Architektur.­Film.­Sommer 2025: American Dreams

Filmfestival: Architektur.­Film.­Sommer 2025

Wed 30.07., 20.30h, Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard

American Dreams

Tupperware, an American marketing phenomenon, US 2003, 58:33 min, Eov, D: Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Tupperware: a plastic product, a company and a marketing phenomenon. A Tupperware party is held somewhere in the world every 2.5 seconds. The film uses rare archive footage and home movies to explore the origins of this phenomenon with the women who helped shape the beginnings of this silent revolution in the suburbs.

20th Century, CA 2020, 02:14 min, no dialogue, D: Jake Greenup
Greenup finds an experimental approach to the American dream in suburbia in this short film.

What You’ll Remember, US 2021, 11:53 min, Eov, D: Erika Cohn, Marcia Jarmel
The video diary of a family in the San Francisco Bay Area: a narrative characterised by housing insecurity and the parents’ attempt to create a home even under difficult circumstances.

Building the American Dream, US 2019, 60:00 min, Eov, D: Chelsea Hernandez
The expansion of the suburbs in Texas is being driven by an unstoppable construction boom. The building work is undertaken by migrants under the most dire working conditions. A movement is forming to fight injustice in the construction industry.

In case of bad weather in the Az W Podium.

Curators: Lene Benz, Marlene Rutzendorfer

In cooperation with: wonderland – platform for european architecture and MuseumsQuartier Wien.