13 January
A documentary about the iconic, controversial, yet all-but forgotten Brazilian architect, Sergio Bernardes (1919 - 2002) – a Modernist playboy turned radical futurist, whose life and work presents an incredible story of architecture, family, history and politics. Introduced by Pedro Campos Costa.
18 November
exhibitions
10 December
Rigorously formal, yet humorous and full of life, James Benning’s masterwork of avant-garde filmmaking surveys the industrial landscape of his native Milwaukee. 27 years later, Benning revisited the same sites to make an updated version of ‘the same film’.
19 November
A pair of films exploring the meeting of dreams with globalised realities, amidst allegorical stage sets of architectural facsimiles. Jia Zhangke creates a human-centered chronicle of the lure of both capital and capitals, set in a Beijing theme park of global architectural icons. Artist Sean Snyder’s short explores geo-political exchange via a Romanian oligarch’s Balkan re-creation of the ranch from US TV show Dallas.