Living Together: The Story of De Warren
Living Together: The Story of De Warren is a documentary about the establishment of Housing Cooperative De Warren.
Losr Rivers
Not so long ago, almost every city in the world was transited by rivers. Why did they disappear? How did they vanish? And can we ever see them again? This documentary tries to find answers by corroborating with visionary urban thinkers, activists and artists from around the world, in the…
Lost Silverfish of Berlin
In the former German Democratic Republic, the war left an urgent need for space, and some of the responses were innovative: the creation of ingeniously designed mobile and telescopic structures that served as emergency housing, hospitals, community spaces, or cafés. Some of them still exist today, yet they…
Love Exists
The film shows the difference between life on the banks of river Marna, with its strolls and cinemas and the isolation of a crowded suburb in HLMs, with its outskirts and pavilions located near aeroports and strange buildings from the 60s. Part of Le cœur battant de la ville. A…
Lowland Kids
Lowland Kids follows the story of the last two teenagers living on the once thriving Isle de Jean Charles, LA, their strikingly beautiful ancestral home that is now being swallowed by the sea. Surrounded by lush, crumbling landscapes, Howard & Juliette along with their Uncle Chris, navigate the emotional journey…
Lucien Hervé. Photographer Despite Himself
The documentary presents pieces of Lucien Hervé’s work and tumultuous life as one of the main architectural photographers of the 20 th century. Beginning with 1949, he was the official photographer of Le Corbusier, and later worked with Henri Matisse, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvar Aalto and many others.
Making a Mountain
“Wilkommen, bienvenue,” the CEO sang in 2011 when BIG won the architecture competition for a large waste-to-energy plant with a ski slope on top. A camera has followed the process since the tentative beginnings of what became known – from the very first sod cut – as a visionary project…
Matache – work in regress
Matache area, in downtown Bucharest, has gone through radical changes that have influenced the community, leaving the neighbourhood in a state of social and economic disintegration. The documentary film “Matache – Berzei Buzesti” made by Dragos Lumpan is based on extensive footage. Changes in the area were recorded in videos, timelapse and photographs…
Melting Souls
Isolated from the chaos of humanity by an ice continent, Norilsk is a closed city, closed to foreigners. Largest city in the North of the world, it is also one of the most polluted on the planet. Norilsk Nickel, the leading producer of copper and nickel, has been in control since its…
Microtopia
The film shows different solutions for minimal, mobile or flexible living. In the same time it raises different questions: in contemporary times, how do we change the way we live? How can we take as little space as possible? Is living in very small space a utopia?…
Mission Statements. The Architecture of Dutch Diplomacy
In 1991 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands decided to promote national architecture abroad. All over the world new embassies were realised by prominent Dutch architects. The buildings not only marked the highly original outcome of Dutch architecture, but represented the modern approach of…
Mole Man
MOLE MAN follows RON, a 66-year-old autistic man who has spent the last five decades building a 50-room structure in his parents’ backyard. Using no nails or mortar, Ron instead creates perfectly balanced structures from scavenged materials he finds in the woods outside his Western Pennsylvania home. When Ron’s father…