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

Films

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

Produced by Urban-Think Tank in 2016, this film represents, through the words of some of the people closest to it, the state of the Historical Museum after twenty years of disinvestment. Deconstructed songs of resistance from the Yugoslav partizan era link the museum’s architecture to the time of the institution’s birth, as the voices of Sarajevans suggest a new future for the building.

The People’s Museum

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.

Directed By	Daniel Schwartz
Concept By	Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner, Daniel Schwartz
Cinematography By	Daniel Schwartz
Editing By	Daniel Schwartz
Music	Marcel Aubert
Performance	Angela Ospina
With the Support of	The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Thanks of	MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho, Verónica Urbi, Rafael Machado

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