The poster of the AFFR 2013 shows an image of an actress in a stage costume, set against a backdrop of cranes and high-rise buildings. A surreal still, taken from the movie Estate. In this film a group of residents are followed within the context of a participation project. The residents are acting in a play about their neighborhood in London, which is in transformation. Estate is one of the films screened at the AFFR symbolizing that one time period is closed while another one opens. It symbolizes the times we live in, times in transformation. Times in which we are very well aware of past and future. There is a lot of vacancy in cities and both the value and the meaning of buildings are in dispute. Movies like Unfinished Italy, Reconversão and Unfinished Spaces focus on the life cycle of a building. The movies are picturing both the phases of newly built projects and underused or reallocated places.
But the time machine also takes us back in time. The film Drop City, for example, takes you to the seventies, when hippies and dropouts set out for their own idealistic society. Drop City was a lively experimental settlement full of dome buildings inspired by Buckminster Fuller. In 1973 it was abandoned and since then it is a ghost town. In total, the AFFR will screen about 100 movies; new films, cult classics, animations and documentaries. There's one thing the films have in common: that's architecture and 'the city'.
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