CONCRETE FORMS OF RESISTANCE
United Kingdom | 2019 | cor | 25 min
Filmed in Tripoli, Lebanon, this documentary is centred upon the city's abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’, designed by Oscar Niemeyer. Layered themes of progress and crisis, material and memory, contrast the utopian vision of the original plans with the realities of religious conflict, regional instability and economic inequalities. Read the review about this film written in the Critical Short project: https://bityli.com/TzMhK
Director: Nick Jordan
Producer: Nick Jordan
Cinematographer: Nick Jordan
Soundtrack: David Chatton Barker, Sam McLoughlin
Sound Designer: Nick Jordan
Editor: Nick Jordan
Sales Agent: Nick Jordan
Contact: Nick Jordan - nick@nickjordan.info
PROGRAMS:
Unlimited Showcase > Limit 1 - Brutalism
In this selection, humanism and brutality clash. In the wild, in the stone jungle, in sterile technology, the structure imposes itself on life. Read the review about this film written in the Critical Short project: https://bityli.com/URUFY
