Underskog

To mark the closing week of the spring program Space Station: On Enabling, Production and Display, 0047 in collaboration with PNEK will be hosting a dual film screening.

These films offer a discourse reflective of the Space Station thematic – expanding the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through collaborations or insertions with and within other fields.

City of Progress
Justin Bennett, UK/NL, 2009, 11 min

This animated film traces the growth of an imaginary city as it expands from a single dot into a proliferation of lines and geometric forms, representing the physical development of a city. Organic urban growth is soon curbed by laws and regulations, reshaped by project developers or armed conflicts. The creative act of drawing, as well as that of founding a city, is put under the magnifying glass – resulting in a reflection on the in- exorable expansion of our urban areas. City of Progress embodies our quest for utopia, while attesting to the difficulty of attaining it.

Triptiek – Images of a Kingdom
Paul van den Wildenberg & Jan Ketelaars, NL, 2011, 59 min

In the form of a triptych, three places in three different regions of the Netherlands are associated with each other. In their appearance and the way they are used these newly designed and built environments reflect the efforts of people in contemporary culture. The three selected places include the known spectrum of living, working, relaxing. Each site has an extreme, monomaniac character focusing on one of these specific activities. This brings a kind of absurdity to light and a downside of the endeavor.

Ketelaars and Wildenberg have worked together for a long time. Their focus is on the unusual of the usual and the transience of human efforts.