Burlington City Arts, in affiliation with VTIFF, presents:
MICROTOPIA
55min, 2013
Director: Jesper Wachtmeister
Microtopia presents dreams of life in small, mobile or temporary spaces. Successful architects, builders and artists from different parts of the world propose radical solutions where all unnecessary things are removed and seemingly old and worn-out items are utilized. Behind this is a simple question: How much space, stuff and comfort do we really need? Whether building islands from garbage, tents hanging from trees, micro-homes on wheels, residential sleeping pods or experimental urban parasitic architecture, they are united by the effort to find ways to form new communities without environmental consequences. This film explores how individuals are pushing the limits to find answers to their dreams of portability, flexibility– and of creating independence from “the grid”. On the sidewalk, on rooftops, in industrial landscapes and in nature we learn how these abodes meet the dreams set up by their creators. Microtopia deals with contemporary ideas that are addressed, and solved, in very surprising ways.
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:
At 6:10, prior to the screening, Keith Moskow will speak on ”Swamp Hut, Ice Chime and Rural Interventions”
Keith Moskow FAIA creates finely detailed buildings attuned to their environment, envisions small scale urban interventions for better city living and writes books on architectural design to educate the profession and public at large. Keith’s talk at Burlington City Arts will focus on rural projects built as part of his Studio North program in Norwich, VT, as well as an 800 square foot home entirely heated and cooled by passive solar means and a two story tower built in downtown Boston for the sole purpose of making enormous icicles.
The Architecture + Design Film Series is sponsored by: TruexCullins, Vermont Eco-Floors, Riven Peregrine Design/Build, AIAVT, Emerging Professionals Network-AIAVT, American Flatbread Burlington Hearth, Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture, Redstone, Radio Bean/Duino Duende, Roland Batten Fund, John Bossange, Mark and Marilyn Neagley, William Cats-Baril and Isabelle Desjardins, Jared Gange & Virginia Loughren, Anonymous Donors
BCA Center video projector and screen generously donated by the John M. Bissell Foundation, Inc.