#documentary – Urban Issues

Documentary: Paris MegaCities ShortDocs Citizen Film Festival

July 27, 2017March 16, 2018Posted in Urban IssuesTagged #architecture, #art, #branded housing, #building boom, #capitalism, #cities, #city, #commodification, #condo, #daily life, #documentary, #housing, #inequality, #neoliberal urban space, #Paris, #segregation, #urban development, #urban space, megacitiesLeave a comment

Short Documentaries filmed by Citizens to Show Existing Solutions and Inspire New Initiatives?

Megacities of the world present lots of opportunities, but are also full of challenges.

So we need your help to bring to light, through the lense of your documentary, local inspiring solutions that have been implemented by a person or a community, near your home that have met those challenges head on. Through your story you could potentially change the lives of a friend, a neighbor, a family in another Megacity.

Your short documentary will change the world. (megacities-shortdocs.org)

KEDi – @ Sheffield Doc Fest

June 11, 2016June 12, 2016Posted in Urban IssuesTagged #cat, #cities, #daily life, #documentary, #photography, #public space, #Turkey, #urban space, #İstanbulLeave a comment

“a documentary about what it’s like to be a Cat in Istanbul”

KEDi is not a documentary about house cats or the strays you occasionally see in your back yard. KEDi is a film about the hundreds of thousands of cats who have roamed the metropolis of Istanbul freely for thousands of years, wandering in and out of people’s lives, impacting them in ways only an animal who lives between the worlds of the wild and the tamed can. Cats and their kittens bring joy and purpose to those they choose, giving people an opportunity to reflect on life and their place in it. In Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to ourselves.

This week screening @ Sheffield Doc Fest if you happen to be around!

Taking Our Streets Back: Stripping Them of the Advertisements?

February 5, 2016April 6, 2017Posted in Commodification of Urban Space, Quotes, Urban IssuesTagged #advertising, #bansky, #branding, #capitalism, #cities, #city, #commodification, #daily life, #documentary, #housing, #inequality, #neoliberal urban space, #photography, #public space, #right to the city, #segregation, #urban development, #urban space, Artworks, CommodityLeave a comment

Comic by Gavin Aung Than

They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you, now it is time to take it back…

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.” -BANSKY

What a Bloody Screw-up: Venice Syndrome

February 3, 2016February 11, 2017Posted in Commodification of Urban SpaceTagged #architecture, #art, #documentary, #housing, #inequality, #italy, #nature, #neoliberal urban space, #photography, #public space, #right to the city, #urban development, #urban space, #urbanism, Commodity, veniceLeave a comment

Venice Syndrome brilliantly tells the story of a city turning to be a museum and loosing its soul by loosing its citizens.

What a Bloody Screw-up: Venice Syndrome

Director: Andreas Pichler
Release: 2012 (imdb)

From the synopsis:

Twenty million foreigners visited the city last year. That’s an average of 60,000 day. And this year it will be more still. By comparison, there are only 58,000 inhabitants, the same amount as they were after the Great Plague of 1438. And next year it will be fewer still.
For the city is becoming uninhabitable. Venice’s own urban life has almost collapsed; it scarcely still exists.

The film shows what remains of Venetian life: a subculture of tourist service industries; a port for monstrous cruisers which is waiting to be expanded; Venetians who are moving to the mainland as there are no longer affordable apartments to be found; an aged noblewoman who treats the municipal council with scorn; a realtor who is considering abandoning the sinking ship.

A Requiem for a still grand city.
An illustration of how common property becomes the prey of few.
An elegy to the last Venetians, their humour and their hearts. (venicesyndrome.com)

Documentary: “My Mother’s Interior Design”-“Annemin Estetik Anlayisi”

January 31, 2016March 16, 2018Posted in Urban IssuesTagged #architecture, #documentary, #lacework, #photography, ProjectsLeave a comment

This short documentary brilliantly shows interior of a traditional Turkish home. It is mostly about the lacework which the mother is a fan but the children are not so much 🙂

Documentary- 2012
Producer: Hatice Çağlar – Monroe Creative Studios
Director: Şükrü Özçelik

Enjoy 🙂

Ponte Tower

June 3, 2014June 9, 2014Posted in Urban IssuesTagged #architecture, #documentary, #jbourgLeave a comment

A short documentary on Ponte Tower, Johannesburg by Philip Bloom.

Views of residents of this horrific building, can be an example of failed architecture.