The BARQ Festival was born from the desire to make a genre still little known in Spain reach the general public.
Description by BARQ festival
Eight feature films and eleven shorts aim to become the winners of the first edition of the BARQ Festival, which will be held in Barcelona from 11 to 16 May, coinciding with the Barcelona Architecture Week 2021.
In parallel to the screenings that can be seen at the Cinemes Girona in Barcelona and the Disseny HUB, the festival program includes debates and conferences. Selected films will also be available on the Filmin platform during the festival days.
Opening film.-
- Tokyo Ride
Renowned filmmakers Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine arrive in Tokyo and embark on an unusual adventure journey. Revisiting the road movie genre in a very personal way, we are invited to accompany them aboard the vintage Alfa Romeo of one of Japan’s most influential architects, Ryūe Nishizawa.
Closing film.-
- Making a mountain
The epic construction of CopenHill, an environmentally friendly power plant turned into a social park, is the brilliant and crazy idea of Bjarke Ingels, who was able to carry out this visionary and unique architectural project in the world.
Feature films in competition.-
- Acasa, my home
In the desert of the Bucharest Delta, the Enache family has lived isolated and in perfect harmony with nature in an immense green space next to the bustling metropolis lis. When the authorities want to transform this area into a public national park, they are forced to leave behind their little convinced life and move to the big city.
- Wtc a love story
Using cinema as an architectural tool, WTC A Love Story reconstructs the power relations between the various actors involved in the redevelopment of the North Station district of Brussels. The area, highly populated, was totally destroyed in the seventies to build the "Little Manhattan", a utopian dream with the two towers of the WTC as crown jewels.
- A machine to live in
In 1960 the world was witnessing the birth of Brasilia, a futuristic metropolis designed from the utopia of eliminating social classes. A psychedelic journey through Oscar Niemeyer’s mystical architecture and dream technology reveals the construction of a cosmic dream on a human scale.
- Charlotte perriand, pioneer in the art of living
Designer and architect Charlotte Perriand left her mark on the 20th century. A close portrait in the form of a tribute brings us closer to an exceptional life and transports us to a profound reflection on contemporary society, the liberation of women and the role that architecture and design play in all of it.
- Inside prora
Known as the "monster by the sea" and projected during Nazi Germany to host 20,000 workers during their summer holidays, One of the GDR’s toughest and most rigid soldier internment centres after the Second World War. Completely fanning swim after the reunification of Germany, luxurious hotels and tourist apartments now emerge from the ruins of this historic building.
- Richard leplastrier: framing the view
Richard Leplastrier lives quietly with his family in a cabin in the forest in complete harmony with the environment. Far from becoming a starchitect and fleeing media attention, he applies his quiet and austere lifestyle to his unique architecture.
- Peter rice: an engineer imagines
The legacy of Peter Rice, a vile engineer who transcended the limits of art and science, shows us that an architectural work could not exist without engineering. Without their innovative ideas, practical solutions and collaboration with the most important architects around the world, many of the world famous buildings would not be standing today: the Sydney Opera House, the Pom pidou Centre and the Lloyd’s Building are just a few examples.
Short films for competition.-
- In between
Due to the precarious working situation, a whole generation of Kosovars had to migrate to secure a future. Now parents and brothers finance the construction of groups of houses for their return.
- Next sunday
The Maarad project by Oscar Nie Meyer aimed to provide Tripoli with a huge fairground and change its social life, but the works were stopped in 1975 and is currently in a state of semi-rruina. A group of young acrobats-pa tinadores has discovered in par that the perfect place to escape to train on Sundays.
- Calling architecture
We’ve all heard of the Villa Savoie or the Seagram’s Building. But the ever silenced actor in architecture, the user, interacts with these monuments of his architectural work through a completely different prism: that of his day to day.
- Extreme conservation: croft lodge studio
After moving into the next house in 2008, architects Kate Darby and David Connor decided to build their studio in a ruined house. After assessing the remains of more than three hundred years of existence, they decided to build a second skin and install the study inside.
- Filamento
From Miyace’s hand we relive in first person how was his encounter with Rossana Orlandi; since she began to follow them in the social networks until agreeing a first meeting from which they left accepting a complex and fragile commission.
- De lentloper
We pause our gaze in moments engraved on the bridge De Lentlo per at different times of the day during a whole year. The careful geometric composition of the plans shows the contrast between the architecture of the bridge, the nature that surrounds it and the passers-by.
- A conversation about food and the city
Architects, journalists, geographers, political scientists and anthropologists all talk while eating about the influence of food in the city. Having roast croquettes, seafood cocktail, Milanese rice, ros con de crema with bread, wine, water and coffee included in the menu, the table above is assured. Food is now synonymous with urban planning, not only because of issues related to its production, distribution and sale, but also because of its growing presence in the public space.
- Cicadas, cats and other animals
Summer 2020. Between planes that recall the photographs of Fran cesc Català Roca of the Ugal House designed by Antoni Coderch, we hear Manhã De Carnaval by Luiz Bonfá as a hymn to the dolce far niente. This portrait is also a comic dialogue between the father who lends himself to the daughter’s proposals and the daughter following the father in his habitat of gadgets and inventions.
- Raft islands
After meeting a couple who lived in a self-sufficient floating construction on the west coast of Vancouver, the project to extend this model of life to a community began. Raft Islands is born and will have to deal with numerous setbacks in the search for eco-sustainable utopia.
- The hermit’s castle
The Hermit’s Castle was built in the early 1950s by the architect David Scott. This is perhaps one of the most remote and isolated pieces of architecture in the UK. Located on a coastal cape only accessible on foot, the hor migón structure is discretely glimpsed in the midst of the rocky landscape.
- Max holzheu: a legacy of guatemalan brutalist architecture
Max Holzheu tells us about his professional career as an architect for more than fifty years and having participated in about two hundred projects. What began as a natural career, following his father’s legacy, became his passion.
