Competition Documentaries, Denmark 2009, 72 Min., English subtitles
A fascinating documentary portrait of the Danish capital: Director Max Kestner uses minute-long tracking shots with almost no camera movement to show us people in Copenhagen who gaze at and comment architecture, who plan architecture or put it into practise: Politicians, who plan new city quarters at the drawing-board. Architects, embellishing the city on miniature models. Workers, constructing buildings by the sweat of their brows. Students, installing a toilet in their flat. By and by a multi-layered portrait of a city and its modern living spaces comes into shape. At the same time this fascinating documentary, with its carefully selected frames and its subtle montage, is a complex reflection on how our way of living shapes a major city's architecture – and how, vice versa, the constructed frameworks influence people's lives. In doing so, director Max Kestner continues his successful stilistic principle of a mosaic description of everyday culture from "The World in Denmark" (NFL 2007).
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