Center, Ring, Mall

This artistically composed film explores three peripheral sites of urban infrastructure: a data center, a ring road and a dilapidated shopping mall. All of these places were built with certain visions of the future and American promises of progress. But have they come to fruition as planned? Through multilingual texts, soundtracks and 3D images, these spaces are explored, poetically captured and questioned. The selected buildings represent a story of decline, renewal, memory and hope for a new beginning.

The film is screened as part of the block of short films Archi shorts | The story of the house.