This year's architecture film festival is about aesthetics, aesthetics in the human-made environment, with a focus on the last century. A turning point in a world that no longer has only one direction. Where the idea of time and space as a ticking clockwork must yield to Einstein's theory of relativity, and where the perception of time and space becomes relative. From now on, everything is determined by the observer and their location. There is no longer just one truth. It becomes impossible to claim that only one reference point is valid. The understanding of life and art becomes subjective from now on. The world has changed. 

This new worldview also applies to art. Modernist art is like a persistent attack on the center point. The perspective is individualized and takes on new meaning: Your viewpoint is just as valid as everyone else's. Everything is relative, and all expressions are equally valid. 

This worldview soon encounters strong totalitarian counterforces, most notably marked in the architecture of Nazism and Stalinism, where it becomes clear that aesthetics are a weapon for power. 

This year's festival program includes titles that show the diversity in the understanding of the world and art, with films like 'Manifesto' by Julian Rosefeldt and 'Samsara' by Ron Fricke, as well as titles that document and analyze the counterreaction from the totalitarian ideologies that saw the relative and modernist worldview as an obstacle to their propaganda, with films like 'Architecture of Doom' by Peter Cohen, 'Built to Last' by Haruna Honcoop, and 'The Destruction of Memory' by Tim Slade. The program also includes titles that emphasize the power of subjective aesthetics in 'Starchitects' like REM, the documentary about Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, and 'BIG TIME' about Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.

With support from: Norsk filminstitutt.