PRICKLY MOUNTAIN AND MY DESIGN/BUILD LIFE

In the late 1960s, a group of architects arrived in Vermont with a simple plan: not just to design houses, but to build them themselves. For them, architecture became a creative experiment in which making mistakes was an essential part of the process.

The director grew up among these unfinished buildings and, years later, sets out with her camera to trace the movement’s history, following its evolution through the houses that defined each decade: from the sculptural forms of the 1960s to the experiments with energy and alternative materials in the 1970s, and finally to the houses built in the 1980s, when the movement also established its own school, Yestermorrow.

Prickly Mountain and My Design/Build Life is a film about the joy of making things, making mistakes, and starting over.

The film is screened alongside A Gentle Pressure.