Focus on Builders and Building

Growth and prosperity lead to extensive construction. While star architects offer their aesthetics and understanding of reality, the construction industry adjusts to economic cycles. However, industry, aesthetics, and understanding of reality are not sufficient. There are many tasks to be addressed between commerce and high-quality architecture.

Architectural perspective is also a societal perspective. There has been a shift in the last two decades. Architecture has evolved from being concerned with what is technically possible, aesthetically new, and creating tourist attractions and landmarks, to becoming a discipline focused on social and environmental sustainability, centered around placing humans at the core.

Several needs must be met, and various strategies are employed to meet demand. Consequently, numerous stakeholders are involved. Some build to improve the world. Some build because they can't resist. Some build out of necessity. The world changes through architecture and will always look different.

Arkitekturfilm Oslo 2019 discusses some of the needs, methods, philosophy, and strategies motivating building activity across various scales.

Danish Boris B. Bertram's Human Shelter takes us around the world to discuss our need for what we call home. Katerina Kliwadenko and Mario Novas' Do More With Less, Anders Eklund's Gaming the Real World, and Niels Bolbrinker & Thomas Tielsch's Bauhaus Spirit delve into the methods and strategies builders employ, while Hans Christian Post's Whose City? looks at the issue within an urban context. Sarah Grohnert's Ever The Land (New Zealand) captures the cultural and political battle over a central building, while French Fanny Tondre's What We Have Made offers an intimate insight into life on a construction site.

The 2019 edition of the festival includes three children's films, screened at Cinemateket on Saturday, February 9th, and Sunday, February 10th. On Saturday, Children's Cinematek invites you to Building Day for Kids. The second floor will be filled with Tito Freys Veitvetske foam building blocks, giant red, blue, and yellow blocks that kids can build with! There will also be drawing tables, Lego, and wooden blocks.

We also have three portrait films about world-renowned architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, and David Chipperfield, screened at ROM on Sunday, February 10th.

With support from: Norwegian Film Institute

For more information, visit: arkitekturfilm.no