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2013

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Call for entries

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6th Budapest Architecture Film Days, March 2014 Deadline: 31th October, 2013. Do you have a film on architecture? The Budapest Architecture Film Days is now accepting submissions for its 6th edition to be held in Budapest in March 2014. We are looking for works in all genres, forms and lengths related to design, architecture and built environment. Entry is free. The mission of the film festival is to generate a dialogue between architectural practice that finds inspiration in cinema, and cinema borrowing its subjects from architecture and the city. For more information about the festival please visit www.kek.org.hu/filmnapok/en. For related…

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Gyakornoki felhívás

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A Kortárs Építészeti Központ gyakornokot keres, heti 1-2 napos rendszeres munkavégzésre a  Budapesti Építészeti Filmnapok 2014-es kiadásának megvalósításához, rugalmas időbeosztásban. Amit szeretünk: – nyitottság és rugalmasság – jó kommunikációs készség – magabiztos angol nyelvtudás – érdeklődés az építészet, design iránt Várható feladatok: – internetes adatgyűjtés, adatrendszerezés, fordítás – kommunikáció, kapcsolattartás filmforgalmazókkal – irodán kívüli feladatok (szórólapozás, plakátelhelyezés) – részvétel a kommunikációs és közönségkapcsolati feladatokban Honoráriumot nem tudunk fizetni, de a gyakornoki program során betekintést nyerhetsz a fesztivál működésébe, megismerheted a programszervezés és a kommunikációs munka rejtelmeit, és megnézheted az összes vetített filmet. Az elejétől fogva csapattagnak tekintünk és fontos, érdemi…

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May 27: Vacant Films: Torre David and Unfinished Italy

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KÉK presents the next event of the Spring Architecture Film Series: Vacant Films: Torre David and IUnfinished Italy May 27., 8pm, Müszi (1085 Budapest, Balaha Lujza tér 1.) Torre David 2013, 22 mins, colour, Venezuelan film with English subtitles R: Urban-Think Tank Torre David, a 45-story office tower in Caracas designed by the distinguished Venezuelan architect Enrique Gómez, was almost complete when it was abandoned following the death of its developer, David Brillembourg, in 1993 and the collapse of the Venezuelan economy in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home of a community of more than 750 families, living in…

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May 6: Small and Smart: Contemporary Slovenian Architecture on Film

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KÉK presents the next event of the Spring Architecture Film Series: Small and Smart: Contemporary Slovenian Architecture on Film May 6., 7pm, Kino (1137 Budapest, Szent István krt 16.) The Slovenian Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in cooperation with the Institute for Architecture and Culture (ARK) prepared a series of short films on contemporary Slovenian architecture. The six films will be introduced by lectures of Jeff Bickert, the project’s curator (ARK) and Dr. Petra Čeferin (director of ARK). The features buildings: Terrace houses on Jurčkova Street, Ljubljana, 2099 – architect: Jože Peterkoč House D, Ljubljana, 2005–2008 – Bevk Perović…

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April 29: Christoph Draeger & Heidrun Holzfeind: Tsunami Architecture

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KÉK presents the next event of the Spring Architecture Film Series: Christoph Draeger & Heidrun Holzfeind: Tsunami Architecture 60 min, 2012, with English subtitles April 29, Toldi mozi, 7pm – in presence of the directors The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami was one of the worst natural catastrophes in history. While international attention has faded, post-tsunami challenges continue to have an impact on affected communities. In the winter of 2010/2011, Draeger and Holzfeind took a three-month trip to the five countries most affected–Thailand, Aceh/Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives and India– to investigate the current state of architecture built or reconstructed in the…

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April 15: Mission Statements – The Architecture of Diplomacy

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KÉK presents the next event of the Spring Architecture Film Series: 2011, 60 mins, colour, Dutch film with Hungarian subtitles D: Jord den Hollander 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. After 20 years the Dutch government stopped the project for economic and political reasons. The Ministry of Foreign affairs declared on April 8th 2011: ?We will move away from the traditional image of an embassy as a building with a flag and a mission staff.? The film Mission…

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