Film Premiers: Torre David and beyond

These films touched off a debate between Sorkin and Brillembourg, the filmmaker, about urbanism and architecture that attacks poverty in the global south.

reSITE and Aerofilms presented a screening of 3 films, including the Czech premiere of “Torre David”, directed and produced by the award-winning studio of Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner of Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) in Zurich and Caracas. “Torre David” was accompanied by two short films “Mumbai: Maximum City Under Pressure” and “MK’s Upstairs Shack”. The screening was followed by a discussion of Alfredo Brillembourg (U-TT, Zürich) and Michael Sorkin (City University of New York, NYC) moderated by Helena Doudova.

These films touched off a debate between Sorkin and Brillembourg, the filmmaker, about urbanism and architecture that attacks poverty in the global south. The discussion scraped below the surface of citizen-led urbanism, income inequality and social housing, themes raised across many reSITE 2015: The Shared City conference and festival events.