Movie Details
Original Language:English
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in the forest
DirectorDavid Hartt
20 min
Plot
David Hartts film in the forest revisits Habitat Puerto Rico an unfinished project conceived by Moshe Safdie in 1968 Launched just one year after Safdie completed Habitat 67 Habitat Puerto Rico was one of several iterations of that visionary project that the architect developed for New York Israel and Singapore among other cities Nearly fifty years after Habitat Puerto Rico was launched in the forest returns to its sites as well as a number of remote locations around the island where modules have been abandoned or repurposed Investigating the relationship between ideology architecture and the environment Hartts meditative film captures the remains of Safdies project and offers a pensive study of this unrealized architectural experiment recontextualized within the political and economic struggles of contemporary Puerto Rico
