Live dance performance by the choreographer Sylva Šafková combines contemporary dance with a visual story describing the picture of distorted reality. Using mirror reflections one reaches quite unreal, however, the...
Is Brasília the prime example of modernism or an architectural utopia? The opulent project of the so-called city of the future by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and the urbanist Lucio...
In 2021, ten years has passed since the opening of the new ČVUT building in Prague for the local Faculty of Architecture. The significant construction designed by the first lady...
The latest film about a legend of modern architecture. Alvar Aalto together with his wife, creative partner and architect Aino Aalto built an uneasy, yet important path towards modern architectural...
What does dance have in common with architecture? A great deal, at least in the oeuvre of Aires Mateus – freedom of movement, sense for composition and detail. The architecture...
What does dance have in common with architecture? A great deal, at least in the oeuvre of Aires Mateus – freedom of movement, sense for composition and detail. The architecture...
What does dance have in common with architecture? A great deal, at least in the oeuvre of Aires Mateus – freedom of movement, sense for composition and detail. The architecture...
Remarkable film tribute to Peter Rice introduces an extraordinary career and character of one of the most acknowledged engineers of the 20th century – his childhood in the Irish Dundalk,...
Another Kind of Knowledge is the result of a conversation that started in 2017 with the renowned Danish architect Dorte Mandrup, who for years has been an established figure in...
„The space, which exists in our imagination, gives us a lot of freedom. Because we are re-creating it over and over again.“ This poetic film travels in the spiritual realm...
Lecture of the V&A curator Olive Horsfall Turner (online) and screening of films The Disappearance of Robin Hood and Brutal Neglect The most daring social housing project in the British...
In the past years, the faith of the Berlin Brutalist building, former research lab built in 1981 and used for animal testing for decades, has raised heated discussions. The film...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Fascinating view in history of the legendary avantgarde school uniting art, crafts and design in one piece It has been hundred years since Walter Gropius founded Bauhaus in Weimar. The...
Visually appealing combination of dance, architecture and film in distinctive architectural locations of Portugal. Dancing bodies in the film bring to life the static character while emphasizing the uniqueness of...
With regard to vast concrete construction of high-rise housing estates in densely populated cities of India, a project emerged that is based on sustainable constructions out of mud coexisting with...
The decay of Hotel Thermal and its planned controversial reconstruction stands like a brutalist exclamation mark in the debate about preserving the architecture from the 1960s and 1980s. The English...
Incredible story about the representative building of the Bastille opera in Paris built in 1989 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. The winner...
Silent mystery thriller will come to life accopanied by the music ensamble FORMA Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari significantly influenced the development...
An inspiring documentary about four significant architects of the 20th century and their innovative view on the role of architecture and a city where the power of a community and...
Audiovisual comeback to the near past, when the Prague neighbourhood of Vinohrady witnessed a disappearance of the building complex Transgas – a unique exemplar of early use of high-tech style...
How do we deal with the past through architecture? Constructions built during the past regimes are closely tied to many prejudices of contemporary society regardless of the quality of the...
The premiere presents a film created specifically for the Day of Architecture 2020. What do the future inhabitants of new architectural visions dream about and how do they imagine their...
Dodge House designed by Irving Gill in 1914 and finished two years later was the first real modernist residence in the West. Astonishing house spreading out on almost 2000 m2...
Poetic documentary describes – in an apparently unbiased way – new means of dealing with illegal drugs in the Moscow urban jungle. The film plays out in sleepy neighbourhoods between...
What is the most difficult thing in life of an architect in the DDR? To resist the powerful authorities or to save his marriage? The film Die Architekten brings us...
Music video by Terra in the black and white picture is dominated by the Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord at Jiřího z Poděbrad Square by the...
Creating comfort in the not so spacious Ukrainian housing estates, temporary balconies used to be a complete rarity. Interviews with balcony owners, Council employees, historians, sociologists and also urbanists, developers...
Experimental film by the world-renowned Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, among others the author of several reconstructions in Prague, is an abstract cinematic testimony of the architecture of the brain. Psychodrama...
Documentary outlining the life and work of the prominent author of modern Czech architecture The director Pavel Jirásek introduces historical importance as well as the global and local impact of the...
Documentary outlining the life and work of the prominent author of modern Czech architecture The director Pavel Jirásek introduces historical importance as well as the global and local impact of the...
Documentary outlining the life and work of the prominent author of modern Czech architecture The director Pavel Jirásek introduces historical importance as well as the global and local impact of the...
Documentary outlining the life and work of the prominent author of modern Czech architecture The director Pavel Jirásek introduces historical importance as well as the global and local impact of the...
A portrait of a fragile woman of steel follows both her work in interior design and architecture arousing strong, yet ambivalent reactions as well as her personal journey of a...
Villa Fröhlich in Černošice is one of the early designs by the architect Jan Kotěra. The summer house uniquely combines the influence of English residential architecture with the Czech vernacular tradition....
In a picturesque Rumanian village of Letea located between water canals, rural woods, Ukraine and the Black sea, animals have become the most common inhabitants of a number of abandoned...
Documentary portrait of Czech architect, professor and outstanding character Alena Šrámková captures her lifetime inextricably tied to the destiny of her projects and executed buildings. Her work not following fashionable...
Pritzker-prize winner of 2022 Francis Kéré creates simple technology designs for both developing and high-income countries and uses local materials to enhance social, economic and political environments. The film documents...
What is the secret of possibly America’s greatest ever architects? It is not the first documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright and certainly not the last film about the man most...
What is the secret of possibly America’s greatest ever architects? It is not the first documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright and certainly not the last film about the man most...
What is the secret of possibly America’s greatest ever architects? It is not the first documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright and certainly not the last film about the man most...
What is the secret of possibly America’s greatest ever architects? It is not the first documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright and certainly not the last film about the man most...
What is the secret of possibly America’s greatest ever architects? It is not the first documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright and certainly not the last film about the man most...
What is the secret of possibly America’s greatest ever architects? It is not the first documentary about Frank Lloyd Wright and certainly not the last film about the man most...
Originally from Switzerland the architect Albert Frey started his career in the studio of Le Corbusier working on the iconic Villa Savoye. Strongly influenced by this experience, he left his...
The Next Palace recalls the existence of the Trade Fair Palace in the last 90 years in the form of a narrative bend. The palace has had a troubled life. It...
One of the most acknowledged Australian architects and the laureate of the Nobel Prize in architecture (Pritzker Prize) Glenn Murcutt takes on the leading role in this documentary about a...
One of the pioneers of modernism was the architect and designer Eileen Gray, the woman behind the iconic E-1027 table and the exemplary functionalist villa on the French coast. The...
Danish design is known all over the world for its simplicity, functionality and longevity, but most female designers from the so called 'Golden Age of Danish design', which spanned from...
Life on the rooftops offers an unusual view from above on the Cuban capital. Its inhabitants retired here from the noise and smell of the bustling city. Nonetheless, the beautiful...
Documentary follows the last year in the life of Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, the author of almost hundred executions on the verge of sculpture and architecture. Karavan describes his own...
A humorous, personal and provocative film addressing the phenomenon of gentrification The film’s main arc spans the author’s diverse living environments, beginning with his childhood in a rich neighbourhood to...
Prora, the so-called Monster by the sea, is considered the longest building in the world. Originally planned as a seaside resort of the Third Reich, after the Second World War...
Originally a blacksmith, but most of all a self-taught designer and architect Jean Prouvé significantly contributed to the outlook of French architecture of the 20th century and to the technological...
The Pritzker-Prize-winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is not world-famous, despite a lifetime of acclaimed work such as the Ford Foundation headquarters and College Life Insurance Company as well as 60...
What happens when the place around us starts to rapidly change and/or disappears completely? Film by the Czech-Swedish filmmaker follows the fate of the Swedish town of Kiruna located above...
A series of shorts about buildings by Jan Kotěra shot by several Czech filmmakers on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of the great founder of Czech modernism Shown...
A story by the director Gilles Coudert about growing up in the largest complex of houses by Le Corbusier in Europe combines testimonies of many contemporary artists and inhabitants, who...
New cultural and science center Buddy Holly Hall grew out of the community needs inspired by the physical and cultural milieu of Lubbock, a city in Texas. The name of...
In the immense Chinese city of Chonging, the last old quarter is about to disappear. Will the people cope with the change? In the third largest and most populated Chinese...
A poetic portrait of a woman leaving the loneliness of a city apartment and finding a new home on water. A short meditative film about living together with unruly waters...
Bratislava in the past few years is a place of relatively fast urban transformation, which is represented by the new and clean straight roadway lines. Demolition and vast construction make...
While water is not the natural habitat for Felidae, what is the faith of the lion in the Hotel Thermal’s emblem in the spa town of Karlovy Vary? A short...
The Amager Bakke waste plant in Copenhagen proves that architecture does not have to serve only one purpose. The famous Danish studio BIG of the architect Bjarke Ingels managed to...
The Swiss architect Mario Botta specialises in sacral buildings, each of which he approaches with a unique individual style. As one of the few he has built space for service...
How is the life in one of the most polluted cities in the world? Looking very inhospitable, with winter temperatures of thirty degrees Celsius below zero, the city makes the...
How is the life in one of the most polluted cities in the world? Looking very inhospitable, with winter temperatures of thirty degrees Celsius below zero, the city makes the...
Short intimate cinematic portrait is a personal tribute to the author's grandmother, the architect Alena Šrámková (1929-2022). The 2019 film follows the architect in the new building of the Faculty...
Story about the construction and subsequent reconstruction of the German pavilion in Barcelona designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich The functionalist pavilion from granite stands at the...
Story about the construction and subsequent reconstruction of the German pavilion in Barcelona designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich The functionalist pavilion from granite stands at the...
Can a natural material like mud present the future of construction? Mud Frontiers is an experimental project led by the architect and lecturer at the American Berkeley University Ronald Rael...
Unusual approach to architecture through the lens of music videos. What can these miniature films tell us about architecture and vice versa? The artists offer an alternative form of perceiving...
The Berlin “Brachen” are unique urban spaces that grew out of the post-war debris, economic hardship and geopolitical division. These ostentatiously empty spaces turned into laboratories for botanists, artists as...
The French town of Marseille is composed of one third of residential buildings that increasingly hide behind barriers and walls. The suburban area of Coin Joli until recently connected to...
Short experimental film investigates the architecture of the former Yugoslavian pavilion at the Brussels World Fair, Expo 58, which serves today as an elementary school. Together with a group of...
When the filmmaker Andy Howlett first set out with his camera to document the final days of the Birmingham Brutalist Central Library in the area called Paradise Circus, little did...
Short capture of life in the peaceful Barcelonian neighbourhood Montbau, a unique housing estate created in the second half of the 50s. This public space is dominated by a combination...
Dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch was a legend of the international dance scene. She transformed the language of movement with unique multimedia creations arousing emotions while offering an inimitable visual...
Why can’t we afford to live in our own cities anymore? And who is there to blame? This turbulent journey follows the rocketing rents and personal tragedies. In this powerful...
“Simplicity is the key to excellence.” (Dieter Rams) How does the house of the legend of German industrial design look like? The most recent documentary by the independent filmmaker Gary...
RODAS is an audiovisual project reflecting the contemporary meaning of living together. Poetics of the household is formed with humor, charm and irony articulating various moments of the everyday in...
Station halls by the architect Josef Danda can be found all across the Czech Republic, from Cheb to Ostrava. The student short called Route transforms impressions captured during a journey...
Short cinematic fair of monumental Brutalist buildings in the post-Soviet bloc, which in face of the war in Ukraine disappear quicker than ever before. The film was created as part...
A fascinating story of the futuristic complex Biosphere 2 – an architectural and ecological experiment. Eight idealistic scientists closed themselves for two years in the 1990s in order to start...
Symphonie Diagonale (Diagonal Symphony) is one of the earliest works in abstract film to have been conserved and it is the only one by this artist that has survived to our...
Geographical and intellectual journey that leads to “cracking the mysterious case of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Los Angeles houses”. Voices of architecture critics, curators of Mayan and Pre-Columbian art are mixed...
Welcome to Villages, the largest retirement community in America. In the sun-lit and perfectly kept paradise on 82 km2 there are more than 150 residents aged 55+. 96 recreation centres,...
The film offers expert opinions together with intimate portraits of inhabitants of the social housing, whose ideals about affordable community living disappeared as a steam over the new developer projects...
What does our city stand on? What is the impact of building industry on the environment? A major film by the Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter records not only the global...
Short documentary film, zooming in on a Bauhaus style cottage The Hatch House is a wooden cottage designed in 1960 in the modernist style by Jack Hall. Using stop motion...
Short documentary film, zooming in on a Bauhaus style cottage The Hatch House is a wooden cottage designed in 1960 in the modernist style by Jack Hall. Using stop motion...
Short documentary film, zooming in on a Bauhaus style cottage The Hatch House is a wooden cottage designed in 1960 in the modernist style by Jack Hall. Using stop motion...
Short documentary film, zooming in on a Bauhaus style cottage The Hatch House is a wooden cottage designed in 1960 in the modernist style by Jack Hall. Using stop motion...
Short documentary film, zooming in on a Bauhaus style cottage The Hatch House is a wooden cottage designed in 1960 in the modernist style by Jack Hall. Using stop motion...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
Lyrical documentary about he we create our home Where is my home? Is it where I feel content and intrinsically happy? This film experiment accurately hit the current social atmosphere...
This dramatic story following the steps of a distinguished architect of Czechoslovakian origin, who influenced international architecture, will be presented on the occasion of the 130. anniversary of his birth....
An intimate journey over the ocean of Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, a distinguished personality of the Bauhaus school. The goal to continue developing ideas of the influential European school in America eventually...
The director and artist Jill Magid traces the controversial legacy of the most celebrated Mexican architect Luis Barragán Known as “the artist among architects”, Luis Barragán is among the world’s...
The director and artist Jill Magid traces the controversial legacy of the most celebrated Mexican architect Luis Barragán Known as “the artist among architects”, Luis Barragán is among the world’s...
Is there really only one original? In light of globalization, the copying of artworks as well. As architecture has become increasingly relevant topic. The director Benoit Felici presents a ride...
Four years in one street. Culturally diverse Hoxton Street in London has in recent years recorded an influx of a new group of inhabitans bringing in digital startups, good coffee...
Will Venice turn into a ghost town at nightfall? The romantic idea of medieval Venice is long gone. Only a city without life remained as a memorial to a dead...
At various times during the 60s and the 70s, the urgency of the struggle triggered “a cinema right now”, underground as well as militant, experimental as much as documentary. That immediate...
Welcome to Longyearbyen, one of the most isolated and coldest places in the world The city of Longyearbyen located in the Norwegian Svalbard Islands resembles a moonscape rather than a...
Welcome to Longyearbyen, one of the most isolated and coldest places in the world The city of Longyearbyen located in the Norwegian Svalbard Islands resembles a moonscape rather than a...
Welcome to Longyearbyen, one of the most isolated and coldest places in the world The city of Longyearbyen located in the Norwegian Svalbard Islands resembles a moonscape rather than a...
Poetic take on the family house Casa Trevo also called the Trefoil House by the architectural duo Elsa Caetano and Olivier Ottevaere. Abstract sculptural spaces with concrete facades represent a...
Extraordinary road trip by currently the most celebrated filmmakers of architecture will lead into the depths of the hustling city. Behind the steering wheel of his vintage Alfa Romeo, the...
Visual fair called Trusses is a celebration of modern engineering. Meditative shots follow the journey of four parts of the truss from their production in the Belgian Saint-Vith over to...
What is the daily work flow of Winy Maas, co-founder of the world-renowned Dutch studio MVRDV? Intercontinental routes – from finishing the mirror-covered museum building in his hometown of Rotterdam,...
Buildings by Samuel G. and William B. Wiener made the city of Shreveport in the 1930s an early centre of modern American architecture. After visiting Bauhaus, the most prestigious European...
What is the language of a city? Three chapters of a city acoustics. The record of time, journey and space. A series of short animated films based on stereophonic recordings...
In the Valldaura residence, a laboratory led by the Barcelona institute IAAC, a group of young architects from around the world take part in a short-term educational programme. Struck by...
An organic vision of the unique house of baron Empain in an art deco style located in the residential part of Brussels. Completed in 1934, the villa had served as...
Online tour of a house by the MVRDV studio and screening of a documentary about building the city of Kemerovo Warm up in MVRDV An unexpected architectural performance gives the...
What role can architects have in addressing homelessness? And how can cities become better homes for all? This short follows the lives of people without home in a city on...
From destructive bombing attacks during the Second World War to an epicentre of the far right in Germany. The documentary shows a complex destruction of the centre of Dresden and...