still: Babeldom by Paul Bush

Movie/theater/music | NAi Rotterdam - Auditorium | 26/01/12-29/01/12

During the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam, the NAI showed the film Babeldom by the English filmmaker Paul Bush. Babeldom is a city so massive and growing at such a speed that soon, it is said, light itself will not escape its gravitational pull. How can two lovers communicate, one from inside the city and one outside? This is an elegy to urban life, against the backdrop of a city of the future, a portrait assembled from film shot in modern cities all around the world and collected from the most recent research in science, technology and architecture.

NAI launches UAR application

As of today, you can use the NAI’s free Urban Augmented Reality application on your smart phone to see how Rotterdam was, how it will be or how it could have been.
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Further reading

The NAI Collection has a variety of reference material relating to the Sonneveld House. This page contains a selection of the most important reference sources in the collection.
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