They are raising $30,000 dollars to complete the feature length documentary film 'REM' which is currently in production. So far they have been making the film entirely using grant money raised from 'The creative industries fund' in Holland. Now, they need the additional money to finish their two final shoots and to complete the post-production process.
As you may know the film is nearing completion. We are about to enter the post-production phase of the film. We need to raise additional funds to complete that process. If we raised that money from mainstream sources we would be forced to compromise the originality of our concept. We don't think the world needs another generic architecture documentary and we are working hard to bring you something very new and different. Please help us do that by sharing the kickstarter link, and by donating. Just to give you some perspective on the amount we are raising, if everyone who liked this page donated $12 we would reach our goal instantly. Thank you all very much.
Tomas Koolhaas.
Funding periodDec 2, 2013 - Jan 1, 2014 (30 days)
Tomas Koolhaas explains concept video.- Most architectural documentaries explore only the intellectual reasoning behind the aesthetic/design choices made by an architect. These films are usually made up of talking-head interviews interspersed with static, lifeless shots of empty structures.
'REM' is the first documentary to comprehensively explore the human conditions in and around Rem Koolhaas's buildings from a ground level perspective. The film not only reveals Rem's life and working methods from an unprecedented 'behind the scenes' perspective but the film gives the architecture greater meaning as the viewer witnesses the one thing that gives it a function and purpose - how it is used by people. The resulting film is not only visually spectacular but revealing and touching in a way not usually expected from an architecture documentary. The stories incorporated are not only that of Rem and his collaborators who work tirelessly all over the globe on projects that push the boundaries of imagination and engineering but the construction workers who physically put these structures together piece by piece, the inhabitants of the buildings who live every day surrounded by this dramatic architecture, a homeless man who shelters daily in the Seattle library and describes the building's free internet and access to musical instruments as a "lifeline" that "gives him hope for the future," a free-runner (aka parkour) who uses the ambiguous surfaces of the Porto Concert Hall interchangeably; running across and flipping off wall, ceiling and floor alike.
