Colombia/Switzerland, 2015
5 min, Spanish
A short docu-fiction about the biographer of a city’s organs, wandering through and above her urban memories. Commissioned by <a href="https://migrosmuseum.ch/en/">The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst</a> for the 2015 exhibition “News from nowhere: Zürich Laboratory”, the film is a response to South Korean artist’s Moon &#x26; Jeon’s video projects. Themes such as ecological collapse, technological innovation, and perceptions of the past and future, are refracted through a contemporary resident of Medellin, Colombia.

La Continuación del Mundo

Films

India/Switzerland, 2014
15 min, English
Made in partnership with The Holcim Foundation and ETH Zürich, this short film places Mumbai as the backdrop for a new way of viewing and engaging informal settlements. Featuring interviews with experts and practitioners like Alejandro Araveña, David Chipperfield, Moshen Mostafavi, Aaron Sorkin, and Geeta Mehta among others, the documentary provides insights into a city that is struggling with rapid growth. Ultimately, cities like Mumbai provoke urgent questions about the role of architects and planners in humane urban development.

Mumbai: Maximum City Under Pressure

London, 1972 – the city is growing, and with it the need to house working populations. Post-war values of social welfare make experimenting with new forms of housing possible, ushering in an era of modernist, utopian projects. Among the most daring and innovative, Peter and Alison Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens estate.
The echoes of experts and decision-makers are heard as we explore the corridors of Robin Hood – their voices, like dissonant radio waves, take turns in expounding the values of the estate, while also arguing about its reputation, significance, and future. Meanwhile, intimate portraits of residents express the emotional, humorous, and complex story of the project. Mixing documentary and fiction storytelling, we piece the history of the Robin Hood Gardens estate gradually, from its initial transformation of industrial land into an idyllic, leafy neighbourhood, to its eventual re-configuration of street life into a vertical context, before turning to the contemporary reality.
Less than 50 years later, London is a very different place. The incessantly growing city, powered by financial capital, dissolves the previous generation’s social housing projects, re-development by re-development. An emerging steel-and-glass skyline defines the new norms of housing, rendering notions of social welfare more akin to history rather than to embodied policy. The question arises: where has Robin Hood gone?

The Disappearance of Robin Hood

Multiple Countries, 2013
Single-channel 45 min, Triple-Channel 33 min, Multiple languages
Compiled with material collected by U-TT Films over the course of three years, this documentary portrays the reality of urban informality around the world, structured in a dream-like dérive of a single day. Asking questions rather than presenting answers, “Gran Horizonte” aims to broaden the perspective of viewers about both the world they live within and the world they could help create.

Directed By	Daniel Schwartz and Martin Andersson
Concept By	Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner
Cinematography By	Daniel Schwartz and Markus Kneer
Edit By	Martin Andersson and Daniel Schwartz
Original Score By	Martin Andersson
Music By	Juana Molina
With the Support of	ETH Zürich, The Georg und Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Stiftung, Habitat Norway, The Coalmine Gallery