Film Screening “Ever the Land”
Hanoi: Sat 01 Jul 2017, 10 am
Cà phê Thứ bảy
3A Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi
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HCMC: Sat 01 Jul 2017, 3 pm
Cà phê Thứ bảy
19B Pham Ngoc Thach Str, Ward 6, Dist 3, HCMC
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Hai Phong: Sat 01 Jul 2017, 10 am
LightUp
7th floor, Cà phê Bắc Việt
4B Ho Sen Str, Le Chan Dist, Hai Phong
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Thai Nguyen: Sat 01 Jul 2017, 10 am
Thai Nguyen’s Architect Association
722 Luong Ngoc Quyen, Thai Nguyen
From the organizer:
This is the 5th screening of this year program themed on “Architecture and Sustainable Development” by Architecture Movies Club.
Recently, “Architecture for Community” has become a hot topic among numerous international architectural forums. A number of prestigious awards have been given to architects who dedicate their career to the improvement of life quality for under-privileged groups in their societies.
Following the theme “Architecture and Sustainable Development”, after the film “Building Hope” in June, the Architecture Movies Club would like to invite you the screening of award-winning documentary “EVER THE LAND – A People. A Place. Their Building” (2015).
EVER THE LAND explores the sublime bond between people and their land through a landmark architectural undertaking by one of New Zealand’s most passionately independent Maori tribes, Ngāi Tūhoe.
The setting is the forest region of Te Urewera and Tūhoe are an indigenous people fighting to rebuild and to claim their rights. For the past 150 years, the relationship between the Tūhoe Maori tribe and the New Zealand government has been defined by longstanding grievances over severe colonisation experiences such as illegal land confiscations and the devastating consequences of scorched earth policies. The film captures a period of change and tremendous foresight: Tūhoe are negotiating an apology and settlement from the Crown, and constructing an architectural gem of a community centre using radically sustainable methods. Tradition and environmentalism are brought together, and the film gives us a stirring depiction of Indigenous pride.
The new building is the binding character in this observational documentary that immerses us in a culture that is tightly woven into its land and an architecture that is defined by its intergrity to it. This is a film about past and future, tradition and modernity. Most of all, though, it’s about the grandest hopes—and what it takes to fulfill them.
Watch the film’s trailer:
The film will be screened with Vietnamese subtitles.
Free entry
At Cà phê thứ bảy Hanoi & HCMC, please pay for your drink (if you order)
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In July there will be an exhibition in Hanoi on the topic of architecture for community entitled “Community • Co-design • Architecture” presenting collaborative design processes in community-based architecture projects by Norwegian architect Alexander E. Furunes.
