featuring an iconic, and now demolished, social housing building.
19:30 Screening of the dance-documentary film
What shall we do with these Buildings
A film made just before the war in Kharkiv, Ukraine (J. Ben-Shaul , 28 min)