COUNTER COMMUNITIES is a documentary film (video/DVD, 59min) on five alternative architecture projects in the USA that all share common origins in 'Utopian tendencies' of the 1960s/70s.

COUNTER COMMUNITIES ist ein Dokumentarfilm (Video/DVD, 59min) über fünf alternative Architekturprojekte in den USA, die alle auf "utopische Tendenzen" aus den 1960er/1970er Jahren zurückgehen.

Credits: Concept, Camera and Interviews: Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser Editing: Oliver Croy © Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser, 2003 COUNTER COMMUNITIES shows projects by Paolo Soleri | ARCOSANTI (1970-) | Arizona Lama-Foundation (1968-) | Taos, New-Mexico Mike Reynolds | Earthships (1975-) | Taos, New-Mexico Nader Khalili | Cal-Earth/Superadobe (1976-) | Hesperia, California Ted Hays | Dome Village (1996-) | Downtown Los Angeles, California Screenings: 2006 Kunsthalle Overgaden, Kopenhagen [LINK] Independent – Unplugged (Festival by Iris Andraschek and Hubert Lobnig) [LINK] 2005 Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts), Wien [LINK] Architekturforum Ostschweiz, St. Gallen [LINK] Kuva (Academy of Fine Arts), Helsinki [LINK] 2004 Architekturforum Oberösterreich, Linz [LINK] Kunsthalle Overgaden, Kopenhagen [LINK] Festival Transmediale, Berlin [LINK] 2003 Festival Artimage, Architekturfilmbiennale, Graz [LINK] BüroFriedrich, Berlin [LINK] c-level, Los Angeles [LINK] Cubitt Gallery, London [LINK] Supported by Kunstfonds Bonn IKEA-Stiftung

> Short summary / Kurzbeschreibung COUNTER COMMUNITIES (PDF file, 87 KB) Contact: Oliver Croy Oliver Elser