Keyword: demolition

Nemesis

6.9

2020

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The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmakers window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.

Walled In

4.8

2009

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Supervising the razing of a mysterious building, a young demolition engineer discovers past inhabitants entombed within its walls by a vicious murderer. Now she must turn the tables before she becomes the killers latest victim.

Work in Progress

6.4

2001

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An author spent a year and a half filming what happened as a new apartment building was built in the El Chino neighborhood of Barcelona. En Construccion focuses less on the practicalities of raising a building than the impact the project has on those who live in the neighborhood, including a teenage couple squatting in a nearby building, an illegal alien looking for work for himself and his son, and a neighborhood girl who becomes infatuated with one of the construction workers. The death of a stray cat and the discovery of a mass grave during construction also points to the tragic losses that are sometimes part and parcel of progress.

Lost River

6.2

2014

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A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.

Gospel Hill

5.4

2008

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A former Sheriff of the southern town dealing with past sins, and a former civil rights worker, withdrawn since the martyrdom of his brother thirty years before, confront a threat to their town.

Operation Bikini

3

1963

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In 1944, an American submarine must transport an Underwater Demolition Team on a secret mission in the Japanese-infested waters of the South Pacific.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

6.6

2011

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Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the projects residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.