Bucharest. A block of flats and its inhabitants, snapshots of a life lived cheek by jowl, intimate moments shared with us. Twenty years after the fall of the Ceausescu regime, in the midst of a deep economic crisis, the people we meet in this film overflow with an unquenchable lust…
CONCRETE LOVE is the first and only documentary about one of Germany’s preeminent architects, Gottfried Boehm. Being the only German laureate of the prestigious Chicago based Pritzker Price for Architecture, he is also the patriarch of an architecture dynasty to which his sons Stephan, Peter & Paul belong. But with…
The communist regime has fallen, but the huge construction sites it left behind are still standing. A new wind blows over Romanian cities. 25 years after the economic and political liberation of the country, the urban scenery is being again transformed. The film follows the evolution of a country in…
Crackle of Time tells the story of an impossible project, and the people involved. Christopher Schlingensief was a noted director of film, opera, and theatre who devoted himself to building a self-sufficient opera village in Burkina Faso. Working with Burkina Fasoan architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, Schlingensief worked tirelessly to oversee…
Gordon Matta-Clark (1934-1978) is one of the most admired American independent artists. Originally trained as an architect, Matta-Clark developed an extensive creative career, eventually founding the influential “Anarchitecture” movement in 1974. In Crossed Words: Matta-Clark Friends, the voices of the artist’s friends and partners tell us of his adventures and…
The "Russian blocks," as they are known, represent an important segment of Bucharest's architectural and social history. Easily distinguishable from other residential complexes, most have a generous inner courtyard dominated by green spaces and playgrounds for children, while the façade has a solemn and monumental air, featuring arches and entrance portals.
My neighbour is transforming her old furniture in wood for fire. In contrast with her fragility, the ability with which the old lady smashes wood is astonishing. She is destroying not only her furniture, but also her memories related to this objects and when this wood will be used as…
In 2017 housing rose to the top of the British political agenda for the first time in a generation. But despite the media spotlight, few stories examined the catastrophic long-term failures that resulted in a chronic shortage of social housing in the United Kingdom. Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle…
In 2017 housing rose to the top of the British political agenda for the first time in a generation. But despite the media spotlight, few stories examined the catastrophic long-term failures that resulted in a chronic shortage of social housing in the United Kingdom. Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle…
It’s a story about simply life, friendship and dreams. The everyday hard work and living in the train far away from home shape the life of a group of railway workers. The male community shares its joys and fears and has to bear the consequences of being apart from their…
The film raises the subject of China’s accelerated urbanisation during the last decade and presents a case that questions the protection of historic patrimony and cultural copyright: the Chinese (one-to-one ) copy of the Austrian town Hallstatt.
The film EAMES: The Architect and the Painter endeavors to peer inside Charles and Ray Eames’s collaboration, their marriage and the “Renaissance studio” they created in a gritty warehouse in Venice, California. Family members and design historians help guide the story, while interviews with the junior designers swept into the…
