PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE tells the stories of five buildings, representative of socialist times and witnessing the historical turbulence in Eastern Europe in the second half of the XX century. The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Moscow State University, Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Palace of Serbia in…
Permit for the Sun is a short tracking the sun’s rays to our homes through the experiences of those who have faced bureaucracy and have decided to take advantage of the solar energy in their homes and offices. The film, produced by Think Outside the Box and the SNK Association,…
In Petrila, a former mining city in Transilvania, an ex-miner now artist and activist uses art and absurdism to stop the local authorities from demolishing the historical buildings of the oldest mine in Romania. His purpose is not only to save the historical value and the identity of his hometown,…
Although Le Corbusier visited the Argentine capital once to give a series of lectures on modern architecture, the city would captivate him for the next two decades. Starting in 1929, the architect developed his modernist vision for the plan of the city of Buenos Aires, trying by all possible means…
The documentary follows experts from across Europe as they explain why demolishing buildings wastes homes, jobs, energy, and history. The film shows the darker side of the real estate speculation, then reveals how renovation and transformation are real alternatives. At the same time it proposes a change of direction, where…
One in six Romanians has gone abroad to work. Most of them come from rural areas and the money sent back home has irreversibly transformed their native villages. Unlike in the city, where even competition is experienced and perceived individually and behind closed doors, changes are highly more visible in…
Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster. The film follows…
Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster. The film follows…
In 1959 New York City announced a “slum clearance plan” by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, Louise Lemoine confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel, a building built twenty years ago by Herzog & de Meuron.
Architecture is usually filmed from the outside, as an inanimate object. The few depictions of interiors are usually limited to still or static images of an empty building, reducing it to no more than an icon or sculpture. ‘REM’ uses an unconventional approach by combining the human stories and experience…
This documentary is a testimony of the construction of a very special building, the Botín Center for Arts & Culture, from its foundation to its inauguration in the bay of Santander, in the North of Spain. The architect, a contemporary master, Renzo Piano. The filmmaker, another contemporary master, Carlos Saura.
