Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream... Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career... View full entry
"The director, Robert Stone, is telling an especially complicated story here, one that's simultaneously about how much the first Earth Day in 1970 really did change everything, and also about how much and how fast that change was undone." "The director, Robert Stone, is telling an especially... View full entry
The German-Lebanese co-production One Man Village tells the story of a man who returns to live as the sole inhabitant of his native Christian village, which was destroyed in the civil war. qantara View full entry
Ecotect Mitchell Joachim (Terreform 1) goes mano a mano with the man himself, the O'Reilly simulation, Stephen Colbert. 11:30PM EST. View full entry
Martin Lang talks about his ideas behind select landscape and scene designs for T4. Or California as a human abattoir. NYT View full entry
New film documents the construction of a green residential building in South Boston through the eyes of the union workers who built it. Interview with the filmmakers and a trailer preview at Dwell. View full entry
Take a one eyed film maker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that's never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence and Kosta Grammatis are trying to make history by embedding a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. That eye is going in... View full entry
In his experimental short film Brutalitaet in Stein (brutality in stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi... View full entry
Screenplay by yours truly... elseplace View full entry
A trio of naked soldiers stride slowly through the sea past a floating corpse toward a Beirut of high-rise buildings luridly lit by orange flares. This hallucinatory image repeats like a leit motif throughout "Waltz with Bashir," an animated documentary by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman about war... View full entry
In 1978 the architect Craig Hodgetts produced a wondrous set of drawings for a Hollywood movie adaptation of the pulp classic, “Ecotopia”. With plenty of savvy and pop-culture sensibility, the script was translated into awe-inspiring architectonic visuals. The drawings were exhibited... View full entry
Filmmaker Diego Quemada-Diez' short film most powerfully narrates a poem with the same title in Kibera, one of Africa's largest slums near Nairobi, Kenya.Website | Watch the film View full entry
Over the weekend, I caught a screening of Burn After Reading, which turned out to be better than the reviews would have you believe. But the biggest surprise was the trailer for The International. Watching the opening scene, you’re probably thinking the same thing I did: The financial... View full entry
Cool video for London's 2012 Olympic Stadium by Squint Opera. Can floating pods, flying seats, and levitating compression rings help London follow up the Bird's Nest? via Anarchitecture View full entry
Completely filmed before 2008’s Beijing Olympics and edited right after its ending, “China According to China” presents a set of thoughts by five local architects on China’s current situation and history. Ai Wei Wei [FAKE design], Jiang Jun [UrbanChina], Yu Kongjian... View full entry
