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Dirk Peuker, BETTINA NÜRNBERG

Flat Roofs for Mussolini

Doc. expérimental | 16mm | couleur | 20:0 | Allemagne, Italie | 2012

The experimental film work ?Flat Roofs for Mussolini? talks about the Italien Rationalism and Fascist architecture at Lake Como and the buildings by Guiseppe Terragni, who was an important pioneer of this style and tried to persuade the fascist regime to adopt his architecture as an official style. During a creative period lasting only 13 years, Terragni produced a body of work unique in terms of consistency and density. His buildings conform to the modern and are characterised by a reduction to elementary geometrical basic forms. While his buildings now serve as an important reference for architects such as Peter Eisenmann, they are also glorified and their political dimension is downplayed. (Text by Magdalena Magiera)

Dirk Peuker born 1970 in Friedrichroda, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. He studied Experimental Film at the university of the Arts Berlin since 2009 he teaches Film & Video at the Berlin Weißensee academy of art. 2006 Residency grant at the Villa Minimo, Hannover 2007 DAAD travel grant 2008 postgraduate grant of the Free State of Thuringia, 2009 NaFöG grant by the Berlin City Council Bettina Nürnberg born 1976 in Mannheim, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. She studied Film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg 2006-07 Funding for woman artists 2008 Film Culture Fund of the Free State of Thuringia 2009 Stiftung Kunstfonds, artist fund