Architecture on Film
OngoingA bi-monthly series of film screenings that offer an expanded view of how architecture and the city are represented and discussed across cinema, documentary and art. Presented within the singular architecture of London's Barbican Centre.
The series incorporates UK premieres, chaired discussions, reprise screenings and curated programmes, contextualised through commissioned programme notes, introductions and Q&As.
Venue
The Barbican Centre
Koolhaas HouseLife / Gan Eden
Koolhaas HouseLife / Gan Eden24 September 2008 6.30pm
Two UK premieres and two distinctive looks at the inner lives and afterlives or radical contemporary architecture. Followed by a Q+A with all filmmakers, chaired by Sam Jacob (FAT)
Code 46 + Michael Winterbottom Q&A
Code 46 + Michael Winterbottom Q&A24 November 2008 7.00pm
Depicting the future through a collage of the present. Followed by a Q+A with the director, production designer and Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG; available to watch online in full.
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Los Angeles Plays Itself21 January 2009 7.00pm
An essential documetary on the world's greatest urban film lot. Introduced by Kodwo Eshun, writer, theorist and artist.
Colossal Youth
Colossal Youth30 March 2009 7.00pm
A mesmeric feature film documenting the last days of an informal neighbourhood before its transfer to a planned development. Introduced by Jonathan Romney, Sight and Sound.
Wonderland / Streamside Day
Wonderland / Streamside Day18 May 2009 7.00pm
Suburban Dreams: An evening dedicated to the American suburb. Introduced by Geoff Shearcroft, AOC Architecture.
Buckminster Fuller Meets the Hippies / Counter Communities
Buckminster Fuller Meets the Hippies / Counter Communities14 July 2009 7.00pm
Spaceship Earth and the Designer Guru: Two films documenting architectural alternatives, and a countercultural response to visionary architect Buckminster Fuller.
In the Pit
In The Pit (En El Hoyo)28 September 2009 6.30pm
The private life of urban infrastructure envisioned through a uniquely personal take on direct cinema, in an award winning documentary on the construction of Mexico City's Periferico Freeway. Introduced by Gareth Jones, L.S.E.
London / Driftwood + Patrick Keiller Q&A
London / Driftwood + Patrick Keiller Q&ATuesday 17 November, 6.30pm
Two exceptional psycho-geographical wanderings through the changing face of London at the end of the 20th century.
Public Housing
Public HousingThurs 28 Jan 2010 6.30pm
A masterful film about the distance between problems and solutions,
structures and people – and therein perhaps the true core essence of
architecture itself. A rare opportunity to see the work of this modern
master on the big screen.
En Construcción (Work in Progress)
Mon 29 Mar 2010 6.15pmMagical cinema that takes a keen look at the transformation and inhabitation of Barcelona's El Raval district, as both a window onto wider realities and as a bridge between the past and the future. A document of a city, ‘searching for its future while jostling its past.'
Chain / Death By Chocolate
Mon 24 May 2010 8.30pmCorporate arcadias, a mosaic of global urban sprawl, the ‘superlandscape’ of anonymity, and the greatest show on earth in Jem Cohen's Chain, and artist Dan Graham's short film Death By Chocolate - which we are delighted to be bringing to the UK for the first time.
True Stories
Weds 21 July 2010 6.30pmDirected, staring and co-written by David Byrne (Talking Heads), True Stories weaves tabloid tales, musical numbers, economics and urbanism into a warm-hearted absurdist portrait of a small fictional Texan town and its inhabitants. ‘A completely cool, multi-purpose movie.’
In Comparison / The Creators of Shopping Worlds
Thurs 30 Sept 2010 6.15pmA pair of films examining architecture from the building block to mind control from esteemed filmmaker Harun Farocki, whose work - situated in a unique space between fine art and film in practice - produces visual essays in equal parts poetry and politics.
Tickets
£7.50 online (£9.50 full price)
AF Members £6.50 online (£7.50 full price) Concessions £7.50
Online: www.barbican.org.uk/film
Telephone (9am-8.00pm): 020 7638 8891
Venue
The Barbican Centre