AFFR tips: the best architecture films at IFFR

This experimental film imagines the city of Santiago de Compostela as sentient, revealed through a tapestry of travel writings. Private voices read personal exchanges, merged with hazy, soft-focus imagery and traced routes.

After mankind’s extinction, aliens arrive on Earth trying to understand the cause of this disaster by listening to specialists who had warned about the consequences of ruthlessly uncontrolled development. A documentary poem of great urgency

In Pretpark Hennie, we follow the maverick entrepreneur Hennie van der Most as he works on what is set to be his final project: creating a large-scale theme park on Rotterdam’s Maashaven. Part of the Inner Landscaping program.

A historical and political inquiry into the architecture of the Paris Métro system, from the initial designs of Hector Guimard to recent transformations. Part of the program DINAMO: Exposure.

Panning from a tour guide testing his microphone, to tourists deciding on a cafe, to a camera operator scouting for locations, this comedic single-take moves between rehearsed, reenacted and real. Part of the program Transformed Topograpy.

In a series of animated art boards, the city of Venice comes alive, as it struggles, crumbles and slowly decays – a development that has silently progressed over time. Part of the Transformed Topograpy program.

At the age of 86, Swedish experimental cinema master Claes Söderquist unveiled his latest work: Rum, a split-screen study of a manor’s interiors. A vision of the world after humans are gone, with only the objects left to tell their story.

After its world premiere at AFFR, now premiering at IFFR, during the RTM Day on 30 January in the foyer of LantarenVenster: the installation 'How Now, House?'