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Architecture Foundation Film Series Continues With In The Pit
7.30.09 | London, UK | The Architecture Foundation presents a Mexican Road Movie, In The Pit (En El Hoyo). The bi-monthly series of film screenings at the Barbican Centre takes a
lateral look at architecture and the city, as represented and discussed
across documentary, video art and the movies. In the Pit will be viewed on Monday, September 28, 6:30 pm.
Winner of Best International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, In The Pit is not a road movie in the traditional sense. Instead this intimate and affecting films looks at the construction crew building Mexico City's Periferico Freeway, charting the social reality at the core of over ten miles of soaring reinforced concrete. Through objectively compassionate portraits of a miscellany of characters such as the wolf-whistling El Voyeur and the brusquely realist mason El Grande, the film charts the coarse life and camaraderie of the workers involved in the creation of a huge slab of the city, both floating in the air and submerged in the pit. The private life of urban infrastructure envisioned through a uniquely personal take on direct cinema, full of humour and grace.
Tickets: £7.50 online (£9.50 full price) AF Members £6.50 online (£7.50 full price) Concessions =A37.50
Online: www.barbican.org.uk/film Telephone (9am - 8pm): 020 7638 8891
Venue: Screen 2, The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS.
About The Architecture Foundation
The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture. We cultivate new talent and new ideas. Through our diverse programmes we facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate critical engagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape the quality of the built environment. We are independent, agile, inclusive and influential. Central to our activities is the belief that architecture enriches lives.
www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
Winner of Best International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, In The Pit is not a road movie in the traditional sense. Instead this intimate and affecting films looks at the construction crew building Mexico City's Periferico Freeway, charting the social reality at the core of over ten miles of soaring reinforced concrete. Through objectively compassionate portraits of a miscellany of characters such as the wolf-whistling El Voyeur and the brusquely realist mason El Grande, the film charts the coarse life and camaraderie of the workers involved in the creation of a huge slab of the city, both floating in the air and submerged in the pit. The private life of urban infrastructure envisioned through a uniquely personal take on direct cinema, full of humour and grace.
Tickets: £7.50 online (£9.50 full price) AF Members £6.50 online (£7.50 full price) Concessions =A37.50
Online: www.barbican.org.uk/film Telephone (9am - 8pm): 020 7638 8891
Venue: Screen 2, The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS.
About The Architecture Foundation
The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture. We cultivate new talent and new ideas. Through our diverse programmes we facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate critical engagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape the quality of the built environment. We are independent, agile, inclusive and influential. Central to our activities is the belief that architecture enriches lives.
www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
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