What is Auroville?
The film looks at how the utopian ideals of Auroville, an intentional community founded in 1968 in India by French philosopher Mira Alfas, are lived today, almost 50 years later.
Forms in Relation to Life
In the 1920s, the Werkbund architectural association stood for a new kind of functional design, sober and unadorned, but meeting residential needs.
Colonnade Park
Colonnade Park, the last part of a documentary trilogy about modernist residential buildings inspecting Rome (Corviale, Il Serpentone, 2001) and Warsaw (Behind the Iron Gate, 2009), allows the director Heidrun Holzfeind…
Behind the Iron Gate
The film portrays everyday life in the communist era housing estate Za Zelazna Brama (‘Behind the Iron Gate’). The housing estate was built by a team of architects between 1965-1972 in the center of Warsaw on the ruins…