ByDesign [Online] 2020 – Niemeyer 4 Ever w/ Frame + Astana, City of the Future?
This event took place on Mar 21, 2020
Sliding scale admission: $0–25
Please pay what you can; proceeds support our move to a virtual platform!
Showtime listed is Pacific Standard Time.
ByDesign Festival 2020 is STREAMING ONLINE! Northwest Film Forum’s physical space is temporarily closed in light of public health concerns around COVID-19, but community, dialogue, and education through media arts WILL persist.
• • HOW TO WATCH • •
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Nicolas Khoury
Lebanon
2018
30m
Festival -
ByDesign [Online] Festival 2020
About
** Co-presented with Velocity Dance Center **
Tripoli, Lebanon, in the 1960s was a hotbed for art and intellectuals, poised to become the gateway for modern thinkers to all the Middle East. World-famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer came to build the springboard: an international fairgrounds in the most spectacular modern design. However, as the project neared completion, civil war halted construction indefinitely. Today, Tripoli is a shell of its former, boisterous self and the near-completed fairgrounds seem only a remnant of the past. However, for the city’s people, the fairgrounds are still alight with hope and a sense of identity. Could there still be spring enough in them to launch Tripoli back to its former glory?
Frame
About Joy Dayaw
Astana, City of the Future?
(Laurier Fourniau, France, 2019, 28 min)
Kazakhstan’s rapidly-expanding capital city is rife with innovation and futuristic design, as prescribed by the government. As historically nomadic people, the Kazakhs are hesitant to adopt the rigidity of city living, especially considering their recent memories of Soviet urban design. Many citizens from around the country come to work in Astana, but few call this city-in-scaffolding their home. The government can sculpt a skyline, but can it cultivate a national identity through architecture?
About Laurier Fourniau
Laurier Fourniau is a young French director of both fiction and documentary films. He has been traveling since childhood and lived abroad in countries as diverse as Uzbekistan, Turkey, and the USA, where he did an exchange program at UCLA. After finishing a prestigious program in literature and philosophy in Bordeaux, he received a Masters degree in writing/directing from La Sorbonne. Passionate about many creative fields, he pursued his studies in editing and cinematography at INSAS film school in Brussels, in addition to his work in music and photography.
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