Architecture
Set across cityscapes and in apartment buildings, hotels, and museums, this collection of films explores the ways that people define — and are defined by — the changing spaces around them.
Bad Living Mal Viver
The first in a pair of intricately interconnected films, five women struggle to keep their decaying family hotel afloat.
Black Box
A Berlin apartment building is placed under lockdown, igniting social, cultural, and familial tensions in this intoxicating potboiler.
Closing Dynasty [short film]
A day in the life of a streetwise kid named Queenie as she navigates her own path through New York City.
Depot – Reflecting Boijmans
This playful documentary chronicles the construction of the Depot, a shimmering open-concept space in Rotterdam that reimagines the possibilities for art storage and exhibition.
The Great Arc [short film] La Grande Arch
An artist explores, observes, and draws scenes of La Défense, a neighborhood west of Paris whose large-scale public artworks constitute the largest open-air museum in Europe.
Is My Living In Vain [short film]
The Black church is explored as a site of personal and political belonging through portraits of communities across west Philadelphia and southeast London.
Living Bad Viver Mal
The events of companion film Bad Living are seen through the eyes of the hotel’s guests, who are juggling problems of their own.
Pictures of Ghosts Retratos fantasmas
From acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho comes an incisive and whimsical essay film about movies, memory, and the places of one’s past.
Shorts 8: Architecture – Versions of Home
In celebration of this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, this program tracks how we establish strong connections to a place, and the complications of staying in it.
Three Windows on South West [short film]
Former residents remember happier times in a beloved apartment.
212 W Van Buren St., Suite 400
