AFFR explores the relationship between film, cities and architecture by programming and screening architecture films and by organizing introductions and debates.
The Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) was established in 2000, and the foundation organized its festival the same year as the first architecture film festival in the world. Festivals also took place again in 2001 and 2003. In 2007 AFFR made a fresh start after a few years of silence. In 2009 the event expanded significantly in terms of visitor numbers and programming.
Drawing and architecture coalesce in this short animation film, in which a city is built and demolished, then rebuilt, and so on – even as waves crash. A film about transience and temporariness, with an imploring, Laurie Anderson-like voice-over and cheerful shapes and colours reminiscent of De Stijl. Even so, I am not going to cry is unsettling. Małgorzata Maria Olchowska clearly had the war in Ukraine and the recent major earthquakes in Turkey in mind.
