Pantalla Pavelló | Architecture in the Family: Skin of Glass by Denise Zmekhol

On the first Mondays of the summer months, we will be able to enjoy a new edition of the open-air cinema programme in which films are projected directly on the travertine wall.
A programme started in 2016 that already has a consolidated audience that enjoys a different kind of cinema accompanied by a presentation and a space for conversation to contextualise each of the films in the relationship between the built space, its limits and borders, and the inhabitants who reside in it.

Pantalla Pavelló presents three films that delve into the personal exploration of sons and daughters of internationally renowned architects of the 20th century:

Denise Zmekhol and Roger Zmekhol.

Georgia van der Rohe and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Stephen, Peter and Paul Böhms and Gottfried Böhms.

Architects with a strong and unique personality often inspire their children to follow in their creative footsteps.

In doing so, we find the dual desire to be like the father and to be critical and independent from him.

These three films present universal feelings that have given life to some of the most important architectural constructions of the last century and that have contributed to the most debate.

A debate that is also introduced into personal life because it affects it fully.

Through buildings, letters and memories, we discover personalities, conflicts, and the need for parents and children to assert themselves in their respective individualities despite the mutual respect they feel for each other.

The third film of the series is Skin of Glass by Denise Zmekhol:

SKIN OF GLASS follows director Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father’s most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo affectionately known as the Pele de Vidro (“Skin of Glass”), has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.

The film delicately interweaves the personal and political in a poetic and cinematic meditation on displacement, inequality, and loss. In the wake of a shocking tragedy that took place during the film’s production, Zmekhol connects with the residents of the Pele de Vidro and is brought face to face with the intimate, human consequences of an exploding population and global housing crisis.

Film file

Title: Skin of Glass

Director: Denise Zmekhol

Year: 2023

Timing: 89′

Place: Sao Paulo

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