Borgate is media artist and architect Lotte Schreiber’s latest installment in her series of filmic examinations of architecture and (urban) space. Schreiber’s works are cartographic portrayals in film, in which she attempts to translate the formal languages of landscape and architecture into the formal language of cinematography. In Borgate, Schreiber consistently transfers the area of Don Bosco, which was designed by the city’s urban planning department, into rigidly framed images and sequences of serial montage. In the interplay of these mainly static shots and relaxed pans across facades and structural details, combined with quotes from Pasolini, Fellini and Antonioni, Borgate produces a visual and acoustic showcase of failed urban utopias. All this is underlined by Bernhard Lang’s symphonic composition, which gives the “petrification” of the images a wholly dramatic component.

Distributed by sixpackfilm: www.sixpackfilm.com