This program focuses on architecture, cities, and elements of the built environment that are transient, immortalized, or have been willfully forgotten, exploring the cultures and geographies that built them and the psychology and oppression embedded within.

Introduced in person by Theodossios Issaias, associate curator, Heinz Architectural Center.

Program:

Run time: 3 hours. There will be a 10 min. intermission about 1 hour and 41 minutes into the program.
^* Looped in the Art Theater prior to screening
^† Part of Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection

Notes from guest film programmer, Astria Suparak

Let me direct your attention to the background, to the smoggy skyline, to decorative flourishes on residential facades, and to business signage designed to be illegible to a target audience. The films in this program focus on architecture, cities, and elements of the built environment transient, immortalized, or willfully forgotten.

Buildings, both ostentatious and banal, can transcend space and time through scripting and art direction. Cities are passed off as other cities, sometimes in other countries. Architecture not only reflects the culture, geography, and class that delivered it, but it can also insinuate morality, psychology, and oppression. Are these utopias, dystopias, or both?

Registration

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