City21: A New Independent Film
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June 22, 2009
DURHAM, Pa. -- This film production produced by The Knossus Project arises from a worldwide learning journey that was transmuted into cinematic composition illuminating some of the key perspectives + initiatives that are re-shaping the ethos of the 21st Century City.
The underlying quest of the filmmakers is to reframe the conventional and uninspiring visions of the urban future with an unprecedented combination of fresh, invigorating, sustainable, economically viable, and life enhancing concepts.
Below are some of the themes we have explored in an effort to loosen the geometric and economic grip on the urban imagination:
The Sacred Origins of the City: City Plans through time
The City as Memory Theater: Timeless Cities - mythic knowledge transmitted through the ages through the 3D power of Architecture and Design
Regenerative Design: Nature/Architecture, the transformation of the Biosphere2 Project into an Eco-Village design
The Self-Sustaining City State: Energy Independence in Iceland
The Creative Green City: The Lighthouse Project in Glasgow
Findhorn: the enduring Art of Creating an Eco-Village
Magic Architecture: The Underground City of Damanhur, Italy
The Utopian Imagination: Poetry/Architecture/The Open City Project in Ritoque, Chile
Stewart Brand: The Long Now Perspective
While the filmmakers have been enormously pleased with the success of our previous documentary: Ecological Design: Inventing the Future, we are convinced that powerfully destructive forces like: over-population, unrelenting urban sprawl, generic design programs, threaten the promising conceptual breakthrough of recent times.
This quest is an example of heuristic filmmaking in search of a magic synthesis that inspires new insights and actions in support of making the World a more livable place.
The underlying quest of the filmmakers is to reframe the conventional and uninspiring visions of the urban future with an unprecedented combination of fresh, invigorating, sustainable, economically viable, and life enhancing concepts.
Below are some of the themes we have explored in an effort to loosen the geometric and economic grip on the urban imagination:
The Sacred Origins of the City: City Plans through time
The City as Memory Theater: Timeless Cities - mythic knowledge transmitted through the ages through the 3D power of Architecture and Design
Regenerative Design: Nature/Architecture, the transformation of the Biosphere2 Project into an Eco-Village design
The Self-Sustaining City State: Energy Independence in Iceland
The Creative Green City: The Lighthouse Project in Glasgow
Findhorn: the enduring Art of Creating an Eco-Village
Magic Architecture: The Underground City of Damanhur, Italy
The Utopian Imagination: Poetry/Architecture/The Open City Project in Ritoque, Chile
Stewart Brand: The Long Now Perspective
While the filmmakers have been enormously pleased with the success of our previous documentary: Ecological Design: Inventing the Future, we are convinced that powerfully destructive forces like: over-population, unrelenting urban sprawl, generic design programs, threaten the promising conceptual breakthrough of recent times.
This quest is an example of heuristic filmmaking in search of a magic synthesis that inspires new insights and actions in support of making the World a more livable place.