16 District, 16 Floors, 16 People
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Director:
Tatevik Vardanyan
Country of production:
Armenia
“16 District, 16 Floors, 16 People”, is a short film featuring a district in Yerevan, Armenia, where the legacy of the Soviet Union still occupies the minds and daily lives of the residents living in these huge unfinished monolithic structures built to write the letters CCCP. The film highlights the communities everyday issues and concerns, linking the past and present with all its changes and difficulties of the people once living in a superpower that’s become a decaying empire.
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27 februar - February 27th
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Director:
Marie-Thérèse Jakoubek
Country of production:
Algeria
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 film tells about their life
in a temporary existence that evolved into a home against their will and to this day
symbolizes their resistance and resilience.
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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.
3xShapes of Home
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Country of production:
Norway
3xShapes of Home is a experimental video in the intersection between an essay film, a structural experiment and a visual poem. In this video, the filmmaker revisits her place of origin, the small village of Strengelvåg in the Arctic North of Norway. Over a period of two years, she explores through her camera, how the architectures and topographies of that place, that is: the mountains, oceans and built environments, has shaped the filmmaker´s attachment to her childhood place, as well as her thinking.
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A Machine to Live in
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Director:
Yoni Goldstein, Meredith Zielke
Country of production:
U.S
A Machine to Live In is a hybrid documentary linking the cosmic power structures of the state to the mystical architecture of cults and utopian cities in the distant hinterlands of Brazil. This “sci-fi” documentary provides a complex portrait of life, poetry, and myth set against the backdrop of the space-age city of Brasília and a flourishing landscape of UFO cults and transcendental spaces.
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A Trip to the Moon
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Director:
George Méliès, music: AIR
Country of production:
France
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. This is a restored hand-colored print.
with a new soundtrack by the French band Air.
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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.
A Wes Anderson-ish Singapore
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Country of production:
Singapore
This documentary short film takes viewers on a photographic adventure across the island of Singapore, as it documents the changes in the built environment against the backdrop of the pandemic situation and helps viewers rediscover everything accidentally or intentionally "Wes Anderson" about Singapore.
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A particular city
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Director:
Baltasar Albrecht
Country of production:
Argentina
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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.
ASCONA
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Country of production:
Germany
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.
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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.
How can we live together in cities as a community? The film "All by Marseille" looks at the influence of urban architecture on social encounters in Marseille. Twelve inhabitants are portrayed living and working in three locations around the city, capturing different periods in time and approaches tackling this topic. During filming a number of residential buildings in the city centre collapsed, reflecting how communal living is being endangered by aggressive gentrification.
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Americaville
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Director:
Adam James Smith
Country of production:
United States
Challenges of the American Dream in China's replica of Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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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.
Amnesha
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Country of production:
United Kingdom
A fictional city under siege, Amnesha considers the relationship between the coronavirus pandemic and the severe environmental pressures caused by the anthropocene, and playfully hints at an alternative, emerging future. Using webcam footage from around the world captured during the first lockdown to illustrate a short story inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Amnesha presents a global snapshot of our changed relationship with the city.
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Annapolis, Giant City
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Director:
Maarten Bernaerts
Country of production:
Belgium
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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.
Apartmentation
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Country of production:
Korea, Republic of
APT(Apartments) are the most common and popular type of housing in Korea. Here, some-bodies are revolving around the convenient yet desolate, as some might say, apartment.
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Architecture on the Edge: Nishizawa House
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Director:
Mario Novas, Kate Kliwadenko
Country of production:
Chile
Nishizawa House by Ryue Nishizawa Instead of disappearing and becoming compliant with the surrounding territory, the works of Chilean architecture are sharply man-made, rough, cosmic and oceanic. These breathtaking designs are built on salt blankets in the desert, on the edge of oceans, cradled amongst mountains, and grasping to an earthquake prone land. Through truly stunning photography, Architecture on the Edge features some of the country's most engaging and celebrated buildings, and explores how Chilean architecture revels in pushing design to the very edge. The series includes Pritzker prize-winning architecture and architects from Chile.
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Azimut
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Director:
Emiliana Santoro
Country of production:
Italy
Clementina, Mario the fisherman, Jacopo. Time and Nature. Solitudes and buildings. This is Azimuth: a life that flows behind the wall.
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BLOCO ARCHITECTS IN CONSTRUCTION
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Director:
Jean Paulo Bergerot
Country of production:
Brazil
The documentary presents the daily life of an architectural firm BLOCO Arquitetos and shows as a backdrop reflections and criticisms about the relationship between architecture and the city and its works in the wild environment of the Cerrado, in the center of the country. According to them, the principles of modern architecture produced in the beginning of Brasília can still serve as inspiration for the production of an essentially Brazilian contemporary architecture connected to the challenges of the present day, especially in relation to the preservation of the region's native biome. The film was shot in two locations: Brasília and Chapada dos Veadeiros. Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, is a city planned and built in the 60's and is still today one of the main international references of modern architecture.
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Best in the World
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Director:
Hans Christian Post
Country of production:
Denmark
Copenhagen is an exemplary city. Exemplary in its successes. But also in the downsides that are starting to show.
From a city which was in the early 1990s on the brink of bankruptcy, it has undergone a tremendous transformation and is today coined as one of the best and most liveable cities in the world. But the gains are increasingly outnumbered by noticeable losses. Today, social and economic divides between the haves and the have nots haunt both city and countryside, and more and more people are starting to ask whether the run-down city of the past was in some ways preferable.
The film explores these general dilemmas. It looks at the gains and losses that Copenhagen has experienced over the last 30 years and asks what we need for the city to be in the 21st century.
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Bo(i)staden: den sociala idén
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Director:
Anders Wahlgren
Country of production:
Sweden
Den sociala idén. En god bostad tillhör människans grundläggande behov och problemen med för få och för dyra bostäder är inte nya. Anders Wahlgren har gjort filmer om arkitektur och boende i snart 50 år. Nu ser han tillbaka på bostadsfrågan genom tiderna med exempel från sina tidigare filmer. Del 1 av 2.
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Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens
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Director:
Tassos Langis, Yannis Gaitanidis
Country of production:
Greece
A documentary about the most distinctive Athenian building type, the polykatoikía, and the reconstruction of the city through the life of the anonymous lay builders and their housewives, who were the most unlikely “co-authors.”
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Building Bastille
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Country of production:
Canada
A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge, an impossible deadline, two warring political titans and a blind competition that chose - the wrong guy? A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge and impossible deadline, two warring political titans and an architect who has never built anything. What could go wrong?
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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.
Butohouse
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Director:
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
Country of production:
France
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. Trained in butoh dance, an avant-garde choreographic movement born in Japan in the 1960s, Oka makes architecture a performance. ButoHouse is a film about concrete, illumination, perseverance and hope.
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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.
Cinema Cristal
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Director:
Marlies Pöschl, Farnaz Jurabchian
Country of production:
Austria
Laleh Zar, a street in Southern Tehran, formerly the heart of cinema culture, is today filled with all kinds of light sources that are offered for sale. As a result of the Iranian revolution, Laleh Zars cinemas remain silent and closed. Yet they light up – in our minds... Laleh Zar — a street located in the city centre of Tehran, formerly home to several cinemas — is today characterised by a multitude of luminous elements, which are offered for sale alongside the street. The flow of images through light — cinema — seems to have broken apart into a variety of different light sources after the changes that the Iranian revolution has brought about. “Cinema Cristal” recombines these different fragments of light into a new composition, a dance of images in the manner of experimental film. On the soundtrack film lovers, witnesses, and theoreticians tell their memories, stories, and hommages related to Tehran’s cinemas. A film about the role of cinema as an aesthetic, social, and memorial space.
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Concrete Landscape
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Country of production:
Brazil
Concrete Landscape presents the portuguese architect Alvaro Siza through his relationship with brazil, including his family roots in Belém and investigating his only work in the country, the building of ibere camargo institution, located in Porto Alegre.
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Contrapunctus V
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Country of production:
Germany
An experimental documentary featuring Japanese urban architecture. A time capsule of sorts, centered on (biological or artificial) brain states, it makes different themes and voices converge and connect in a rhizomatic, multitasking structure reminiscent of musical counterpoint (and attention deficit behaviour symptoms).
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This film explores the relationship between architecture and nature through minimalistic and meditative cinematography, using natural sounds of the environment as its soundtrack. Shot exclusively in natural light over the course of one day, the film highlights architect Craig Steely's work in Captain Cook, Hawaii.
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Daylight Trilogy, Part 1: Humans
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Director:
Nicholas Wakeham & Marie-Claude Dubois
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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.
De Lentloper
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Director:
Martijn Schinkel
Country of production:
Netherlands
Filmmaker Martijn Schinkel portrays "De Lentloper" a small modern bridge in Nijmegen (NL). This poetic, experimental short shows how a new bridge, his habitants, surroundings, and users become one for probably centuries to come.
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Det krokiga och det raka
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Country of production:
Sverige
En film om arkitekten Carl Nyrèn
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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.
Electric House
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Country of production:
U:S
A silent film by Buster Keaton from 1922.
After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.
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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.
The film will be screened with live music by Malmö Inre.
Drums, turntables and electronics by Markus Bergqvist och Tomas Melinder
Enter Through The Balcony
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Country of production:
Ukraine
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.
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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.
Exterior Day: Esterno giorno
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Country of production:
Italy
Inspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, “Esterno giorno” is an experimental love letter to Italian cinema. Following in the footsteps of the characters played by Monica Vitti, the film retraces the geography of Antonioni’s vision, pushing the boundaries between subject and landscape, fiction and reality.
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FLICKER STREET SKETCHES
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Director:
Christopher Nelson
Ett videoverk (Super-8 film) av Christopher Nelson, längd 37 min. Framförs med livemusik av Christopher Nelson (Samplingar och slagverk) Dick Heijkensköld (Kontrabas)
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Flying Monks Temple
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Country of production:
Latvia
A dreamer by nature, Quanqi Zhu decides to set up a unique installation at the hillside of Sacred Songshan mountain in China. Despite the language barrier, his best companion is Latvian architect Austris Mailitis. As the building of the object begins, the creators themselves have to levitate between cultural differences, conventions and personal ambitions.
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Gagarine
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Director:
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
Country of production:
Frankrike
I höghuset i miljonprogramsområdet Cité Gagarine utanför Paris, drömmer 16-årige Yuri om att bli astronaut. Övergiven av sina föräldrar har bostadsområdet och människorna som befolkar det blivit hans familj. När det uppdagas att hela området ska rivas väcker det starkt motstånd. En efter en tvingas de ut ur sina lägenheter men Yuri kommer inte ut. Besatt av sin kärlek till rymden har han ett alldeles särskilt sätt att göra motstånd och när invånarna samlas för att protestera slås de av häpnad. Filmen spelades in när husen revs och är gjord i nära samarbete med de som tvingades se på när deras hem jämnades med marken.
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Hage
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Country of production:
Sweden
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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
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
Infinite Space, a documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
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Instruments in the Architecture: Building The Pianodrome
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Director:
Austen McCowan, Will Hewitt
Country of production:
United Kingdom
Pianos are being thrown away at a tremendous rate – hauled away, set on fire and their valuable heavy metal sold for scrap. Tim, Leon and their team of inspired artists, musicians and volunteers have reclaimed these unloved instruments to build the world’s first 100-seater amphitheatre made entirely from up-cycled pianos. Balancing the artistic integrity of Tim’s vision with Leon’s practicality and realism tests the strength of their relationship as they race to complete the Pianodrome for its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Jugaad
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Country of production:
Hong Kong
How are the challenges posed by the city structure in Mumbai met by its dwellers’ ability to innovate and adapt? ‘Jugaad’ is a Hindi word roughly translated as an innovative fix or an efficient solution that bends the rules. It represents a flexible approach towards cohabitation that is inseparable from the daily lives of Mumbaikars. With the absent of commentary and constant dialogue, this film invites the audience to experience the multi-layered cohabitation -- each group actively creates a space for themselves and generates their personal daily ritual when navigating through Mumbai.
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Just a car park
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Country of production:
United Kingdom
Welbeck Street car park is a brutalist icon. A true one of a kind structure famous for its diamond-patterned facade. Despite this, the local council sold off the building in 2017 to make way for a luxury hotel. Demolition is now imminent.
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Kalliopê and the syntropic path of the Muse
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Director:
Luis Rosa Lopes
Country of production:
Portugal
Kalliopē, the chief of all Muses, the daughter of Memory, is lost. Guided by the maternal figure of Mnēmosýnē, Kalliopē enters on a syntropic journey through the waters of the Hippocrene.
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Kopacabana
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Director:
Marcos Bonisson, Khalil Charif
Country of production:
Brazil
Film set in the neighborhood of Copacabana, elaborated through a collage of current and archive images (Super 8 and digital). An experimental work narrated by the significant speech of the poet Fausto Fawcett, and sonorized by the musician Arnaldo Brandão.
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Kwaidan
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Director:
Masaki Kobayashi
Country of production:
Japan
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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.
Land & Sky: The Inspiration of Tippet Rise
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Country of production:
U.S
Set on a 12,000-acre working sheep and cattle ranch in Fishtail, Montana, Tippet Rise Art Center hosts classical chamber music and recitals and exhibits large-scale, outdoor sculptures. Tippet Rise celebrates the concept that art, music, architecture, and nature are inextricably linked in the human experience, each making the others more powerful.
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Land der Gegenden / Land of districts
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Director:
Andreas Gruetzner
Country of production:
Germany
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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.
Landing
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Country of production:
Germany
The film follows a construction photographer on the last day of his job on a newly-finished building in Seoul.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.
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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
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Country of production:
United Kingdom
LEFT BEHIND is an emotional portrait of Liverpool's famous Tobacco Warehouse (1901); a grade II listed building that is considered being the largest brick building in the world. Today, the industrial warehouse lies empty in a vast and abandoned dock landscape. The expressive space portrayed in the film is inhabited by an enigmatic figure that, in terms of its scale and appearance, seems to live in a symbiosis with the building and its site.
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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.
Lelé's House
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Director:
Jean Paulo Bergerot
Country of production:
Brazil
The non-visible life that is impregnated in the memory of a residence. The short film presents in a poetic way the house that the architect Joao Filgueiras Lima, Lelé, designed in Brasília, in the early 70s.
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Light without Sun
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Director:
Marie Ramsing, Clara Kraft, Christopher Fischlein
Country of production:
Denmark
A documentary about Can Lis, a house designed by the Danish architect Jørn Utzon on the island of Mallorca and considered among the most significant projects of the twentieth century. Set within one day, the film reflects the sensory nature of architecture, using interviews, narrative, and choreography to challenge how buildings are documented.
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Lines
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Director:
Barbora Sliepková
Country of production:
Slovakia
Lines is a visual essay, a tangle of stories and observations, set in the exemplary post-socialist city of Bratislava; a place experiencing dynamic transformation.
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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.
Lower Grand
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Country of production:
United States
The secret life of a street known from movies, television shows and commercials.
Lower Grand chronicles the uneven recovery after the Great Recession through the aspect of this familiar setting. Depending which side you're on, its portals are a window on the upper crust of American society or its lower depths.
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MOUNT DAVIS
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Country of production:
Hong Kong
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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 ...
Made in Iliima
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Country of production:
RDC/USA
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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.
Melting Souls
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Director:
Francois-Xavier Destors
Country of production:
France
Winner of ArchFilmLund Prize 2018
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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.
Metropolis + The Metrophonic Orchestra
Videoinstallation with Metropolis in Boseby Kyrka with live music by The Metrophonic Orchestra . Metropolis (1927) is a West German silent science drama movie by Fritz Lang. It was made in Germany. The movie is set in 2026 in a city-state called Metropolis. People have been divided into two groups. One group is the thinkers. They live on the Earth in luxury. The other group is the workers. They work underground. They make the life of the thinkers possible. The movie features special effects and set design. Lang took his inspiration for the sets from Manhattan. It was the most expensive silent movie of the time
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https://www.facebook.com/ArchFilmLund/videos/313531889501282/
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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Miljonprogrammet ( in swedish)
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Director:
Dan Kristensson, Einar Hansson
Country of production:
Sweden
Filmskaparna syftar ge en helhetsbild av miljonprogrammet med tyngdpunkt på ett konstruktivt framtidsperspektiv, som visar områdenas viktiga roll i en hållbar samhällsutveckling. De vill ta avstamp i nuläget och dess utmaningar och en fördjupad bakgrund till miljonprogrammets bebyggelse, som kulturskatt och framgångshistoria – liksom till dess politiska tillkomst, kriser och förnyelseerfarenheter. Filmen lyfter fram erfarenheter av den viktiga forskning och utveckling som har pågått i ett 30-tal år och som sammantaget visar på stora möjligheter. Programmet utmynnar i ett antal aktuella utvecklingsprojekt.
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Moriyama-San
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Director:
Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine
Country of production:
France
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). Moriyama-San, the first film about noise music, acrobatic reading,silent movies, fireworks and Japanese architecture!
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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!
Moshe Safdie:Habitat in Nature
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Country of production:
China
What is the ideal form of a contemporary house? 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
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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.
Mr Funkis
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Director:
Anders Wahlgren
Country of production:
Sweden
Filmaren Anders Wahlgren träffade den åttioårige arkitekten Sven Markelius första gången 1969 när hans sista byggnad Sverigehuset var färdigt, och de blev goda vänner. De många timslånga samtalen spelades in på band, som legat orörda i femtio år. Det är de enda intervjuer som gjorts med Markelius. Han tillhörde den mest radikala kretsen inom svensk arkitektur och ansåg att en av de viktigaste uppgifterna för en arkitekt var att rita billiga bostäder, lika aktuellt idag.
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Never too Small
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Country of production:
Australia
Never Too Small is a YouTube channel dedicated to small footprint design and living; featuring award-winning designers and their tiny / micro apartments, studios and self-contained projects. Through smart design and creative use of space, we can transform the way we live and interact with our growing cities; tackling urban overcrowding issues globally whilst improving the quality of life. Never Too Small provides a window into this world for inspiration and leadership in Small Footprint Living.
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New York Minute
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Country of production:
US
This work continues Lynn Bianchi’s relationship with New York City and its inhabitants - her home and inspiration since 1968. New York Minute was developed and created during lockdown - the year of loneliness and isolation - yet Lynn never felt lonely because the city was right outside her window - still alive and forever hopeful. A love letter to New York, this work is an abstraction of one day in the city - from dawn till dusk - moments that last a minute, or maybe a lifetime.
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Next Sunday
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Director:
Marta Bogdanska
Country of production:
Poland
The film focuses on a group of teenage boys entering the space, who ventured inside every Sunday. They used to enter the space illegally through the opening in the surrounding fence or by jumping over the fence. The film explores an unrealized potential of the Rachid Karame International Fair for local residents of Tripoli, Lebanon. Locally called the Maarad (exhibition) it was designed by famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1960s.
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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.
Nomad Meets the City
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Director:
Anji Sauvé Clubb
Country of production:
Mongolia
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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.
ON THE CUSP: Ivan Levynskyi and Building the City of Lions
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Director:
Peter Straton Bejger
Country of production:
U.S
ON THE CUSP is a "city symphony" on the enchanting western Ukrainian metropolis of Lviv, a legendary crossroads of Europe affectionately called the "City of Lions" in honor of its medieval founder. Known variously in history as Leopolis, Lemberg, Lwów, or Lvov, the city became a glittering center of Secession art and architecture before 1914 when it was part of the Habsburg crown land of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The architect/builder Ivan Levynskyi was a fundamental actor during that era in creating a Lviv that was aesthetically captivating and culturally meaningful. Levynskyi’s life and work helped to shape an urban model of elegant density, propinquity, and architectural heterogeneity, a palimpsest metropolis haunting the imaginations of all those who encounter its complex heritage.
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Of Vineyards And Shoeboxes
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Country of production:
Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Russian Federation
In recent years, numerous important concert halls have opened their doors to the public, drawing attention to an almost unknown guild: the acousticians. Without their precise calculations, architects would be lost, and prestigious buildings such as the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg or the new Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow would be threatened with insignificance. The documentary "Of Vineyards And Shoeboxes" accompanies the work of acousticians who are in demand around the world and who transcend the boundaries of physics and art. It is a fascinating and entertaining journey into the mysterious world of sound.
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On est Malade
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Director:
F. R EDMONDES , T. KORKA NDIAYE
A film where two women explore the public space in the street of Dakar by creating things and making noice.
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One Street Away
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Country of production:
United States
One Street Away is an intimate and honest portrayal of the overlooked communities of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The spaces where its shanty towns can be found were, until very recently, left blank on maps, yet their associations with crime and poverty are well-known and often perpetuated by local media. Tourists visiting Buenos Aires are often warned not to wander into the so-called ‘villas miserias.’ But inside is a very different story. One Street Away follows three marginalised communities in Argentina’s capital as they strive to find their voices and build better lives for their families. Residing in self-made settlements, theirs is a story of humanity, community, and resilience in the face of economic and social inequality.
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One week
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Country of production:
U.S
A silent movie by Buster Keaton from 1920. A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
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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
Pakistan Chowk
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Country of production:
Pakistan
A neglected public square in the historic Arambagh neighbourhood of Karachi, Pakistan gets a much needed makeover.
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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.
Pan Seco
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Director:
Román Cadafalch, Cadhla Kennedy
Country of production:
Spain
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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.
Parallel Sprawl
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Country of production:
Switzerland
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. The Parallel Sprawl film tries to better portrait these suburban landscapes and offer some answers and questions about such phenomena.
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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.
Peter Daler
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Country of production:
Italy
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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.
Post-Soviet Symphony
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Director:
Alexey Evstigneev
Country of production:
Russian Federation
If architecture is "frozen music", then the façades of houses are its score. We explore the architecture of the post-Soviet space, from wooden architecture to Baroque and classicism, from Art Nouveau to Stalinist and Khrushchev architecture, traces of which are found in the modern panel buildings known as “human anthills”. By doing so, we are trying to understand how this centuries-old symphony could sound and look, and most importantly, we find that irreconcilable conflict of personality and mass, the unique and the typical, that is reflected even “in stone”.
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Progress
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Director:
Edward Salier/Patricia Bury Salier
Country of production:
United States
SoHo New York was rundown when I moved there in the early 1970’s.
But one day, in a grungy old building, I discovered a remnant of
SoHo’s industrial past. Sol Poler and Hymie Ehrlich were spinning
metal on century-old machines. I didn’t realize there was something
hidden underneath the dirt and grime of SoHo buildings from the
1800’s. I soon discovered Soho’s forgotten history.
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Under the regime of Enver Hoxha, Albanian people lived in constant fear and paranoia. Hoxha’s isolationist policies culminated in the “bunkerization project” the construction of over 700.000 bunkers all over the country. A great financial and human cost to the nation. Today Albanians are living with the complicated and painful legacy of the regime, surrounded by bunkers. This film focuses on the collective memory of Albanians and investigates their relation to the bunkers.
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Race at the Pompidou Center
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Country of production:
France
How was the Pompidou Center built? How could we use its long staircase? The answer to these questions in a handmade & home-made fiction. This third episode of The Home-made architecture series, stages unconventional architectures through familiar objects.
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An observational documentary by Maria Aua is about the reconstruction of the former textile factory into the Academy of Arts. The process of transformation is the result of the selfless and hard physical work of the builders.
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Reconsidering Architourism
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Country of production:
United States
RECONSIDERING ARCHITOURISM is a response to the cessation of global travel + tourism in 2020. It contemplates the pursuit of cultural tourism focussed on architecture or “architourism”.
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Reflections & Projections
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Director:
Benjamin Filinson
Country of production:
United States
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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
Robin Hood Gardens: A brief history
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Country of production:
United Kingdom
I didn't know it was possible to form a bond with a housing estate, but here we are. The year is 2021 and I've been filming the decline, destruction and 'regeneration' of Robin Hood Gardens for 6 years now. I owe this place a great deal.
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SFUMATO
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Director:
Amirali mirderikvand
This documentary is about a rural family with two teenage girls, whose eldest child helps them a lot in life, but continues to face difficulties and obstacles.....Their eldest child is a daughter and she do her work by motorcycle, but in Iran, women can't use motorcycle and now she has a big problem..
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Serial Parallels
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Country of production:
Hongkong /Germany
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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/
Shadow Codex
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Country of production:
Finland
Shadow Codex is a study on the abandoned facilities of Turku County Prison (1835–2007), and documents the layers of messages drawn, scratched and burned on the cell walls. The markings are pathways to the shadow world, to the darkness of an individual’s psyche, and expose a maladjusted underbelly which a society simultaneously both generates and hides. The 8mm film becomes the codex of a collapsed civilization and at the same time evidence of a forbidden zone in the centre of the city. The flow of images is punctuated by John Cage’s (1912–1992) composition “Perilous Night”, which has been described as a journey to the nocturnal side of the soul.
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Shapes Of Ruin
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Country of production:
Croatia
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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.
Shivering wall
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Country of production:
Taiwan
It’s a self-examined process for assess your present time. The smog represented a spiritual inside a space. It could be the spiritual from you or others. It makes you look at yourself in a different angle, but you’re still in the group. What would you do and what’s the connection between you and others?
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Simulation Of Mr. Yellow Documentary
The Simulation of Mr. Yellow is a short Documentary about love of an old man in yellow who lives alone in the war-torn city of Aleppo.
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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.
Sisyphus
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Country of production:
Spain
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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"
Skopje- A City Interrupted
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Director:
Josephine Michau, Signe Sophie Bøggild
Country of production:
Denmark
A film about how 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.
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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.
A visual and clear guide to building better density to create happier, more livable cities. With foreword by Jan Gehl.
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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.
Sometimes My Head Gets Ahead of Me
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Director:
Gustavo Imigrante
Country of production:
Portugal
“Sometimes my head gets ahead of me”, is an architectural short about domestic routines.
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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.
Soon at your home
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Director:
Lucas Bacle, Sandrine Iratçabal
Country of production:
France
In a small French village, a rumour about the construction of a tower in the heart of the village emerges. Is this nonsense? No one knows where this information comes from, but the idea makes you think.
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Spacial Ritual
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Country of production:
France
Spacial Ritual is sensitive film trying to show ironically how architects would like to see their own projects experienced by users.
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Spectrum APR
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Director:
Beatrice Surano
The area of Adriano-Padova-Rizzoli in Milan could be considered both as a huge socio-technical system and as a complex polyphonic system. In this work, the neighborhood loses its suburban definition and is described through an audio/video path that develops in a circular manner around its own center, resulting in a personal rhythmic combination of the area.
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Starting Points
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Country of production:
Netherlands
Portrait of the second social housing community in Taiwan
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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
changed their lives.
Under en nästan 650 mil lång tågfärd har Doug Aitken med en färgsprakande kreativitet filmat 62 kortfilmer bestående av unika konstyttringar. Medverkar gör Thurston Moore, Patti Smith, Giorgio Moroder och Cat Power.
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Steel City
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Director:
Evgeny Gavrilov
Country of production:
Russian Federation
Modernism negates concepts of the past. It crushes traditions. It searches for new forms and ways to reflect the present, to restructure the world we know, and to cut off everything that is unnecessary and leads to simplicity and functionality. More than a hundred years ago, Aleksey Gastev envisioned utopia in his book Express. A Siberian Phantasy, which portrayed the great cities of the future. In it, Novosibirsk is presented as a city of steel, Stal-Gorod, a high-tech and perfect urban space. The whole of Siberia could become such a space. However, only a few artefacts of this legacy remain today. Stal-Gorod is a utopia. It is a story about space which has its own purpose. The airy public space, and closed private existence.
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Still Standing
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Country of production:
Singapore
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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.
Street Level/The Concrete Landscape
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Director:
Jack Cochran, Pamela Falkenberg
Country of production:
U.S
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TOPIASKOP
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Director:
Josephin Boettger
Country of production:
Germany
A city builds itself. Demolition follows construction follows demolition. In "Topiaskop“ dimensions and relations are dissolved, the certainty of place and time is dismantled: the concrete city of Hamburg becomes the site of an absurd tale of growth.
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