“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film, but Canadian Christopher Herwig’s photography project is entirely in earnest, and likely you will be won over by his passion for this unusual subject within the first five minutes. Soviet architecture of the 1960s and 70s was by and large utilitarian, regimented, and mass-produced. Yet the bus stops Herwig discovers on his journeys criss-crossing the vast former Soviet Bloc are something else entirely: whimsical, eccentric, flamboyantly artistic, audacious, colourful. They speak of individualism and locality, concepts anathema to the Communist doctrine. Herwig wants to know how this came to pass and tracks down some of the original unsung designers, but above all he wants to capture these exceptional roadside way stations on film before they disappear.

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels...
Pessac, Quartiers Modernes Frugès: The camera goes from living room to living room, from yard to bat...

Considered the most intimate portrait of life & work of American photographer Nan Goldin. Collaborat...

As a letter to her son, the filmmaker testifies her experience as a photographer aboard the Aquarius...
The Hopperstad stave church is a marvelous, iconic architectural statement from the fjords of Norway...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

The British architect based in Stockholm looks back on major projects of a long career inspired by E...

The Russians are interested in us. There is a great concern that the British State has been compromi...

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S...

Follow the animated journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. The oral and ...

Brazilian architecture in the 20th century influenced generations of architects worldwide. But there...

A poet among architects and an innovator among educators, John Hejduk converses with poet David Shap...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...

Big Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years wh...