The McIntyre Block (1977)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 20分
演出 : Robert Lower
シノプシス
A turn of the 20th Century office block at Portage and Main. What was once Winnipeg's most prestigious commercial address has become a catch-all for the marginalized and history's leftovers. A snapshot of a fading era, now gone for good.
Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems. For more than five decades he developed pioneering solutions reflecting his commitment to the potential of innovative design to create technology that does "more with less" and thereby improve human lives. He spent much of his life traveling the world lecturing and discussing his ideas with thousands of audiences. Now more relevant than ever, this film captures Fuller's ideas and thinking told in his own words.
Gaudi's Sagrada Familia has been continuously under construction since 1882.
A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition, WOBA, to demonstrate innovative aspects of modern architecture and highlight their differences from the event’s highly conservative approach. Despite its ad campaign roots, Richter's touch is not absent; The surviving version, aimed at a "bourgeois" Swiss public, presents decluttered, functional architecture and decor as superior to the traditional and luxurious "ancient" ways of living.
海辺の別荘に2年前に投函された手紙が届く。手紙のやり取りを始めると、男は時間軸が違うと気づく。そして未来では男が死んでしまい、女はそれを回避するために行動する。男の死は免れ、2人は出会うことができた。
イギリス。バクスター夫妻は、突如として愛娘クリスティン(シャロン・ウィリアムズ)を水難事故で失ってしまう。 数ヶ月後、ジョン(ドナルド・サザーランド)は妻ローラ(ジュリー・クリスティ)を連れ、教会修復の仕事でイタリアのベニス(ヴェネツィア)へと赴いていた。ある日、夫妻は年老いた姉妹と邂逅する。姉ウェンディ(クレリア・マタニア)曰く、盲目の妹ヘザー(ヒラリー・メイソン)には霊感があり、赤いレインコートを着た亡き娘さんの姿が視えるというのだ。その後、姉妹と再会したローラは、亡き娘の言葉を借りたヘザーから「ベニスを去らなければ、ジョンの身に危険が降りかかる」と忠告される。ジョンはその警告に取り合わず、ローラは不安になるのだった。
A documentary film about Seoul City Hall Construction. The construction project has a hard going in every way. A city plan, excessive administrative notions, a design and all got mingled up. Can the project sail, yes?
Nazi Third Reich propaganda film that used architecture as a statement about "racial accomplishment," and so called "racial superiority." Hitler claimed that between 1934 and 1940, the Nazi rule of Germany had produced architectural uniqueness, and this film was produced to shown to attempt to validate that. The opening montage gives a survey of earlier Gothic and Baroque structures in the country as an example of "architectural superiority" that the German race was said to be the sole inventor of; then moves on to deride the recent construction of the Bauhaus school (with a racially motivated score of Jazz music) and an example of German "architectural decay." Then proceeds to show off buildings constructed by the Nazi and an architectural revival, to "last 1000 years," Film also spends a great of time dwelling on massive and "busy" monuments that had been erected all over the county.
著名な建築家ロイヤル(ジェレミー・アイアンズ)が設計を手掛けた高層マンション群、ハイ・ライズがロンドン近郊に完成。豪華な内装が施され、スーパー、プール、学校、レストラン、医療施設なども完備したそのマンションに、医師のラング(トム・ヒドルストン)が入居してくる。毎晩のように隣人たちの開くパーティーに参加するうちに、彼は低層階と高層階の住民の間で階級をめぐるあつれきが起きているのを知る。ある日、停電を機にハイ・ライズの内部はすさまじい混乱に見舞われ……。
Vertical Expectations is a documentary that explores the nexus between architecture, development and society through an ethnographic analysis of the current building of the Shard.
The geographical dead center of North America and the beloved birthplace of Guy Maddin, Winnipeg, is the frosty and mysterious star of Maddin’s film. Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this work, conjuring a city as delightful as it is fearsome.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design with provocative exhibitions that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture. This film captures their extraordinary evolution and unique process in reimagining the public identities of Lincoln Center and the once derelict High Line railroad tracks.
A year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms where students design & build to transform their hometown community. The film follows Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller as they teach the fundamentals of design, architecture and construction to a class of high school juniors in rural North Carolina.
Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home—a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. After a while, Ingrid starts to feel the presence of her husband in the flat when he is supposed to be at work. At the same time, her lonely neighbor who has grown tired of even the most extreme pornography shifts his attention to a woman across the street. Ingrid knows about this but her real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over.
Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project's residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.
When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject's organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film.
A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.
他人の夢に潜入してアイデアを盗み出す企業スパイのコブは国際指名手配犯であるが、それと同時に妻モルを殺した容疑もかけられていた。そんな彼に日本人男性サイトーからある依頼が。それはこれまでのように思考を盗み出すのではなく、標的にした人物の潜在意識に、あるアイデアを移植する“インセプション”という仕事だった。コブはサイトーを含むスペシャリスト6人を集め、標的の男性ロバートの夢に潜入しようとする。