A 42-minute fever dream connecting buildings to celluloid — architecture finally gets its revenge on cinema.
Helmut Färber makes connections between architecture and film
Editing
Färber's juxtapositions make buildings breathe like actors.
Direction
Forty-two minutes of controlled obsession with surfaces.
Director
Helmut Färber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Färber was part of the radical German film journal Filmkritik, which rejected auteur worship for materialist analysis — this is theory disguised as cinema.
The film was nearly lost until a 2018 restoration; apparently even archives forgot architecture and film were supposedly connected.
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