Schindler's Houses

"Schindler's Houses" shows forty buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler's pioneering work in Southern California is the cornerstone of a branch of modern architecture. All the material for the film was shot in May 2006. The film is thus also an up-to-date portrait of urban life in Los Angeles that has never been documented in this form before. 

 "Architecture projects space into this world. Cinemaphotography translates that space into pictures projected in time. Cinema then is used in a completely new way: as a space to meditate on buildungs."    Heinz Emigholz

© Amour Fou Filmproduktion, Heinz Emigholz Filmproduktion, KGP Filmproduktion

World premiere: Berlin International Filmfestival 2007 (Berlin, Germany)