Pool, park, gym, supermarket, luxurious penthouse apartments, and cramped sleeping quarters at affordable prices. What happens when an entire community moves into a high-rise building? What is the relationship between power and verticality? And what is the future of high-rise construction?
We will discuss these questions with the film adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s sci-fi classic High-Rise—a sharp and humorous portrayal of the surveillance society, the culture of perfection, and alienation in the high-tech high-rises of modernity. Sink deep into your cinema seat and follow surgeon Robert Laing as he moves into a prestigious high-rise project, where the parties escalate and morality disintegrates in a mysterious parallel world, where class differences gradually become more pronounced.
The film is introduced by Mads Brügger, responsible editor-in-chief and CEO at Mediehuset Friheden.
ENTRANCE FEE: 110 kr. / 75 kr. for members of CAFx Community and Cinemateket. Send us an email to receive the discount code!
About High-Rise
DIRECTOR: Ben Wheatley
DURATION: 119'
YEAR: 2015
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
About CAFx Micro-Festival Vol. 2
How does our architecture shape the future? How can we create cities today that predict and anticipate tomorrow's problems? With six events spread over four days, we invite you to dive into the relationship between form and vision of the future through film premiers, unique screenings and lecture programs. Read more about CAFx Micro-Festival Vol.2 here.
