J.T.: You?ve done films on presidential lookalikes and enigmatic musicians. What inspired you to do a film on Pruitt-Igoe? C.F.: I was doing some research on how to decorate my home that I just bought in mid-century style. In the process of researching modern architecture, I came across Pruitt-Igoe. It was fascinating to me because encoded into this idea of modern architecture was the idea that you could have social change come about and Pruitt-Igoe was viewed as this failure of it. And then slowly as I researched it I came to decide it was a much deeper story than…
Tell us about your new film, Mission Statements, The Architecture of Diplomacy. JdH: After finishing my last film on Africa, I had the idea to make a film about the Netherlands because everybody was talking about the identity of the country because of the immigrants. They said that they have knocked our identity but we are all the same, we are all individuals and I thought of a means to tell this story. The Dutch government in the 90s started the programme of promoting Dutch architecture through commissioning embassies. A couple of new embassies developed in Africa and South America…
Anette Baldauf, co-director of the film The Gruen Effect on the legacy of Victor Gruen Victor Gruen was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century: He is regarded as the father of the shopping mall. How fundamentally his concept would change the world was something that not even this immigrant from Vienna, who was noted for thinking big, could have foreseen. In the nineteen fifties, Gruen built large-scale “shopping towns” in the suburban sprawl of the United States. Based on the model of European city centers they were not only to facilitate shopping but also to strengthen…
Interview with Kaspar Astrup Schröder, director of the film My Playground, and Bjarke Ingels, founder of the Bjarke Ingels Group, Coppenhagen My Playground is really two films, it isn?t only a film about Parkour, it is also a film about architecture and urban space and the relationships between people and the space they live in. Architecture doesn?t normally get looked at this way. Kaspar: When I started doing these test shoots with the Parkour teams I started composing my pictures according to the buildings and the space, with these guys moving within the space it became a totally different experience….
Megvan a bejutott filmek listája! Blahangja | Belépni tilos | Duna Tanösvény | Hangos felületek | Hódítsuk vissza a várost! | Lánchuszár | Menet | Nagyvárosi régészet | Perception | Pesti Kornél | Roadblock | Shimada bácsi kalandjai: A poszt-BKV város | Síkvidéki downhill | Tanyavilág Budapesten | Ültess! A filmek bemutatására és a közönségszavazásra 2012. március 31-én, szombaton, 20:30-kor kerül sor a Kino Moziban, a díjátadó és ünneplés az Apacuka Varietében. Döntő a Kinoban március 31-én, szombaton fél 9-kor. További információ: http://filmnapok7.kek.org.hu/ssb/
New deadline of the shortfilm competition is 15th February 2012. Make those movies! http://filmnapok7.kek.org.hu/en/short-shots/
Report of Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival 2011 In March 2012, KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre organizes Budapest Architecture Film Days for the fourth time in Toldi cinema. The Film Days were inspired by the Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival: its director, Jord den Hollander encouraged us to create our own festival on his 2005 visit to Budapest. This year Jord invited the Budapest team to Rotterdam, here is the report of the Festival. The article is continued on hg.hu (in Hungarian): www.hg.hu/cikk/epiteszet/13306-think-big-act-small Huszár Daniella, Soltész Noémi
The Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre has opened its call for entries and will accept submissions of Budapest short length films for the 4th Budapest Architecture Film Days. We are expecting short films and video works focusing on the transformations of Budapest?s urban spaces and built environment, in a critical and problem-oriented way: pieces should be looking at significant changes in the urban landscape and structure, new ways of using the city and the appearance of new urban functions, reflecting on the defining characteristics, moving forces and consequences of these phenomena. More information: http://filmnapok7.kek.org.hu/en/short-shots/