Slaughterhouses of Modernity (2022)

Contemporary cinemas preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the everpresent crisis of 20thcentury modernity Heinz Emigholz returns with an alternately mournful and sly treatise on how the presenceand in some cases absenceof municipal and communal building architecture is inseparable from capitalist ideology Focusing mainly on cities and provinces in Argentina Germany and Bolivia Emigholzs latest film is a work of quiet observation and historical excavation From slaughterhouses in Salamone to the flooded former spa city of Epecuén to the newly built Humboldt Forum in Berlin the film demonstrates the effect of capital on public spaces where creation and destruction go hand in hand and as always Emigholz makes the journey one of intellectual force and cinematic beauty