Tyranny of Architecture, The

Film Maker
Mangaard, Annette
Year
1987
Country
Canada
Language
Format
16mm
Length
10
Genre
experimental
Category
Architecture

A group of Muslim women cross a dirt road in an oasis on the Sahara Desert. The camera scans the frosting-like architecture of Venice. “We do not always choose to live where we do, and if we are so lucky as to choose the abode we can not often choose the locale.” A personal history of relations with various environments is the voice-over for a series of optically printed images which were originally shot in Venice and Tunisia.

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