{"id":29864,"date":"2017-04-13T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=29864"},"modified":"2017-04-15T18:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T01:42:25","slug":"event-brasilia-life-design-film-may-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2017\/04\/13\/event-brasilia-life-design-film-may-8\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: Brasilia: Life After Design (Film), May 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23848 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/Events_Spacing_logoBanner_600.jpg\" alt=\"Spacing Events Vancouver Banner\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/Events_Spacing_logoBanner_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/01\/Events_Spacing_logoBanner_600-300x36.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Join the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofvancouver.ca\/content\/doxa-festival-screening-brasilia-life-after-design\">Museum of Vancouver<\/a>\u00a0for the Canadian premiere of Bart Simpson&#8217;s sublime urban documentary film, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brasilialifeafterdesign.com\/\">BRASILIA: Life After Design<\/a><\/strong> (Canada\/UK, 2016; 78 min.), followed by discussion with critic of architecture and urbanism Trevor Boddy and documentary filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartsimpson.tv\/\">Bart Simpson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Monday, May 8, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 7:00pm &#8211; 9:15pm<br \/>\n<strong>Admission:<\/strong> $15 Adults, $13 Students, Seniors and MOV members. Prices include GST.<br \/>\nOpen to youth under 18.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webstore1.centaman.net\/museumofvancouver\/EventsPrograms\/tabid\/124\/Default.aspx\"><strong>Tickets\/Registration<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQx-G7aObZI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part ode, part critique, Bart Simpson\u2019s film, comparable to Jonathan Richman&#8217;s tribute to corporate architecture in Lonely Financial Zone, takes the viewer on a surreal and melancholic tour of a strange and monumental cityscape. The camera pans across urban vistas and peers through archways, connecting with city dwellers perched like birds around the vast spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Designers conceived the federal capital, Brasilia, as a utopian project. It was constructed between 1956 and 1960 on an uninhabited site at the geographic center of the country. Brasilia was to be nothing less than the foundation for a new civilization, without the colonial baggage of the previous capital, Rio de Janeiro. Architect Oscar Niemeyer and urban planner Lucio Costa crafted their vision on modernist principles; they organized Brasilia to function as a \u201crational city.\u201d Decades later, it\u2019s fascinating to see the city\u2019s population navigating the constraints the designers imposed in their obsessive quest for order. Outside the city center, residents make do\u2014eating, shopping, erecting temporary structures, stopping to talk to each other, and generally carrying on with the messy business of being human. As Niemeyer himself states in the film, \u201clife is more important than architecture.\u201d \u2013 Adapted from Avril Woodend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Museum of Vancouver\u00a0for the Canadian premiere of Bart Simpson&#8217;s sublime urban documentary film, BRASILIA: Life After Design (Canada\/UK, 2016; 78 min.), followed by discussion with critic of architecture and urbanism Trevor Boddy and documentary filmmaker Bart Simpson. 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