What should we do with our dead? Incinerate them? Bury them? Make them disappear? Keep them nearby and visit them?
LE CIMETIERE D'IGUALADA
un film de Richard Copans - ArchitectureWhat should we do with our dead? Incinerate them? Bury them? Make them disappear? Keep them nearby and visit them?
What should we do with our dead? Incinerate them? Bury them? Make them disappear? Keep them nearby and visit them?
We are 70km from Barcelona, behind Montserrat. Here as in the rest of Spain, the dead are not buried, they are piled into niches, superimposed tombs. The new Igualada cemetery was to be the work of a couple of Catalan architects at the start of their careers, Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos. A surprising project because it merges into the countryside. The land has been dug out and fitted with strange alignments of oblique concrete walls, covered with earth and planted. Is it a building? Or rather a thoroughfare? A place that is the richer for being unfinished? A strong memorial across the architecture of the 20th century and landscape, between Le Corbusier and Richard Long.
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- Directed by
- Richard Copans
- Collection
- Architectures
- Year
- 2010
- Genre
- Architecture
- Editing
- Nicolas Milteau
- Author
- Richard Copans
- Photography
- Richard Copans
- Sound
- Elena Coderch
- Producer
- Les Films d'Ici - Richard Copans
- Broadcaster
- Arte
- Partners
- Arte France & CNC
- Format
- Vidéo
- Manager of production
- Clémentine Noël
- Available version
- VF
- Length
- 26'
- International sales
- Arte Distribution
- Video publisher
- Arte Vidéo
- Distributeur
- Arte Distribution
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