By 2050 the world will reach 10 billion people , 70 precent of which will live in the large cities. Israel, a small and already dense country, is projected to go through an even more drastic
transformation by then. Even before the pandemic, concern of this future had already existed. The tech revolution allowed people to leave the office, and The City, behind. It allowed them
to piece themselves together anywhere in the world, nomadically.
What is the threshold that separates the countryside from the city, what is its future, and do we really have a choice?

RODAS is an audiovisual project reflecting on the contemporary meaning of cohabitation. Poetics of the domestic formed with humor, magic and irony, articulating different moments of everyday life in a contemporary urban context.

Casa Rodas, projected by CIOestudio, is adaptable and progressive, capable of accommodating a great variety of uses with small variations, different ways of living and co-living. As a shared house the relationship between the public and private is central to the organization of the space. The shifting limit where the two meet reflects the relationship between its users.

“Vertical Shadow” is a visual journey through the intimacy of migrant residents of a mega-building in Santiago. The pandemic forces them to spend their days locked in 17 square meters with 1.500 people.

Inspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, “Esterno giorno” is an experimental love letter to Italian cinema.
Following in the footsteps of the characters played by Monica Vitti, the film retraces the geography of Antonioni’s vision, pushing the boundaries between subject and landscape, fiction and reality.
From the metaphysical squares of Rome’s EUR district to the smokestacks of industrial Ravenna, from the red desert of Wadi Rum to the pink granite cliffs surrounding La Cupola—the futuristic house in Sardinia designed by the avant-garde architect Dante Bini in the 1960s for Antonioni and Vitti, then real-life partners—, the physical spaces explored by the camera become psychological landscapes, states of mind, atmospheres.
The filmmaker poetically intertwines contemporary footage shot in Italy and Jordan with archival materials and excerpts from “Eclipse” (1962) and “Red Desert” (1964), creating an illusion of continuity between past and present.

In collaboration with Archivio Michelangelo Antonioni.

Situated in the suburbs of Den Bosch, the Netherlands, Engelen 23 augustus explores the felt implications of postmodern urban design. Is it desirable to design places which are highly functional, comfortable, stylised, controlled and isolated? Does this urban landscape mirror who we are? Inspired by 'Spheres' of Peter Sloterdijk.

Duration: 00:14:00 By André Schreuders

Treehouse purissimo: Removed from everyday life, the residents of Villa Froeschle move around in a green natural space on the upper floor - here, a quiet, loft-like living space spans over 20 meters in depth. As a central and connecting element, a 15-metre-long window facing the treetops runs through the open-plan room. The awareness of life in the centre of the villa resembles that of a modern treehouse. A sensitive mix of materials, different surfaces and a differentiated feel create a feel-good atmosphere inside the building. The architecture and the entire interior design were coordinated and designed by Anna Philipp.

Duration: 00:08:24 By Josua Graf

"As the first time" is an authorial record that tells a story of time, space and photography. The film walks the line between black and white, analog and digital, presence and remote.

By embracing the casualness and spontaneity of a conversation, some cameras and an analog voice recorder, we bring an innocent look at the individual and at the space. A character lends his subjectivity to record, in voice and vision, a monologue about shapes, colors and sensations in photography.

A narrated daydream brought to life a rehearsal of a visual, individual, abstract expression about the contrasts that involve us in this atmosphere.

Nexum questions how we as individuals are psychologically relying on our inhabit spaces and how we as society are influencing and being influenced by our surroundings. The plot follows the everyday displacements of the protagonist through different urban, public and private spaces, and her way of interaction and exchange with them. A second parallel layer shows in a fictional way the impact of the different realms in the protagonists affective sensation, reflecting on how the interaction within diverse environments generate different psychological behaviours.

Duration: 00:05:00 By Flavia Mazzanti

“Villas Pesqueras” is a short documentary film that gives voice to a historically marginalized community. The film narrates the stories and struggles of the fishers from three traditional fishing villages around the island of Puerto Rico. The film is composed of three fragments, each one corresponding to a ‘Villa Pesquera’: the Villas of Puerto Real in Cabo Rojo, La Parguera in Lajas, and Las Croabas in Fajardo. Throughout the sequence, the split-screen is implemented to contrapose the cultural activity and spatial qualities of these places during the 1940s and 1950s found in Puerto Rican archival films, research excerpts, and shots taken of the current state of these places. Each fragment is narrated through the voices of the fishers interviewed, in which they highlight the importance of these spaces, their culture, and concerns with the legislation and climate change.

This film was written and produced as part of the research and theoretical arguments developed for the author’s Masters in Architecture dissertation titled “Villas Pesqueras of Puerto Rico: Documenting the coastal culture from the architectural discourse”, which argues that ‘Villas Pesqueras’ and fishers are vital elements for the identity and coastal culture of the island. Still, these communities are vulnerable to displacement due to current legislation policies and the effects of climate change. In this way, “Villas Pesqueras” makes visible the stories of local communities while proclaiming how these spaces have been ignored and part of our coastal culture is at risk of disappearing.

Duration: 00:09:50 By Claudia Crespo

Welbeck Street car park is a brutalist icon. A true one of a kind structure famous for its diamond-patterned facade. Despite this, the local council sold off the building in 2017 to make way for a luxury hotel. Demolition is now imminent.

Duration: 00:02:58 By Joe Gilbert

The Despot's Palace is the most emblematic monument of the castle-city of Mystras and one of the very few Byzantine palatial complexes to survive to this day - the only one to be found in Greece. Apart from its outstanding value from an architectural point of view, is bears witness to the historical and cultural processes that created it, during the last centuries of a politically declining but culturally flourishing Byzantine Empire.

The majestic complex was the seat of the administration of the Despotate for more than a century, from the late 14th century to the mid-15th century, hosting within its premises a bustling society and various public and private functions. The Emperors and members of the imperial family, arriving from the capital of the empire, the Despots and their consorts- either Byzantine or Western European princesses- but also members of the local or expatriate aristocracy, coexist with bureaucrats and public officials, clergymen, soldiers, scholars, artists and auxiliary staff, in a strictly defined hierarchy, forming a "court" that emulates that of Constantinople.

The project "Enhancement - Exhibition Tour" of the Despot's Palace has a human-centered approach and focuses on the people of the palace, seeking the traces of their presence. A path is therefore created around a basic narrative axis, through which visitors become the protagonists of the story, "watch" the marks of the people who lived there, follow their footsteps in the Despot’s apartments and immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the time.

​The short film follows a similar narrative course. Through a one-take shot, the spectator crosses the spaces of the palace and watches people of the time in successive roles. From the lower apartments, the cook and then the maid move upstairs, where the mistresses live. The narrative course culminates, as the "queen" of Myzithras enters the throne hall, to finally reveal that she is a visitor, who, traveling back in time, identifies herself with the people of the time. The aim of the film is to use a cinematic language in order to give life to the Despot's Palace of the Archaeological site of Mystras for a few minutes and to prepare the viewer for the digital exhibition that will be hosted inside the monument.

Duration: 00:05:00 By Ifigenia Dimitriou

Six queer people share a walk in the city. They don't know each other but through their experience, we get to know the different spaces that the route connects. It is 4.6 km long and passes by the center of Brussels where a theater, a church, a gay street, and a park are located.

Duration: 00:13:15 By Alexander Auris