This March the
Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center
(KÉK) is organizing the
6th Budapest Architecture Film Days
. Do you live in a building? Do you like movies? Then feel free to join the festival -
film screenings, concerts, special exhibitions
and
workshops
!
The Film Days’ opening film on
6 March
will be
16 Acres
showing the twists and turns of
reconstruction of Ground Zero
in New York, after screening the
Chief Architect of Budapest will stand behind the DJ booth
.
Those interested in the
built environment
will have the chance to see films on the following days focusing on
different fields of architecture
,
design and urbanism
from unusual perspectives. Besides the
dilemmas of architecture
and
city planning
, the festival will bring up subjects such as
old and new media of architecture
,
architectural photography
,
3D printing
,
unequalities of city development in the 21st century
,
unsustainable development strategies
and tourism,
unusual communities
, the reminiscence of modern architecture, the
future of avant-garde buildings
.
As usually, all this is told through deep and exciting, often tragic or inspirational
human stories
, that make the visiting of the festival worthwhile. The screenings will be followed by
discussions with invited filmmakers
, so that audience could engage with the films’ subject and get a creative insight into the making of the films.
The Film Days’ programs are
not limited to the cinemas’s screening rooms
this year either: in the
lobby
the works of
three architectural photographers
– Zsolt Batár, Tamás Bujnovszky and Illés Sarkantyú – are presented as part of the exhibition
Under Construction
. Following the success of last year’s event, Film Days offer a variety of programs in the city:
the downtown movie walk
brings the relation of films and the city closer,
Rögtön Jövök Gallery
in Kossuth Lajos Street will screen a
selection of short films
for two days.
Detailed programme can be seen:
here
, and you can check the ticket prices:
here
.
