Architecture on Film

In The Pit (En El Hoyo)
28 September 2009 6.30pm

In The Pit (En El Hoyo)

Winner of Best International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, this intimate and affecting look at the construction crew behind Mexico City’s Periferico Freeway charts the social reality at the core of over 10 miles of soaring reinforced concrete. Through objectively compassionate portaits of a miscellaeny of characters such as the wolf-whistling El Voyeur and the brusquely realist El Grande, the film charts the coarse life and camaraderie of the workers involved in the creation of a huge slab of the city, both floating in the air and submerged in the pit. The private life of urban infrastructure envisioned through a uniquely personal take on direct cinema, full of humour and grace.

Mexico 2006, Dir Juan Carlos Rulfo, 84 min

Trailer:

This screening will be introduced by Gareth Jones, Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Tickets

£7.50 online
(£9.50 full price)

AF Members
£6.50 online
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Concessions £7.50

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Venue

Screen 2,
Barbican Centre

(via The Architecture Foundation)