Opera for a Melting City
2023 / Rotterdam, Netherlands
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 Official Selection
What happens if we continue living like we are right now? What happens if we keep on consuming, polluting and exhausting? What happens if we keep on indulging, spoiling and satisfying ourselves? We’re sweltering on summer days, sunbathing with the city as we’re welcoming climate change with open arms, for better or for worse. So what if, one day, we reach a tipping point, and it becomes so hot in the city, that everything and everyone just starts to melt?
This short film is a humoristic mirror into a future where this hottest day is reached. In this melting reality the girls, buildings and birds of the city are singing to us — “We tried to stop it, did we really try?” — as if people are actually listening to their requiem. Do you hear their voices? Or to put it bluntly: what are you doing to prevent our cities from melting?
Opera for a Melting City was screened as part of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2023.
Watch the film here ︎︎︎
