Architecture documentaries

Started by Strömkarlen, March 08, 2010, 02:31:47 PM

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Litharge

A while back I discovered this website:

http://www.greatbuildings.com/

I haven't had the change to look thru the site in depth yet, but in recent years I've developed a deeper curiosity about, and appreciation for architecture, and so this website seems like a useful primer on the basic styles/schools, and specific examples of structures representing each style.

Cementimental

Jonathan Meades' programmes are pretty interesting/funny/sarcastic.

Guess some of you guys might like his one about Nazi architecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagoBzZT1q8


online prowler

Thom Andersen's

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)




Los Angeles, myth, architecture and cinema.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATvOyAdrDB0




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Strömkarlen

Quote from: Cementimental on May 06, 2011, 09:06:09 PM
Jonathan Meades' programmes are pretty interesting/funny/sarcastic.

Guess some of you guys might like his one about Nazi architecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jagoBzZT1q8

Best doc on Nazi architecture in my book is Architecture of Doom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttq7w-nS2g4&list=PL04464C944DCBB7E1

Doing the finishing touches on a follow up to Great Expectations called Microtopia but more on that later.

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ONE

This may appeal to some: not strictly a documentary about San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge itself or its' architects - but more concerned w/ those that take their own lives and the often deadly slow run-up to the ultimate act itself.  Greatly moving.



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Andrew McIntosh

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Bleak Existence

The Bridge is a good documentaries about suicide on the golden gate that last guy ...

ONE

Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on August 23, 2015, 11:24:31 AM
Looks very interesting. Although it didn't go down well in some quarters -

Unlike the jumpers; who took the full distance ...



"This could be the most morally loathsome film ever made. Director Eric Steel set up camera teams on both sides of the Golden Gate straits, and spent months waiting to film people committing suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge. Footage of several such desperate acts is included here, along with interviews with friends and family of the unfortunates involved.

Steel has said he tried to alert authorities whenever unusual behaviour became apparent, but at least one of the jumpers is filmed walking backwards and forwards for a considerable time; and the fact that he failed to be honest with either the bridge authorities or - more crucially - the families he interviews, tells its own story. The film was apparently inspired by an article in the New Yorker magazine, and there's an undeniable power in the accretion of detail and insight into what motivates suicides in the western world. Steel's methods are, however, thoroughly despicable."


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