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The film invites viewers to reflect on the transformative journey from a raw, anonymous block of marble to a meticulously crafted building.
10 Minutes’ Mayors. A part of Actopolis/Bucharest-South
Inhabitants of the Southern (the less privileged and known) part of Bucharest were invited to imagine that the area has become an independent city and that they were elected its mayors. They received a (mobile) office and some official insignia. The game turned into serious business when the mayors had…
16 DISTRICT, 16 FLOORS, 16 PEOPLE
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…
27 STOREYS – ALTERLAA FOREVER
Alterlaa, Austria’s largest social housing complex, once promised its residents a happy life: “Everyone should live like the rich.” What remains of this promise made in the 1970s is explored in Bianca Gleissinger’s debut documentary. The director, who grew up in the complex, reconnects with her eccentric neighbours at the…
60 Elephants. Episodes of a Theory
In 60 Elephants, Michael Klein and Sasha Pirker portray the thoughts and work of Yona Friedman, a ninety-five-year-old French architect and humanist who was awarded the Friedrich Kiesler prize in 2018. Friedman developed visions of an improvisation-capable, mobile architecture for a migrating global society as early as the 1950s…
A Gentle Pressure
At the end of the 1960s, the young Belgian architect A.J. Lode Janssens built an experimental, inflatable home for his family. Using materials and technologies that had only just been developed, Lode Janssens explored timeless ideas about the essence of a house. The film is a portrait of…
A GENTLE PRESSURE
In the late 1960s, young Belgian architect A.J. Lode Janssens built an experimental inflatable home for his family. Using newly developed materials and technologies, Lode Janssens explored timeless ideas about the essence of a home. The film offers a portrait of an architect who remained open to experimentation and optimistic…
A walnut tree
What does a refugee camp look like? An elderly man tells us the story of his homelands, while his longing for home follows him far and near. He wants to go back, but that place is no longer there. His family, just like himself, have been forced to leave…
All The Memory Of The World
An essay on the organisation of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which is seen as a metaphor for the momory of the world. An homage to all its employees who file, register and watch over its valuable content and without whom it would remain inaccessible. Part of Le cœur battant…
Always on the run, but not today
An unexpected story in an unexpected environment. The movie unraveles the story of a man who motivated a whole village to practice eco-friendly methods. An example of good local practice that changes a boy’s life and his family’s. Small actions, great reactions. The film will be followed by a Q&A…
Amare Gio Ponti
This film is meant as a portrayal of the man and architect Gio Ponti. Throughout his career (which surpasses 50 years), Ponti has experimented with arts, crafts, objects, architecture and materials; his creation ranged from small to big – from the creation of a doorknob, to the urban planning of…
ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
Third in a trilogy that includes Manufactured Landscapes (2006) and Watermark (2013), the film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth…