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The German government’s intervention made the 1958 version of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habtitation, the most compromised of the architect’s vision for unified living. Though the building is counted as one of the five structures of the architect’s modernist residential manifesto between 1947 and 1965, Le Corbusier refused any association with the Berlin Unité d’habtitation as a result of Government restriction. Presented here are five methods to calculate and quantify the effected loss of ideal living on the building’s inhabitants.

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short film / installation Dogpalm, CA 3 minutes 16mm stills (watch clip)

An artifact of an incomplete memoir of a Californian Dream. The opportunity that lies west and lingers in the sun drenched light of an impossible promise which exists in the fictional place of Dogpalm, CA.

featuring music by Benoit Pioulard

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$short film The Practice of Living 8 min A young man follows the step - by - step process of illegally squatting a property through the use of an instructional audio CD which details the confrontation between the ideas of squatting culture and the ideas of land ownership. The burst of the United States housing bubble in 2008 cast thousands of Americans out of their homes and fractured the supposed stability of the global financial system. With little to no connection to activist squatting culture, hundreds of U.S. citizens took it upon themselves to take shelter in the surplus of vacated houses suddenly available. The character presented in the film follows the logistical steps required to squat an abandoned property but his motivations lack either the desperation of homelessness or the militance of activism. In the absence of any apparent crisis this squatter brings a carefree ambivalence to the reality of his situation. As he follows the step-by-step instructions to squatting, what remains are the mundane actions required to inhabit a space outside the imagination of land ownership and private property. starring Joe Haege (currently in festival circulation video soon)$

short film The Practice of Living 8 min

A young man follows the step - by - step process of illegally squatting a property through the use of an instructional audio CD which details the confrontation between the ideas of squatting culture and the ideas of land ownership.

The burst of the United States housing bubble in 2008 cast thousands of Americans out of
their homes and fractured the supposed stability of the global financial system. With
little to no connection to activist squatting culture, hundreds of U.S. citizens took it upon
themselves to take shelter in the surplus of vacated houses suddenly available. The
character presented in the film follows the logistical steps required to squat an abandoned
property but his motivations lack either the desperation of homelessness or the militance
of activism. In the absence of any apparent crisis this squatter brings a carefree
ambivalence to the reality of his situation. As he follows the step-by-step instructions to
squatting, what remains are the mundane actions required to inhabit a space outside the
imagination of land ownership and private property.

starring Joe Haege

(currently in festival circulation video soon)

1 year ago View high resolution