Movie Details
Original Language:English
Avant lenvol
DirectorLaurence Bonvin
20 minDocumentary
Plot
Avant lenvol explores the actual state of a selection of relevant modernist public buildings in the main Ivorian city As an architectural tour as well as a tribute to the remarkable architectural achievements of the 60s and 70s and to among others architects the great Henri Chomette a special attention is given to users and passersby to their gestures and ways of informally appropriating the spaces for their needs Monumentality appears here as a reminder of the ambitious and utopian vision of an era and architecture itself becomes a metaphor for power that eventually reveals a state of lasting status quo
