The Forms of Utility

A short film essay analyzing a landscape shaped by religion, capital, and war. The film blurs the line between memory and history, only to reveal their cyclicity. The focus of this work is the mistreatment of the modernist architecture of Zilina, a small town in Slovakia, built by a growing Jewish minority in the 1920s and 30s and by new settlers from rural areas in the 50s and 70s. Their tastes and ideologies have been visibly projected onto the town.

Film Maker
Tomeš Milec, Franz
Year
2017
Country
Slovakia, Czech Republic
Length
9
Language
Slovak w/ English Subtitles
Category
Architecture, Essay, Ethnography, history, Memory, Oral Histories, Religion, Society, Urban, War + Conflict, Work about Women
Genre
documentary, experimental, short

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