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5th May 2016 - Film Screening:
The Dilapidated Dwelling - Patrick Keiller (2000)
Image Still: The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000)

Patrick Keiller's film The Dilapidated Dwelling is an examination of the predicament of domestic space in advanced economies, the UK in particular. A fictional researcher (with the voice of Tilda Swinton) returns from a 20-year absence in the Arctic to find that while the UK is still one of the world's wealthiest economies, its houses, flats etc. are typically old, small, dilapidated, architecturally impoverished, energy-inefficient and, especially, extraordinarily expensive. The film asks why repeated attempts to modernise house production have not been more successful. It includes archive footage of Buckminster Fuller, Constant, Archigram and Walter Segal, and interviews with Martin Pawley, Saskia Sassen, Doreen Massey, Cedric Price and others.

We hosted a screening in the Rotunda to fundraise for The Smallness Inside The Bigness and the Cressingham Gardens TRA. We raised £238.55. Many thanks to everybody who attended and donated.

Film screening at The Rotunda 5th May 2016
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