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DESIGNING UTOPIA:

THE CHANDIGARH EXPERIMENT


How does design and architecture influence us. Can we design us to a positive behaviour, a future of beauty and social justice? In Chandigarh, by he foohills of Himalaya they constructed a city from scratch, an experimental breeding ground and a landmark for the new, independant state of India. 50 years later we went here to so if they succeeded.


The film is in the development phase and the video below expresses the current status of the project.

CREDITS:


Format: Open. It can be a 1 TV hour documentary or develop into a serial.

Director: Morten Vest

Producer: Robin Schmidt

Photographer: Martin Kloeft

Supported by: The Danish Arts Council

DESIGNING UTOPIA, CROWDFUNDING VIDEO


When first starting up the project we did a short promotional video in order to raise funding and awareness about the project. We were more successful on the awareness part ;-)

Anyway, here is the video, reflecting our ideas and intentions at an early stage:

FILM, STILLS + GRAPHIC DESIGN

MORTEN VEST

ELLA: A REMIX OF THE CUBAN WOMAN


Documentary film project in development. The below trailer is an experiment on the form: mixing the 1964 documentary Ella by Theodor Christensen with new shots from today.