The Social Space
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New Town Utopia
New Town Utopia is a documentary feature about utopian dreams and concrete realities… the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex.
A journey of memory, place and performance guided by the artists, musicians and poets of Basildon. Facing austerit... -
Whose City?
WHOSE CITY? is a film about the transformation of Berlin from the somewhat run-down and neglected, but highly dynamic and flexible city of the 1990s to today’s ever-more chic and exclusive city. Several documentaries have in recent years been made on this issue. But where most of these films look...
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Ask Me If I Believe in the Future
How can design shape our future? What ideas, questions and strategies occur to designers as they develop future visions? How do we want to live tomorrow?
The film, promoted by the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg, engages with these pivotal questions, asking artists, designers and exhibition m... -
MICROTOPIA
How would you feel about carrying your home in your pocket or having clothes to live in? For most of us, “house” means stability, structure, and permanence. In an age of increasing population and technological gains, today’s mobile society has resulted in a demand, or perhaps a dream, for portabl...
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Unfinished Spaces
An award-winning documentary about 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...
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Habitation Légèrement Modifiées (Slightly Modified Housing)
This fascinating documentary deals with an ambitious and special renovation project in Bois-le-Prêtre, an apartment tower in Paris. The building previously nicknamed as “Alcatraz” was ready for demolition, but instead the city authorities decided to refurbish it, apartment by apartment. Due to th...
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The New Rijksmuseum - The Film
The magnificent Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the world’s preeminent museums, home to Rembrandt - Vermeer, is renovated.
Battles between the museum’s director, curators,politicians, designers are filmed over 10 years.
4 part series and feature with a glorious ending.Original title: Het Nieuw...