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Luanda, Angola. The streets are deserted, the buildings empty and no ships leave the harbour. What's left are ghosts and memories. Concrete Affection – Zopo Lady is inspired by journalist Ryszard Kapuściński's descriptio
In the center of city Dnipro, Ukraine, during the 50 years abandoned hotel ‘PARUS’ (SAIL) is existing. It had to become the symbol of the grandiosity of Dnipropetrovsk as the homeland of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
Based on their experiences living and working amongst Soviet-era concrete, panel-block apartments, the filmmaker, together with five visual artists, examine past and present attitudes towards their former homes. Combinin
The city of Nova Gorica was designed as an example of modernism based on the idea of shared public space. The documentary short follows preparations for the renovation of a neighborhood where playgrounds with unique conc
A woman meets the man of her dreams in the wrong dimension.
Concrete Playground is more than just a magic show; it is a unique film that is part documentary, part music video, part road movie and is bound together with incredible real life magic. The DVD was filmed in London, Bra
As Samay nears his thirtieth birthday, he and his girlfriend Meenakshi embark on a road trip to a tranquil hill spot on a Saturday afternoon. Between winding roads and quiet moments, their conversations unravel reflectio
Remix of images, HK revisited.
Atmospheric thriller that explores a conurbation on the outskirts of Mexico City. Mixing digital found footage and using Google StreetView as a tool for traveling and framing the urban space this film is a search for the
Between bare concrete walls, unfinished structures and stalled escalators, an otherworldly, gleaming metallic figure emerges. What was once imagined as a thriving city centre now stands unfinished and abandoned. Modernit
A man and a woman meet on a city footbridge.
One of the early landmarks of Belgian colonial urban architecture was the Forescom tower. Built in 1946, it was Leopoldville’s first skyscraper, and one of the first high rise buildings of Central Africa. Pointing toward
The incredible story of Mark Hubbard; A Seattlite who sparked the modern concrete skate park revolution literally from his backyard. The film documents how Mark and his friends started with a dream to build there own pro
In recent years, the Marga Marga Province has witnessed a drastic change in the visual and sound landscape due to urban expansion. Faced with the observation and the need to explore the territory that seems more and more
Filmed in Tripoli, Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is a documentary centred upon the city’s abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the mid-1960s. Progress and cr
The film explores concrete buildings that were politicized before they were constructed, before an architect lent them their particular voice; buildings whose political speech is now being overwritten, rewritten, and era
Image: concrete. Turn the image upside down: nothing more, nothing else, nothing. During the pandemic, drones flying over the empty city became oversaturated. Media coverage fixed our imagination into one way of reading
An essay on an unplanned city, Dhaka, from the point of view of an off-screen architect. Traveling from the loud city to the silence of the village, he meets people, incidents and landscapes. The film is a meditation on
Am I French or Chinese? I wander in my identity questions. I face words from media people with words from the children of the 'second generation', trying to see more clearly. I recall France, my France.
"Life is always concrete!" – says the hero of the film Anatoly Kanashchenkov throughout his life. At any time – socialist, perestroika, after the collapse of the Union – the "red director" Kanashchenkov emerged victoriou