What inspires people to take the initiative and organize communal living themselves? What are the ideals behind it, how do they work out the financing, and how does communal life function? On the basis of six self-managed residential structures in Austria from across forty years, the documentary “Such Stuff As…
A team of professionals and 48 volunteers are building a new rescues point in the Fagaras Mountains, at 2160 meters high. Built in extreme conditions, the project is an innovation. The film follows these spectacular building process.
Talking House’ is a 40-minute montage of Villa E-1027, the iconic modernist villa built by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici on the Cote d’Azur in 1929. Filmed today, and using Eileen Gray’s 1929 photographs of the villa and recently restored Le Corbusier film footage, the camera takes us through E-1027…
An influential man, former Prime Minister of Georgia, has a special kind of hobby. He buys and collects ancient trees and plants them on the coastline, in his private garden and some of them reach as high as a 16-story building. Needless to say, the complexity involved by the process…
In Beirut, Syrian construction workers are building a skyscraper while at the same time their own houses at home are being shelled. The Lebanese war is over but the Syrian one still rages on. The workers are locked in the building site. They are not allowed to leave it after…
“Temporary 8th” is dedicated to Eighth District of Budapest, a popular neighborhood where a major restructuring started in 2006 with displacements of inhabitants, demolitions and constructions but suddenly stopped in 2008 with the global economic crisis. The destroyed buildings are now empty spaces with no defined destination, a mosaic…
In 2014, Chicago lost an emblematic building: The Prentice Women’s Hospital. The film tells the story of an infrastructure that not only changed the appearance of an entire area, but also reinvented the organizational structure of the modern hospital. Caught in the technological evolution spiral, this building made way for…
The film is an immersive journey to Ukraine and follows 5 architects on their determined journeys to continue creating & building during wartime. As Russia continues to turn former Ukrainian cities to dust, Ukraine’s leading architects are already building upwards & advanced new buildings are rising again as symbols of…
Approximately 100 women refuse to leave their homeland within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. While most of their neighbors are long gone and their husbands have died one by one, those elderly women stubbornly hold out. Why do they insist in living within a perimeter deemed by both scientists and the…
From neighbourly disputes over garlic-heavy cooking to memories of Ceaușescu’s heatless winters, this film explores the rich social and material universe of a Romanian apartment building. It follows the story of the block’s administrator, in his effort to mediate relationships between neighbours and maintain peace and order. In doing so,…
The Bubble explores life in the largest retirement community in America, a sunny and meticulously maintained paradise, featuring 54 golf courses and 70 swimming pools, sprawling over nearly 100 square kilometers and home to more than 150,000 residents. Yet life in this place is not as…
Woman shaped statues, human shaped columns and caryatids flourish all over Paris. In a time when Baudelaire had already gone out of fashion, Agnès Varda recites for us some of his verses. Part of Le cœur battant de la ville. A short film selection by film critic Joachim Lepastier for the programme „La Semaine des…
