Living Environments / short films about modernist environments curated by Heidrun Holzfeind

The selected films focus on modern living environments. Looking at the exterior and into the interior of modernist architecture, the works also address the buildings’ social functions and socio-utopian ideas.

LIVING ENVIRONMENTS, CCA, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (May 15, 2010)
Ursula Mayer, Interiors, 3 min, 2006
Lotte Schreiber, Quadro, 10 min, 2002
Solmaz Shahbazi, Persepolis, 17 min, 2005
Heidrun Holzfeind, Corviale, il serpentone, 34 min, 2001
Domenec, Unite Mobile (roads are also places) 9 min, 2005
Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, Living Megastructures, 23 min, 2003/04

LIVING ENVIRONMENTS II, The Thing @ White Slab Palace, New York (November 8, 2010)
Ursula Mayer, Interiors, 3 min, 2006
Josef Dabernig, Rosa coeli, 24 min, 2003
Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, Border=0, 1:44 min, 1998
Sasha Pirker, The Future will not be Capitalist, 19 min, 2010
Lotte Schreiber, Quadro, 10 min, 2002
Josef Dabernig, Wisla, 8 min, 1996
Harald Hund, All People Is Plastic, 12 min, 2005

LIVING ENVIRONMENTS III, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (March 21, 2012)
Ursula Mayer, Interiors, 3 min, 2006
Mark Lewis, Isoceles, 3 min, 2007
Lotte Schreiber, Quadro, 10 min, 2002
Mark Lewis, Children's Games, Heygate Estate, 7 min, 2002
Sasha Pirker, The Future will not be Capitalist, 19 min, 2010
Mark Lewis, North Circular, 4 min, 2000
Heidrun Holzfeind, Corviale, il serpentone, 34 min, 2001

LIVING ENVIRONMENTS IV, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (May 21, 2015)
Volker Koepp, Wir haben schon einen ganze Stadt gebaut, 5 min. 1968
Mark Lewis, Children's Games, Heygate Estate, 7 min, 2002
Lotte Schreiber, Quadro, 10 min, 2002
Cyprien Gaillard, The Lake Arches, 1:43 min, 2007
Sasha Pirker, The Future will not be Capitalist, 19 min, 2010
Korpys/Löffler, World Trade Center, 6:39 min, 1997
Dorit Margreiter, 10104 Angelo View Drive, 6 min, 2008
Ursula Mayer, Interiors, 3 min, 2006


images top: left: Children's Games, Heygate Estate / Mark Lewis; middle: The Future Will Not Be Capitalist / Sasha Pirker; right: Interiors / Ursula Mayer
images bottom: left: North Circular / Mark Lewis; middle: Quadro / Lotte Schreiber; right: Corviale / Heidrun Holzfeind