The story by JG Ballard « The Concentration City* », written in 1967 is the story of a boy living in an over populated densely built city where the architecture influences the inhabitants way of being. He is looking for “free space” to build a machine that will allow him to soar and fly, bird wings and open space, things which disappeared in the evolution of the urban sprawl. This story offered a way of getting into the city and imagining San Paulo. The main character is scouting the territory for openings in the vista of buildings, looking : as does the camera-eyes in the silent video The sky is my ceiling.
Keja Ho Kramer
Director
The Last Black Man in San Francisco69%
Can You Keep a Secret?63%
Sophie's Choice73%
Genius64%
Marty Supreme73%
The Walk69%
The Fountainhead68%
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas78%
The Rocketeer64%
The Wanderers69%
Raging Bull79%
Brooklyn72%
Vivarium60%
The Goldfinch71%
The Hurricane74%
Priscilla67%
The Thirteenth Floor70%
Cloud Atlas68%
Room79%
Secretariat74%