Revision of Architecture, Sustainability, and Local Identity - film and discussion about the future of architecture and urban development from April 15, 2008 - 10:58am

Friday, May 9, 7:30 pm

FILM SCREENING

Lecture Theatre

Radiant City: A Documentary about Urban Sprawl

Followed by a Q & A with directors Gary Burns and Jim Brown

Venturing into territory both familiar and foreign, directors Gary Burns and Jim Brown turn the

documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life in the Late Suburban Age.

Burns and Brown rummage through a toybox of cultural references, from Jane Jacobs to The

Sopranos, to create a provocative reflection on why we live the way we do. Riffling off sitcoms and

reality TV, they play fast and loose with a range of cinematic devices to consider what happens when

cities get sick and mutate.

Radiant City was recently awarded the Genie for Best Documentary.