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.
Using the wrinkle as a metaphor for the visible traces of the passage of time on both people and buildings, this poetic short by Daisy Ziyan Zhang zooms in on a building in the centre of Mexico that has been lived in, destroyed by an earthquake, abandoned and restored for over 70 years. By using technology and sharp observations of otherwise unaccounted details of everyday life, the film proposes new ways to understand architectural authorship, based on the continuous acts of care.
