WMAIA Film Series: REGISTER NOW
April 13, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
THE WMAIA FILM SERIES RESUMES MARCH 16th – REGISTER NOW!
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Wednesday March 16 | 6:30 PM | Zoom 1 LU Approval Pending
Gehry’s Vertigo
Gehry’s Vertigo shakes up the idealized image of one of the most iconic buildings of contemporary architecture: the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, built by Frank Gehry in 1997.The film allows an immersion in the day-to-day life of this living myth and offers a rare and vertiginous trip on the top roofs of the building, putting us in the shoes of the climbers in charge of glass cleaning. Surprisingly realistic and highly emotional, the film observes through their ascensions, techniques and difficulties, the complexity and virtuosity of Frank Gehry’s architecture.
Wednesday March 30 | 6:30 PM | Zoom 1 LU Approval Pending
Tokyo Ride
Revisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way, the film takes us on board Ryue Nishizawa’s vintage Alfa Romeo for a day long wandering in the streets of Tokyo, immersing us in the city’s busy daily life. More than a portrait, in the classical sense, of one of the most talented and celebrated Japanese architect of today, the film renders in its pure spontaneity the experience of this friendly urban drift. Ryue Nishizawa narrates along the way his strong relationship with his hometown through some of his favorite sites, buildings that have influenced him, and some of his own architecture projects.
Wednesday April 13 | 6:30 PM | Zoom 1 LU approval pending
Homo Urbanus Venetianus
After the trying constraints of lockdown and social distancing that brutally reduced urban space to its strict minimum, making it into a place where isolated individuals merely cohabit, Homo Urbanus is a cinematic odyssey offering a vibrant tribute to what we have been most cruelly deprived of: namely, public space. Taking the form of a free-wheeling journey around the world (10 films, 10 cities), the project invites us to observe in detail the multiple forms and complex interactions that exist every day between people and their urban environments. We will screen the film focused on Venice. Presented in a comparative dynamic through the lens of a selection of themes and issues linked with the street daily life, the videos enable us to perceive each of these different urban contexts as an experimental, local and unique laboratory answering the same global challenge of how can we live all together.
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