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The Architecture Foundation presents a Mexican Road Movie
In The Pit (En El Hoyo)
(Mexico 2006, Dir Juan Carlos Rulfo, 84 min)
Monday 28 September 2009, 6.30pm
The Architecture Foundation continues Architecture On Film; its bi-monthly series of film screenings at the Barbican Centre that take a lateral look at architecture and the city, as represented and discussed across documentary, video art and the movies.
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Winner of Best International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, In The Pit is not a road movie in the traditional sense. Instead this intimate and affecting films looks at the construction crew building Mexico City's Periferico Freeway, charting the social reality at the core of over ten miles of soaring reinforced concrete. Through objectively compassionate portraits of a miscellany of characters such as the wolf-whistling El Voyeur and the brusquely realist mason El Grande, the film charts the coarse life and camaraderie of the workers involved in the creation of a huge slab of the city, both floating in the air and submerged in the pit. The private life of urban infrastructure envisioned through a uniquely personal take on direct cinema, full of humour and grace.
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 - 8pm): 020 7638 8891
Venue: Screen 2, The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Previously:
THE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION presents:
ARCHITECTURE ON FILM at BARBICAN FILM
18 Aug 2008
The Architecture Foundation, in partnership with the Barbican, presents the launch of Architecture on Film, a bi-monthly offering looking at the built environment’s depiction in cinema, with an accompanying question and answer session with the filmmakers.
The series kicks off on 24 September with a stellar double bill headlined by the UK Premiere of the acclaimed documentary Koolhaas HouseLife, by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine; an inspired look at Rem Koolhaas’ Maison à Bordeaux through the eyes and routines of its cleaner, the wonderful Guadalupe. This will be accompanied by Niklas Goldbach’s short film, Gan Eden, set in the remains of MVRDV’s Dutch Pavilion. In November we are delighted to host a question and answer session with director Michael Winterbottom following a screening of his futuristic love story Code 46.
The films offer a distinctive, sometimes provocative, sometimes humorous, investigation into the inner lives and afterlives of iconic contemporary architecture and the complex narratives that are lived through and around the structures.
Wed 24 Sep 7pm, Barbican
Koolhaas HouseLife
A documentary about Rem Koolhaas’ landmark house in Bordeaux as told through the routines and anecdotes of its cleaner, Guadalupe, in a series of wistful and humorous vignettes that bring the building to life. Offering an antidote to common representations of architecture devoid of people and function, the building becomes a character as the viewer enters the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of an icon of contemporary architecture; moving rooms, leaky taps and all. The film has also been selected for inclusion in this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. A short interview with Rem Koolhaas will be screened following the film. France 2008 Dir. Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine 60 min.
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Gan Eden
Built for Hanover’s World EXPO 2000, MVRDV’s Dutch Pavilion was both a critique of consumer society and an example of environmentally sustainable architecture. Left standing and abandoned at the end of the expo, the pavilion has already fallen into disrepair. Gan Eden, premiered for Architecture on Film, charts two men wandering through this extremely contemporary ruin.
Germany 2006 Dir. Niklas Goldbach 10 min.
Mon 24 Nov 6.30pm, Barbican
Code 46 plus Barbican ScreenTalk with Michael Winterbottom
A thriller/love story set in the near future, Code 46 portrays a dauntingly possible world of gated urban city-states and desert slums, extrapolated from contemporary urban reality and a collage of Dubai, Shanghai and the Jubilee Line. Set against this Orwellian conclusion to the rapid urbanization of the globe, an illicit love affair between a government inspector (Tim Robbins) and a woman set on breaking the rules
(Samantha Morton) plays out. Director Michael Winterbottom will be in conversation following the screening.
UK 2003 Dir. Michael Winterbottom 92 min.
Future films to be screened in Architecture on Film at the Barbican include Thom Andersen’s quintessential cinematic essay and visioning of the city as a giant film lot, Los Angeles Plays Itself; and John O’Hagan’s Sundance screened documentary Wonderland, on Levittown, the USA’s first planned suburban community.
Architecture on Film at the Barbican, London, info from the Architecture Foundation 180808
The Architecture Foundation promotes and encourages the best in contemporary architecture and brings it to a wide public. It runs a rich programme comprising talks, events, exhibitions, films, design initiatives and competitions, research, policy work and films. Established in 1991 as Britain's first independent architecture centre, The Architecture Foundation actively bridges the gap between decision-makers, design professionals and the public. www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
Cinema Hotline: 0845 120 7527
Film Ticket Prices
Standard: £7.50 online (£9.50 full price),
Architecture Foundation Members/Barbican Members: £6.50 online (£7.50 full price)
Concessions: £7.50
Under 15: £4.50
Address: Barbican, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Ticket / Venue information: www.barbican.org.uk/film
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