Film programme YOU CANNOT IMAGINE NOTHING at IABR/AFFR

At the invitation of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), curators-filmmakers Ingel Vaikla and Julie Pfleiderer have curated a film programme for Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) which puts the emphasis on the potential of architecture, through the themes of cultural heritage, nature and land. After the films there will be a panel moderated by Saskia van Stein with author Véronique Patteeuw and filmmaker Jacques Perconte.

In parallel to this years’ overarching theme It’s About Time, the IABR looks at the role of time as an important ingredient to design for an architecture of change. With the influence of climate change on our doorstep, how could one reimagine the intrinsic relationships between present and the past, between local and global and between humans and other beings as well as ecosystems?

The selected films promote nuance and gesture of space over paternalistic attitudes of classification and domination, towards the rebuilding of community, rewriting unjust histories, a dialogue with nature and more than human species in order to further explore ways of living together towards desirable futures.