Empathy for Concrete Things

1h 1m

Based on their experiences living and working amongst Soviet-era concrete, panel-block apartments, the filmmaker, together with five visual artists, examine past and present attitudes towards their former homes. Combining touching, personal stories with experimental research on the history of twentieth-century art and architecture, the film creates both a compelling narrative, and a contemporary aesthetic of panel-block mass housing using original watercolors, put into motion using digital animation and stop-motion techniques. As global and personal histories interweave, the film explores notions of moral and political responsibility as evinced in physical space.

Cast

Crew

Gregory Gan

Director, Writer, Animation, Sound Designer, Sound Mixer

Sound Designer, Sound Mixer

Florian Grolig

Visual Effects

Empathy for Concrete Things

Cast

Crew

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