We Do It for Awá | Show Me the Change: Short Film Program | ByDesign Festival 2022: Cross-Cultural Design Thinking

ByDesign Festival 2022: Cross-Cultural Design Thinking

Show Me the Change: Short Film Program

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How do physical objects and built-environments synchronously shape and reflect the emotional spaces in which we dwell? This collection of shorts, color-coded memories, embodied explorations, and culturally-conscious rearrangements honors the stories of those seeking expression, protection, and connection.

“The change is for good, you say. Show me. Show me the change.” – Moving Barcelona

** Presented by Travessias Brazilian Film Festival in collaboration with the Center for Brazilian Studies at UW. **

Northern Brazil, state of Maranhão. TIBÁ architects build earth houses in indigenous villages as a part of a compensation policy against the impact of an industrial railway which passes next to the territory. Architecture becomes a pretext to talk about the complex situation of the native Brazilian population which faces rapid modernization of its culture and an intensifying invasion from the neighbouring Brazilian villages. The efforts of the Guajajara tribe focus on guarding the forest and ensuring that the last uncontacted Awá tribes can continue their traditional way of life, undisturbed.

Year
2021
Runtime
18 minutes
Language
Portuguese, English
Country
Brazil

Director
Natalia Kobylinska

6 films in package

Meditative and evocative, this experimental short film organizes objects and locations by their exact colour. Writers Charles Demers, Chelene Knight and Shazia Hafiz Ramji take us on a dreamy journey through ROYGBIV, sorting memories into the spectrum.

13 Square Meters

Facing a growing immigration crisis, Berlin developed “Tempohomes,” a new design of refugee camp with an allowance of 13 square meters of space per two people. These new constructions overlooked important and distinct cultural norms among those they would house, but became reference points in a valuable conversation: Is it possible to design mass housing and emergency shelters that consider the concepts of caring and home, allowing room for cultural expression?

Moving Barcelona

One of a series of films that uses experimental dance to honor cities around the world, Moving Barcelona jostles together scenes that express the city’s relationships to progress and beauty as well as its healing scars, all of which synthesize into essential elements of its identity.

Abolishing Prisons One Garden at a Time

Artist jackie sumell’s project The Solitary Gardens develops plots of land the size of solitary confinement cells into garden beds, assigning the beds’ horticultural supervision to a “prisoner” known as a “Solitary Gardener.” Cultivation and nurture gradually cause the garden plot to outgrow its bounds, creating a profound symbolic inversion that speaks to the potential power of prison abolition and transformative justice.

Against shifting backdrops of crumbling architecture, concrete structures, and freeway systems, dancers of Seattle’s Whim W’Him company pay homage to the Alaskan Way Viaduct, which was demolished in 2019, its 65th year.

We Do It for Awá

The Guajajara tribe, indigenous people of what is now Maranhão in Northern Brazil, are beset by industrialization and the “march of progress.” The government’s compensatory plan to build them earthen houses is an important gesture, but cannot repay the increasing challenges the tribe faces in stewarding their land and protecting remaining uncontacted tribes from their same fate.

Virtual tickets are pay-what-you-can, $5–25. Click "Unlock Now" above to select the price you are most comfortable with.

To accommodate evolving public health recommendations regarding COVID-19, ByDesign 2022 will be held both virtually and in-person. VIRTUAL, IN-PERSON, and HYBRID Festival Passes are available here.

How do physical objects and built-environments synchronously shape and reflect the emotional spaces in which we dwell? This collection of shorts, color-coded memories, embodied explorations, and culturally-conscious rearrangements honors the stories of those seeking expression, protection, and connection.

“The change is for good, you say. Show me. Show me the change.” – Moving Barcelona

** Presented by Travessias Brazilian Film Festival in collaboration with the Center for Brazilian Studies at UW. **

Northern Brazil, state of Maranhão. TIBÁ architects build earth houses in indigenous villages as a part of a compensation policy against the impact of an industrial railway which passes next to the territory. Architecture becomes a pretext to talk about the complex situation of the native Brazilian population which faces rapid modernization of its culture and an intensifying invasion from the neighbouring Brazilian villages. The efforts of the Guajajara tribe focus on guarding the forest and ensuring that the last uncontacted Awá tribes can continue their traditional way of life, undisturbed.

Year
2021
Runtime
18 minutes
Language
Portuguese, English
Country
Brazil

Director
Natalia Kobylinska