Sat, Dec 3 / 7 pm
Directed by Peter Young
2015, New Zealand, 85 min
Architecture+Film is an ongoing series of films which focus on architecture and design, co-presented by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation – a charitable organization dedicated to advancing the awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built environment through public education.
When a massive earthquake shakes the city of Christchurch to its foundations, amid the ruins and continuing aftershocks, a vibrant community-led movement of innovators and artists emerges, transforming the urban wasteland of central city into a giant canvas on which people express their responses to the earthquakes and their hopes for the city. Downtown becomes a frontier of creativity where new ideas flourish. From raw and tragic beginnings, it grows from a groundswell of spontaneous gap filling into a force that could redefine the shape of the future city. Projects like Gap Filler’s Dance-O-Mat and Pallet Pavilion, a profusion of street art and Peter Majendie’s 185 Empty Chairs Memorial have become iconic symbols of the grassroots urban movement providing a sharp contrastto central Government’s big business, corporate driven approach to the rebuild of the city. Soon, a new city will arise, but whose city will it be, and will the creative energy that brought life to the rubble be a part of its future?
