HU (2012)

A symmetrically divided building: on one side, an important public hospital, on the other, a bewildering ruin. On the horizon, Rio de Janeiro, public health, education and Brazil’s aged modern project. Shot entirely in the monumental and only partially occupied modernist edifice of the University Hospital of UFRJ. A material metaphor of the Brazilian public sphere and its political maze. A synthesis architecturally expressed of the modernist utopia/dystopia.

Released Jan. 27, 2012 78 min None+

Genres: Documentary, History

Keywords: tmdb.hospital, tmdb.modernism, tmdb.decadence, tmdb.symmetry

Country: Brazil
Production Country: Brazil
Languages: Portuguese