A visually mesmerizing documentary that takes us to the underground Madrid, into a startling maze of tunnels, vast vaulted spaces, and railroad tracks. It presents a world of drastic defamiliarization, transforming the world that exists underneath the city into an imposingly strange and eerie scenery, as if looking into…
How do we construct homes in today’s worldwide hotspots which are facing the challenges of climate change, globalization and migration? How do people create shelters and feel at home with others and in their bodies? Boris Benjamin Bertram’s film The Human Shelter, explores different people’s ways of creating their…
The Idea Is Paramount. The Architectural Passions of Andrzej Wajda uncovers the so far unknown interests of a remarkable filmmaker Andrzej Wajda. However, it is not a biographical film but a story of passion, architecture and fascination with the culture of Japan and the Far East. Andrzej Wajda, the Academy…
What does life look like within one of the world’s most interesting residential complexes? Built in the Copenhagen suburbs by the famous Danish architect Bjarke Ingels (BIG), “8 House” has changed the lives of those who inhabit it. Just like a game of lego, The Infinite Happiness draws the lines…
“Tomorrow you’ll move in an apartment building and you’ll be happy!”. China is building huge cities from ground in the middle of the desert. For the new residents, most of them coming from rural areas, the modern facilities are unknown. The documentary follows the story of populating a ghost town.
Geo, a young Roma coppersmith from Corcova village, Romania, lacks the means to support his wife and his 6-year old son. The farmers from the surrounding villages are not buying his copper handmade objects anymore – the copper brandy stills, trays and pots the Roma coppersmith families traditionally manufacture and…
Johann Schaas is the last member of the Saxon community in Richis, small village in Romania. He keeps the key to the evangelic church in his city. There is a tradition that only the finest man from the village can be the key-holder. Who will be Johann Schaas’s successor?…
In the heart of war-ravaged Mosul, a single marble gate stands amid the ruins. Carved into its stone are two lions—the last trace of what was once one of the city’s grandest homes along the Tigris River. Like thousands of historic buildings in Mosul’s Old City, the house is gone.
There are places where (reportedly) nothing happens. People left and never came back, others died, and a few remained. Nothing new under the sun: this is the story of industrialisation and urbanisation. But what is left behind? Or is it better to ask: who? From a forgotten village, somewhere…
An odyssey through the life and legacy of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the innovative artist and educator whose pioneering approach to integrating technology into design continues to influence and inspire. In the 1920s, rising artist László Moholy-Nagy taught at the revolutionary Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany, alongside luminaries like Paul…
A Belgrade apartment divided in two tells the story of a family and serves as a symbol of a country in political turmoil. The property was split on the orders of the then communist government when Srbijanka Turajlic, who was born here, was just two years old. The door leading…
In the year 1959, Richar Oyler, a public clerk from the small town of Lone Pine, California, requests that the well-known architect Richard Neutra build his house. To Oyler’s surprise, Neutra agreed. This was the start to a most unusual friendship which led to the creation of one of the…
