
Point of Origin: Building a House in Austria
Showing information
Played at
- Dave Barber Cinematheque
- March 21st, 2024 at 12:00 pm
- Free
- Directed by Franz Parthesius
- 2023, Switzerland, 45 minutes, English/German (with English subtitles)
An international tech entrepreneur purchases an impossibly narrow piece of steep mountain slope in Austria, where he grew up. The building site will only allow for a 4-meter-wide house. This challenge sparks the interest of well-known architect and founding partner of OMA Rem Koolhaas, but Rem has not built a private house since his acclaimed House in Bordeaux over 20 years ago. The building process was captured by photographer and filmmaker Frans Parthesius, using primarily a simple static security camera. Slowly, the house reveals itself as the film reveals clues about Koolhaas’s process and his reaction to the client.
Sponsored by Bockstael Construction.