13.08.2025 to 13.08.2025 - Architekturzentrum Wien
Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025: From the Front Garden to the Motorway
FREE ENTRY, FILM & DIGITAL CULTURE, ARCHITEKTUR
Filmfestival: Architektur.Film.Sommer 2025
Wed 13.08., 20.30h, Architekturzentrum Wien - in the courtyard
From the Front Garden to the Motorway
Split Lives, HK 2021, 5:23 min, ov with English subtitles, D: Joshua Bolchover, John Lin
In China today, urbanisation and standardised construction methods are displacing traditional techniques and craftsmanship, and the architecture has become homogenous.
Not Just Roads, IN/CH/DE 2020, 67:00 min, ov with English subtitles, D: Nitin Bathla, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
Bharatmala, the Indian Garland Project, is an Indian government programme under which motorways are being built at the unprecedented speed of 23 kilometres per day. The film tells the story from the perspective of those who are being displaced by the project.
Lärm, AT, 1:35 min, no dialogue, D: Andrea Milanovic, Jakob Aumayer, Sara Popelak
A collage of sounds and images from the Stellantis works in Aspern Seestadt.
Die Wüste lebt, AT 2022, 55:00 min, ov in German, D: Oliver Ressler
On 6 September 2021, construction plant was blocked at the Hausfeldstraße U2 station to halt the construction of the Lobau motorway and the so-called "Stadtstraße" (City Road). The film follows the occupation, known as the "desert", over five months, bringing the activists involved in front of the camera.
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.
