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Forensic Architecture: Mapping is Power from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.

“The truth is in the error.” Meet the head of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, in this fascinating in-depth interview about his work and the potential of architecture as a critical tool for understanding the world.

“Since I remember myself, I have wanted to be an architect.” Eyal Weizman grew up in Haifa, Israel, and from early on developed an understanding of “the political significance of architecture”:

“I could see the way that neighbourhoods were organized. I could see the separation. I could see the frontier areas between the Palestinian community and the Jewish majority.”

Forensic Architecture is far from a traditional architectural company. It is a multidisciplinary research group investigating human rights violations, including violence committed by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations. It includes not only architects but also artists, software developers, journalists, lawyers and animators. Working with grassroots activists, international NGOs and media organisations, the team carries out investigations on behalf of people affected by political conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence. Forensic Architecture uses architectural tools and methods to conduct spatial and architectural analysis of particular incidents in the broadest possible sense. Visualising and rendering in 3D, they not only reconstruct a space but also document what happened in it. “People mistake architecture to be about building buildings. Architecture is not that. Architecture is the movements and the relations that are enabled by the way you open, close and channel functions, people, and movements within that. The minute that you understand that architecture is about the incident, about the event, about social relations that happen within it, it enables you to understand social relations and events in a much better way. In fact, in a very unique way”, says Eyal Weizman.

Forensic Architecture gives a voice to materials, structures and people by translating and disseminating the evidence of the crimes committed against them, telling their stories in images and sound. When an incident of violence and its witnessing are spatially analysed, they acquire visual form. Accordingly, Forensic Architecture is also an aesthetic practice studying how space is sensitised to the events that take place within it. The investigation and representation of testimony depend on how an event is perceived, documented and presented.

“There is a principle of Forensic investigation called the “look hard principal” – and it claims that every contact leaves a trace. Because many of the crimes that Forensic Architecture is looking at today happen within cities, happen within buildings, architecture becomes the medium that conserves those traces.”

Unlike established forms of crime and conflict investigation, Forensic Architecture employs several unconventional and unique methods to shed light on events based on the spaces where they took place. They also invest much attention in mapping and understanding concepts like witness, testimony and evidence, and their interrelations. Witness testimony, which sits at the centre of human rights discourse, can be more than viva voce, oral testimony in a court. Any material, like leaves, dust and bricks, can bear witness.

Forensic Architecture investigates and gives a voice to material evidence by using open-source data analysed using cutting-edge methods partly of their own design. Using 3D models, they facilitate memory recollection from witnesses who have experienced traumatic events. The objective is to reconstruct the ‘space’ in which the incident in question took place and then re-enact the relevant events within this constructed model. The most important sources tend to be public: social media, blogs, government websites, satellite data sources, news sites and so on. Working with images, data, and testimony and making their results available online while exhibiting select cases in galleries and museums, Forensic Architecture brings its investigations into a new kind of courtroom. “Our work is about care. It is about attention. It is about developing and augmenting the capacity to notice, to register those traces. But that’s not all. Then we need to connect them – one trace to the other. In that sense, our work is like a detective. We look at the past in order to transform the future.” Eyal Weizman was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at Forensic Architecture’s studio in London in April 2022.

Camera: Kyle Stevenson Edited by: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2022

Louisiana Channel is supported by Den A.P. Møllerske Støttefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, C.L. Davids Fond og Samling and Fritz Hansen.

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Homage to Poly Styrene from Ana Louro on Vimeo.

A little homage to the great Poly Styrene!

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CYCOLOGIC Trailer from Emilia Stålhammar on Vimeo.

"Traveling the streets of Kampala one does not only face a chaotic and dangerous traffic environment but also struggles to go through endless queues, pollution, motorcyclists and cars attacking you from every angle which is a energy-consuming dilemma.

Politicians seems to have given up but there are a few people who strives to show that there are alternative ways of movements.

The urban planner Amanda Ngabirano's biggest dream is to have a cycling lane in her city. An impossible task, according to most people, but not according to Amanda."

For any enquiries please contact: emiliastalhammar@gmail.com veronica.palsson@gmail.com elsalowdin@gmail.com

Awards: Grand Prix - African Road Safety Film Festival, Morocco, 2018 Best Short Documentary - Annual Copenhagen Film Festival, Denmark, 2018 Best Short Film - ArchFilmLund, Sweden, 2017 Juried Prize Best Short Film - Dublin Feminist Film Festival, Ireland, 2017 Juried Prize Best Film - New Urbanism Film Festival, USA, 2017 Audience Award - Environmental Film Festival Australia, 2017 Juried Prize Best Short Film - ArchFilmLund Prize, Sweden, 2017 Juried Prize Best Short Film - RUEDA Cycling Film Festival, Spain, 2017 Juried Prize Best Short Film - London Feminist Film Festival, UK, 2017 Juried Prize of the Media Partner Aktuality.sk for Inspiring Message - Ekotop, Slovakia, 2017 Juried Prize Best Short Film - Bike Shorts Film Festival, USA, 2017 Audience Award - Bike Shorts Film Festival, USA, 2017 Juried Prize Best Short Film Africa / Middle East Cinema 2nd quarter - Nüren Film Festival, Singapore, 2017 Juried Prize Best Documentary Goldene Kúrbel, International Cycling Film Festival - Germany, 2016 Audience Award, International Cycling Film Festival - Poland, 2016

Official Selections: Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Ukraine Budapest Architecture Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary Architecture Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands World Wide Women's Film Festival, Arizona, USA ArchFilm - Lund, Sweden Interfilm Berlin Film Festival - Berlin, Germany We The People's Film Festival, London, UK Green Screen Environmental Film Festival - Trinidad & Tobago Greenmotions Film Festival, Freiburg, Germany Prvi Kadar International Film Festival - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina The People's Film Festival - London, UK Dublin Feminist Film Festival - Dublin, Ireland Environmental Film Festival Australia - Melbourne, Australia Imagine This Women's Film Festival - Brooklyn, USA Iran International Green Film Festival - Tehran, Iran New Urbanism Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam - Rotterdam, The Netherlands Leeds International Film Festival - Leeds, UK RUEDA International Cycling Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain Bicycle Film Festival - Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada International Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival 201 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Sose International Film Festival - Yerevan, Armenia Tuzla Film Festival - Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina International Images Film Festival for Women - Harare, Zimbabwe Aaretaler Kurzfilmfestival - Trimstein, Switzerland Bicycle Film Festival - Quito, Ecuador London Feminist Film Festival - London, England Global Impact Film Festival - Washington, USA Bicycle Film Festival - New York, USA Eko International Film Festival - Lagos, Nigeria Viva Film Festival - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina The Cump Festival - Nairobi, Kenya Les Filministes - Montréal & Québec, Canada Aaretaler Kursfilmtage, Trimstein, Switzerland Edinburgh Festival of Cycling - Edinburgh, Scotland Silver Horse International Film Festival - Borlänge, Sweden Cine Sister, Plymouth - England Feminist Festival - Malmö, Sweden EkoTopFilm - Bratislava, Slovenia Nüren Film Festival, Singapore, Singapore CinemAmbiente - Turin, Italy Bike Short Film Festival - Virginia, USA Trondheim Sykkelfilm Festival - Trondheim, Norway Global Road Safety Film Festival UN - Geneva, Switzerland South African Eco Film Festival - Cape Town, South Africa Big Bike Night - Touring in New Zealand Doc Lounge - Malmö, Sweden Filmed By Bike - Portland Oregon, USA Chicago Feminst Film Festival - Chicago, USA Berlin Feminist Film Week - Berlin, Germany International Cycling Film Festival - Herne, Germany & Krákow, Poland Giddy Up Film Tour - Touring in USA

Articles:

facebook.com/cycologicdocumentary

blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/cycologic-power-women-power-bicycles-uganda?page=1

wearemovingstories.com/we-are-moving-stories-films/2017/10/25/new-urbanism-film-festival-cycologic?rq=cycologic

ecf.com/news-and-events/news/cycologic-film-about-changing-world-one-bicycle-time

cyclingfilms.de/en/2016/10/23/eilmeldung-goldene-kurbel-geht-nach-schweden/

newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1431631/amanda-ngabirano-ugandan-inspired-swedish-filmmakers

twitter.com/UN/status/790107996261117952

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Arte Moderno y Contemporánea de Interiores (s4) Diébédo Francis Kéré How to build with clay... and community- V2 from IEU Online on Vimeo.

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Diébédo Francis Kéré: Sustainable Architecture is the future from ThisIsAfrica on Vimeo.

Diébédo Francis Kéré is one of the rising stars of Sustainable Architecture.

Video courtesy of the Locus Foundation (locus-foundation.org/index2.htm)

For the full article in which this video appears, visit This Is Africa (http://bit.ly/i9ye5X)

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Tadao Ando - Ichigoni 152 from Willow Glen on Vimeo.

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TADAO ANDO Church of the Light from A As Architecture on Vimeo.

In the small town of Ibaraki, 25km outside of Osaka, Japan, stands one of Tadao Ando’s signature architectural works, the Church of the Light. The Church of the Light embraces Ando’s philosophical framework between nature and architecture through the way in which light can define and create new spatial perceptions equally, if not more so, as that of his concrete structures. Completed in 1989, the Church of the Light was a renovation to an existing Christian compound in Ibaraki. The new church was the first phase to a complete redesign of the site – later completed in 1999 – under Ando’s design aesthetic.

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The NELKEN-Line by Pina Bausch From Taiwan from Pina Bausch Foundation on Vimeo.

We come from Taiwan!

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Dancing at Dusk - A moment with Pina Bausch's The Rite of Spring from Sadler's Wells on Vimeo.

In this stunning film, Pina Bausch’s iconic choreography The Rite of Spring is danced in an extraordinary setting, on the beach in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal

Filmed as the world descended into lockdown it captures the last rehearsal of a specially assembled company of 38 dancers from 14 African countries, and documents a unique moment in their preparations for an international tour. A rare opportunity to watch one of the world’s greatest dance works.

A Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and École des Sables production.

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Being Black in America: Why Place and Race Matter (Mary Lee) from Prof. Randall's Videos on Vimeo.

Why Race and Place Matter - Race continues to fracture our society, compounding disadvantage and perpetuating it across generations. The structures of racism—many of them rooted in discriminatory policies and practices of earlier eras—pose perhaps the most intractable barriers to equitable opportunity and a healthy, prosperous future. This presentation will examine how neighborhood environments and racially based barriers to opportunity intersect and impact the health of individuals, families, and communities. Concrete strategies for dismantling racially based policies that undermine health, and an action agenda of specific policy steps will be outlined as part of a framework for building healthy communities.

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Connecting 50 Years of Pride | Airbnb from Ivan Cash on Vimeo.

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, LGBTQ+ artists, activists, and everyday heroes from different generations came together to have candid conversations about what pride means to them.

Support SAGE, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ elders: sagenyc.org/nyc/

Featuring: Lujira Cooper: Stonewall Veteran and Writer Frankie Giangarra: Camp Counselor Marcia Gilbert: Designer Richard Haines: Artist Fatima Jamal: Artist and Activist Brigid McGinn: Activist with Gays Against Guns and Educator Kenrick Prince: Film Director Barbara Rosen: Stonewall Vete ran and Board of Directors at SAGE Scott Shigeoka: Designer and Storyteller Mohammad “Momo” Ullah: Activist Charles “Val” Valentino: Stonewall Veteran & Singer of Gay Anthem ‘Born This Way’ Leah Wasilewski: Artist

Credit: Production Company: Curfew Partners: Spencer Dennis, Mark Smith Executive Producer: Kathryn Berk Line Producer: Anna Pitman Director: Ivan Cash Director of Photography: Peter Pascucci Editor: Erik Aull Composer: Roger Neil Post Producer: Jake Kolton Mix & Color: Mission Film & Design

Client: Airbnb Executive Producer: Lindsey Linger Executive Creative Director: Tony Hogqvist Marketing Director: Andrew Speyer Marketing Manager: Anne Mueller Creative Lead: Ivan Cash, Christian Rongavilla, Roger Hoard Producer: Julia Pepe Partnership Lead: Sanna Akhter SAGE Senior Digital Content Manager: Anna Wahrman Copywriter: Cameron Hamlet Design Lead: Santiago Carrasquilla Designer: Sungpyo Hong Production Coordinator: Sofia Aguilar, Emily Lin Social Lead: Deepti Sataluri Digital Media: Dwight Pirtle

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Connecting 50 Years of Pride | Airbnb from Ivan Cash on Vimeo.

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, LGBTQ+ artists, activists, and everyday heroes from different generations came together to have candid conversations about what pride means to them.

Support SAGE, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ elders: sagenyc.org/nyc/

Featuring: Lujira Cooper: Stonewall Veteran and Writer Frankie Giangarra: Camp Counselor Marcia Gilbert: Designer Richard Haines: Artist Fatima Jamal: Artist and Activist Brigid McGinn: Activist with Gays Against Guns and Educator Kenrick Prince: Film Director Barbara Rosen: Stonewall Vete ran and Board of Directors at SAGE Scott Shigeoka: Designer and Storyteller Mohammad “Momo” Ullah: Activist Charles “Val” Valentino: Stonewall Veteran & Singer of Gay Anthem ‘Born This Way’ Leah Wasilewski: Artist

Credit: Production Company: Curfew Partners: Spencer Dennis, Mark Smith Executive Producer: Kathryn Berk Line Producer: Anna Pitman Director: Ivan Cash Director of Photography: Peter Pascucci Editor: Erik Aull Composer: Roger Neil Post Producer: Jake Kolton Mix & Color: Mission Film & Design

Client: Airbnb Executive Producer: Lindsey Linger Executive Creative Director: Tony Hogqvist Marketing Director: Andrew Speyer Marketing Manager: Anne Mueller Creative Lead: Ivan Cash, Christian Rongavilla, Roger Hoard Producer: Julia Pepe Partnership Lead: Sanna Akhter SAGE Senior Digital Content Manager: Anna Wahrman Copywriter: Cameron Hamlet Design Lead: Santiago Carrasquilla Designer: Sungpyo Hong Production Coordinator: Sofia Aguilar, Emily Lin Social Lead: Deepti Sataluri Digital Media: Dwight Pirtle

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I Feel, Therefore I Can Be Free from Nzingha Kendall on Vimeo.

Sara Gómez's groundbreaking film, DE CIERTA MANERA / ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (1974), examines the effects of the Cuban Revolution on a Havana neighborhood and its residents and workers. A hybrid film that mixes documentary footage with a fictional romance between Yolanda, a primary school teacher, and Mario, a factory worker, DE CIERTA MANERA deftly examines the ongoing tensions of the Revolution.

"I Feel, Therefore I Can Be Free," borrows from Audre Lorde in its title as well as in the written text within the video. Lorde's words, intercut with sequences from Gómez's film, come together in the spirit of Sylvia Wynter's deciphering practice. By questioning the aims of representational analysis in attempts to understand Caribbean films and filmmaking, Wynter explains that a deciphering practice "seeks to identify not what texts and their signifying practices can be interpreted to mean but what they can be deciphered to do."

This video essay is part of a series on DE CIERTA MANERA.

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Tutorial 1o N.E.R.D & Rihanna from Natasha Vergilio on Vimeo.

Releitura Tutorial 1o Lemon - N.E.R.D & Rihanna

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Jaraguá from Cinema de Rua on Vimeo.

O dia em que os índios ocuparam a torre do Jaraguá em defesa de suas terras. Não à privatização do parque, o Jaraguá é Guarani.

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Spaldin' Animated short from Doryan Nelson on Vimeo.

my 5th annual animation short serving as a tribute to musician Esperanza Spalding! This is also my animation final for my 2nd year of college

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Nostalghia ( Nostalgia ) (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky Uzun Plan from sinematek on Vimeo.

Nostalghia ( Nostalgia ) (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky Uzun Plan