This amazing & colourful documentary follows the story of the last magicians and puppeteers colony in New Delhi, threatened with demolition by a mall and a skyscraper. Being first described by Salman Rushdie in his novel “Midnight’s Children”, the Kathputli colony is a magical place.
A concrete 45-floor skeleton in Caracas houses a community of more than 750 families. A contemporary ruin is informally transformed into a set of dwellings. The film revolves around this vertical neighbourhood with its own rules and structure.
Toujours semer – The Architecture of Șerban Sturdza follows the life and work of one of Romania’s most important contemporary architects, urban planners, and restorers. At 77, Șerban Sturdza remains a bridge-builder — between past and future, between forgotten crafts and contemporary architecture, between local communities and international cultural…
Toujours semer – The Architecture of Șerban Sturdza follows the life and work of one of Romania’s most important contemporary architects, urban planners, and restorers. At 77, Șerban Sturdza remains a bridge-builder — between past and future, between forgotten crafts and contemporary architecture, between local communities and international cultural…
Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s. The film features a cadre of renegade New York artists that sought to transcend the limitations of painting and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American…
The global population is set to rise by billions in the coming decades, with the majority of these new earthlings living in cities. A different architecture will be required to keep future urban living pleasant and healthy, says Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV, a globally operating firm of architects. Instead…
Unfinished buildings have the beauty of this which could have been. Of this which is not yet there. Of this which might be one day. (Inspired by “Le temps en ruines” by Marc Augé) Stadiums without audiences, hospitals without patients, theatres that after 50…
Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece. In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba’s National Art Schools on…
UP STAIRS is an experimental dance film that uses the ladder as a performative pretext and as a symbol of the reactivated utilitarian / public space, reinterpreted and recreated through the interaction with the body, senses and personal filters. Involving six performers form the Romanian dance community, the metaphorical composition…
The story of a young highschool teacher who goes on a birocratic adventure against a car parked on a bicycle lane.
In 1972 the first people settled in Villeneuve, Grenoble. This neighbourhood was thought out in such a manner so that people from all social backgrounds could live together in harmony. Using archives as prime material, I pose the question: what exactly did we have to gain from that era? Part of…
What photographer Lucien Hervé meant for modern European architecture, Julius Schulman meant for the American. The documentary narrated by Dustin Hoffman is at once a journey through the evolution of modern architecture and also a lively portrait of the photographer.
