A series of ten short experimental films, Built To Last presents an audio-visual mosaic of relics of communist-era architecture in the former Soviet Union and its satellite countries. It features examples of early socialist realist architecture, panel housing constructions from the 1950s, modernism from the Brussels Expo style from the ‘60s, socialist modernism, concrete brutalism of the 1970s, and the high-rises of the 1980s. Even though the architecture styles of the communists and the iconic buildings may be static, this journey through the history of architecture is dynamic and swift.
PRIZES:
Archfilm Lund 2017 – Best documentary film