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 film introduces the Spanish model of cooperative housing – where residents can live in their apartments indefinitely without owning them individually, as the building is collectively owned – and is part of a research project launched in 2021 by the architectural collective El Tinglado. The film explores existing initiatives…
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.
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.
The film follows, over the course of 20 years, artist Boris Bakal’s efforts to rehabilitate a residential building in Zagreb—a masterpiece of modernist architecture—by mobilizing the local community of co-owners and residents. The building becomes a metaphor for Croatian and Eastern European society, reflecting its dynamics, antagonisms,…
Walking on Water follows internationally renowned artist Christo on his quest to realize “The Floating Piers”, originally conceived in 1970 by Christo and his late wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude. In 2016, seven years after Jeanne-Claude’s death, this stunning, site-specific masterpiece was finally cleared to be mounted on Italy’s Lake…
