Before an office complex is set to be demolished, it expresses one last wish: a love story. It centers around desire, security, and a melody that runs through the entire fabric of the building. So when darkness descends and everything falls silent, the routine lives of those within its walls sparkle like stars, paving the way for intimate chance encounters and absurd humor to unfold. A nocturnal kaleidoscope of longing, loneliness and freedom.

A film photo-montage about an old house that belonged to a traditional local family that was later demolished.

The documentary Two Doors traces the Yongsan Tragedy of 2009, which took the lives of five evictees and one police SWAT unit member. Left with no choice but to climb up a steel watchtower in an appeal to the right to live, the evictees were able to come down to the ground a mere 25 hours after they had started to build the watchtower, as cold corpses. And the surviving evictees became lawbreakers. The announcement of the Public Prosecutors’ Office that the cause of the tragedy lay in the illegal and violent demonstration by the evictees, who had climbed up the watchtower with fire bombs, clashed with voices of criticism that an excessive crackdown by government power had turned a crackdown operation into a tragedy.

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.

Le film explore la destruction d’une gare unique à Zurich et la construction d’une nouvelle prison et d’un centre de police à sa place. Vu de la fenêtre du cinéaste, et avec le témoignage de réfugiés en attente d’expulsion, le film scrute la façon dont nous faisons face à l’extinction de l’histoire et à son remplacement par une sécurité totale.

Chine. Ville de Fengje en amont du barrage des Trois Gorges. San Ming fait le voyage dans la région pour retrouver son ex-femme et sa fille qu'il n'a pas vu depuis seize ans. Aujourd'hui, l'immeuble, la rue, le quartier où elles ont vécu ne sont plus qu'une tache verte engloutie sous les eaux du barrage des Trois Gorges. Dans la même ville, une femme, Shen Hong, cherche son mari disparu depuis deux ans. Là où la construction du gigantesque barrage des Trois Gorges a pour conséquence la destruction de villages entiers et les déplacements de population, deux quêtes amoureuses s'enlacent, deux histoires qui se construisent et se déconstruisent.

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project's residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.

Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1964

Dans une ville qui se meurt, Billy, mère célibataire de deux enfants, est entraînée peu à peu dans les bas-fonds d’un monde sombre et macabre, pendant que Bones, son fils aîné, découvre une route secrète menant à une cité engloutie. Billy et son fils devront aller jusqu’au bout pour que leur famille s’en sorte.

Otto is the only one who is able to save his Frisian fatherland; but he needs the help of his brother, who is abroad. But his brother does not want to fulfill what he has sworn as a child. So it takes Otto a while to convince him while time is running low for his plans to save East-Frisia.

Based upon the life of Commander Francic D. Fane (USNR), UnderWater Warrior follows the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit from its inception near the end of World War II through its acceptance and finally successful utilization in Korea. Landmark underwater camera work makes Underwater Warrior a milestone in cinematic history.

En 1993, seize cadavres ont été découverts, ensevelis dans le Malestrazza Building. Cet immeuble mystérieux a été réalisé par un architecte mondialement connu et excentrique. Le meurtrier n’a jamais été capturé. Quinze ans plus tard, Sam Walczak, une ingénieure en génie civil nouvellement diplômée, prépare la démolition de l’immeuble.

Un ancien shérif, qui doit faire face aux erreurs de son passé, et un ancien activiste des droits civils, retiré depuis le martyre de son frère trente ans auparavant, s'unissent pour protéger leur ville.

Le film se déroule à bord d'un sous-marin américain dans le Pacifique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le commandant du sous-marin reçoit l'ordre d'arrêter une équipe de démolition sous-marine dirigée par le lieutenant Hayes, dont la mission est de localiser et de détruire un sous-marin américain dans un lagon au large de Bikini Atoll. système à bord.

Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Understanding this moment as a 'rupture', the film maps an essay by architectural historian Ellen Rowley on to documentation of the building's dismantling. Featuring oral interviews recorded at the site of the demolition and in a nearby hairdressers, the film invites viewers to pause and reflect on this ending alongside the community of the building. The film is informed by Ultimology, and invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and materials, how we mourn, what is sacred, how we gather, what we value and issues of sustainability in architecture.

An abstract film consists of static shots of a small house-like being demolished through temporal ellipsis.

A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s. It weaves together archival material with the filmmaker's personal narrative about living next to freeways, and features interviews with participants from the freeway revolt.

In the 1950s, Seattle had plans to build one of the densest networks of freeways in the world. It would have displaced thousands, especially the poor and people of color. Over the next two decades, a broad coalition of communities came together and halted these plans. Testimonies from that era are juxtaposed with interviews of activists who participated in the revolt, giving a picture of what Seattle could have been had the people not stood up to the highway lobby and their representatives.