Posted on: 20th February 2025
Online Architecture Film Festival “Fabulating Futures: New Narratives in Architecture”
Initiated in response to COVID lockdowns in 2020, movies in wonderland presents the fourth season of the #Online #Architecture #Film #Festival, recommending a selection of freely accessible films online, curated on the topic of “Fabulating Futures.”
“Fabulating Futures: New Narratives in Architecture”
collects and shares new narratives about architecture
and building practice, understanding the human and the
and the built environment as part of a complex ecosystem
that is shaped by human and non-human actors.
The online film festival engages with film and architecture in dialog with political movements, ecological activism, economic concepts and urbanism to explore possible futures of care for societies in times of multiple crises.
Program:
Fire Is Our Relation, US, 12 min., eOV, D: Costa Boutsikaris & Anna Palmer
As California battles massive wildfires that are increasing in size, scale, and severity, several tribes are working to revive traditional Native American land management practices that can help contain the blazes and lessen the effects of drought. On the Klamath River in Northern California, the Karuk Tribe is dedicated to managing the landscape and reviving traditional knowledge of prescribed fire. Fire suppression from colonization has had detrimental effects on landscapes throughout the world. The Karuk Tribe is bringing good fire back to their ancestral lands, showing how their traditional management practices make landscapes resilient and safe.
Film Link Fire is Our Relation via Global Oneness Project
Building Visions / Auroville, India, AT 2022, 26 min., german OV, D: Diego Breit Lira
The documentary “Building Visions” deals with major issues facing our civilization today: Climate change, rapidly growing cities, education and resource consumption, the involvement of local communities and networking. India’s megacities are bursting at the seams. In order to create new living space, the construction industry blows gigantic amounts of CO2 into the already polluted air every day. Auroville is located in the south of the country. The city was designed on the drawing board in 1968 and sees itself as a field for experimentation, and not just in terms of architecture. There is no private property, the individual is part of the community. And everything here belongs to the community.
Film Link Visionen Bauen / Building Visions via ORF ON
The Last of the Nightingales, US 2025, 33 min, eOV, D: Masha Karpoukhina
The sign of a healthy ecosystem is the sound it makes. Masha Karpoukhina’s documentary follows soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause who lost everything in a California wildfire. The poetic film is part of the New Yorker Documentaries.
Film Link The Last of the Nightingales via The New Yorker
Material World – STEEL: Iron Tail, Iron Tale, US, 2021, 5min. eOV, D: Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Severin Barenbold, Elif Erez, Shira Grosman
Seemingly isolated construction details are physical artifacts that impact entire regions tectonically: mountains, rivers, forests, populations. What Donna Haraway calls “the appropriation of nature as a resource for the productions of culture” is grounded in historical colonial projects, made visible in the architecture and infrastructure of our cities and settlements—at least, for those who care to look.
Starting by a detail of a project and tracing the material to its source, the work aims to make visible the global chains of exploitation that translate the Earth resources into our built environment by investigating most prevalent and banal construction materials (i.e. plaster, wood, concrete, brick, steel) and their political economy. (excerpt: Transfer Video Award)
Film Link to Material World – STEEL: Iron Tail, Iron Tale via Transfer Video Award
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