Parklet Movie Night: Citizen Solutions for Urban Problems | SF
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Swissnex | Pier 17, The Embarcadero #800, San Francisco, CA 94111
Event Details
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2019 Architecture & the City Festival | SF
The 16th annual month-long celebration features behind the scenes and walking tours, films, exhibitions, lectures and more that address varying aspects of the design and planning process.
This years festival theme, “We the City”, aims to explore how cultural diversity and connectivity inspire and inform the built environment. From the Dogpatch to the Outer Sunset — San Francisco is a unique, diverse, and multi-generational mosaic.
Enjoy international short films outside on the swissnex parklet in this collaboration with SF Urban Film Fest and the Architecture and the City festival.
Free, but an RSVP is required.
Screenings
The Kiosk (7 minutes) – Olga is a cheerful woman who works at a kiosk. She knows the wishes and problems of her customers well and attends to their every need, but she often dreams of being far away.
Torre David (22 minutes) – 750 families on 45 levels live and work (informally) in an unfinished building called Torre David (Caracas, Venezuela) planned as an office tower but stopped shortly before completion in 1993. Urban-Think Tank and Justin McGuirk won the Golden Lion at the 2012 Venice Biennale for their provocative installation responding to the Torre David and telling its story – research that would also give form to a celebrated publication. This is the cinematic version of UTT’s ongoing research on this widely debated tower and the story of Torre David.
De Pijp (10 minutes) – Kids of the Netherlands take back the streets. This TV documentary shows the Amsterdam neighborhood ‘De Pijp’ which suffers from overcrowding and under planning, as told from a child’s perspective.
La Nuit de L’ours (22 minutes) – In a city of disconcerting nature, homeless animals are looking for shelter for the night. They take refuge in the Bear’s house, creating an ephemeral community that will dissolve with the first rays of sun.
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Cost: FREE*
