“ARCHITECTURE LANDMARK” | Rencontres Internationales

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A collection of film-screenings as part of the 'Contemporary Intersects' screening programme of the Rencontres Internationales filmfestival held at Loods6.

PROGRAMME:

Magnus Bärtås, Behzad Khosravi Noori: On Hospitality – Layla Al Attar and Hotel Al Rasheed | Exp. documentary | Digital | colour | 0:18:00 | Sweden | 2024

Magnus Bärtås and Behzad Khosravi Noori bring back from the dead Iraqi artist Layla Al-Attar, who recounts how, at Saddam Hussein’s request, a Swedish company built a luxury hotel in Baghdad for the 1983 summit of the Non- Aligned Movement.

Ivan Markovic: Similar to Ourselves | Video | 4k | colour | 0:12:20 | Serbia | 2023

In Belgrade, Ivan Markovic films Energoprojekt, a former Yugoslav construction company. On the wall, photographs of construction in non-aligned countries from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s. In Africa, South America, the Middle East and South Asia, these modernist constructions formed an independent post- colonial architectural identity, transcending the polarity of the Eastern and Western blocs.

Jasmina Cibic: Beacons | Exp. documentary | 4k | colour | 0:23:00 | Slovenia, United Kingdom, Serbia, Bosnia | 2023

Jasmina Cibic portrays women who, in a musical score, repeat the speeches made at the first conference of cultural workers from the countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, held in Titograd, Yugoslavia, in 1985. Academics, artists, curators and politicians exchanged strategies for achieving cultural independence, spiritual decolonisation, open-mindedness and the emancipation of developing non-aligned countries.

Joyce Joumaa: To Remain in the No Longer | Exp. documentary | 16mm | colour | 0:37:00 | Canada | 2023

Joyce Joumaa examines the site of the Tripoli International Fair, commissioned from Oscar Niemeyer in 1962 and never completed. These modernist structures, threatened with collapse, tell the story of a promised metropolis that never saw the light of day.