Copenhagen Architecture Festival

It’s the third of the kind and it takes place not only in Copenhagen but also in Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense in Denmark from May 3rd till 16th. And it’s brilliant in thought and program. From the website, here is the introduction by the festival director Josephine Michau: CAFx investigates the role and impact of architecture in our lives and the world we live in. Architecture is more than just bricks, frameworks and compartments. It is sensual, corporeal and social. It is of political, historic and cognitive relevance. We live in constant interaction with architecture; it lives and changes alongside us and affects all aspects of our existence. Each year, the festival explores and presents ideas on the relation between the architectural world and human life through a broad public program of talks, films, performances, workshops, seminars and exhibitions in collaboration with various institutions and (inter)national partners…

On our site we would like to draw attention to the film program, that starts tomorrow where the festival opens with Danish director Boris Benjamin Bertram’s “Human Shelter”, that “takes you on a poetical expedition all over the world – an anthropological exploration of how human beings are creating our homes on planet earth”. There is a retrospective of films by Agnès Varda, and of films by Carl Th. Dreyer – see how he works with space in the photo above from “Ordet”, there are portraits of architects, of course, like Frank Gehry, Utzon, Bjarke Ingels, films on Niemeyer’s Brasilia, there are films by grand master of Danish documentary Jørgen Roos, and his niece Lise Roos.

Surprise for me is that – Sunday 13th of May 2pm at Cinemateket there is a launch of a book written by Claire Thomson, “Short films from a Small Nation” and the trilogy of Jørgen Roos, “A City Called Copenhagen” and his less known films on Hamburg and Oslo, all from the 60’es are screened.

And Palle Vedel makes a preview of his silent Copenhagen city symphony “with an original soundtrack” – in yellow, Dziga Vertov and Walter Ruttmann in memoriam.

OBS! The festival with many film screenings also takes place in Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense – and there is a lot to watch on the DRK.

Fantastic initiative – take a look on the website and see all the events that accompany the festival.

http://cafx.dk/

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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