Moving Barcelona (Short Film)
Moving Barcelona is a magical realist dance story about this Catalonian capital, an autonomous region in Spain contending with an identity crisis. A beautiful and bustling city, Barcelona is haunted by ghosts of its past, and despite much progress, still finds itself unearthing old wounds. Barcelonians, in pursuit of happiness, find themselves on a treadmill in a tale of modern day life. Narrated by celebrated actor, Pep Munné, there is a sense of reassurance that all is okay and inevitably, things are the way they are.
Moving Barcelona is the eighth film in an award-winning collection of works by the London-based filmmaker, Jevan Chowdhury to capture the world as a stage. Life on the street in London, Paris, Brussels, Dallas, Prague, Yerevan and Athens have all been recorded in this growing canon.
Director
Jevan Chowdhury
.
Inside Prora (Feature Film)
Prora, the longest building in the world, has been referred to as the ‘Monster by the Sea’ and the ‘Colossus of Prora’. Commissioned by Hitler prior to WWII, it was originally conceived as a three-mile long vacation camp with 10,000 seaside-facing rooms on the island of Rügen. Instead, when Germany instigated WWII, it was converted to military barracks, then became an abandoned site for many years following reunification. Now, hotels, museums and holiday homes are springing up. Capitalism rules!
Inside Prora tells more than the transformation of this gigantic labyrinth. It’s an unfolding of historic layers; unexpected connections of society with modernist architecture; the phenomenon of mass tourism. The film takes us on a journey through time and space – and yet, always travels back to Prora.
- Year2019
- Runtime100 minutes
- CountryGermany
- DirectorNico Weber
Moving Barcelona (Short Film)
Moving Barcelona is a magical realist dance story about this Catalonian capital, an autonomous region in Spain contending with an identity crisis. A beautiful and bustling city, Barcelona is haunted by ghosts of its past, and despite much progress, still finds itself unearthing old wounds. Barcelonians, in pursuit of happiness, find themselves on a treadmill in a tale of modern day life. Narrated by celebrated actor, Pep Munné, there is a sense of reassurance that all is okay and inevitably, things are the way they are.
Moving Barcelona is the eighth film in an award-winning collection of works by the London-based filmmaker, Jevan Chowdhury to capture the world as a stage. Life on the street in London, Paris, Brussels, Dallas, Prague, Yerevan and Athens have all been recorded in this growing canon.
Director
Jevan Chowdhury
.
Inside Prora (Feature Film)
Prora, the longest building in the world, has been referred to as the ‘Monster by the Sea’ and the ‘Colossus of Prora’. Commissioned by Hitler prior to WWII, it was originally conceived as a three-mile long vacation camp with 10,000 seaside-facing rooms on the island of Rügen. Instead, when Germany instigated WWII, it was converted to military barracks, then became an abandoned site for many years following reunification. Now, hotels, museums and holiday homes are springing up. Capitalism rules!
Inside Prora tells more than the transformation of this gigantic labyrinth. It’s an unfolding of historic layers; unexpected connections of society with modernist architecture; the phenomenon of mass tourism. The film takes us on a journey through time and space – and yet, always travels back to Prora.
- Year2019
- Runtime100 minutes
- CountryGermany
- DirectorNico Weber