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Two Stones

2019-11-26 en 61m
Let’s embark upon a journey to discover two collective housing projects. One in Kharkiv, Ukraine, from the early days of the Soviet era in 1930; the other, in the suburbs of Rotterdam, in the 1950s. Their connection? Lotte Stam-Beese, the first woman to train as an architect at the Bauhaus, who took part in both ventures. Two political and social spaces for two different architectural utopias. The film unfolds stories and expands them with well-informed, militant explanations, as we go back and forth, sometimes imperceptibly, from one city to another, from past to present, in a delicate weaving operation. As a game of transfer and echoes, of viewpoints opening up a counter-History, in reverse, as suggested by the superimpositions the film is peppered with. A journey through the bends of places, History, words, punctuated by the apparitions of an interpreter who translates as much as she comments, in a whispering voice, as a ghostly narrator.

Editor

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Producer

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Producer

Fabian Altenried

Sound Mixer

Titus Maderlechner

Director of Photography

Maasja Ooms

Director

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Status

Released

Countries

    Companies

    • Schuldenberg Films