Built To Last

Built to Last is a series of ten short experimental films exploring the fate of grand Soviet-style buildings and monuments erected during the communist era (1945-89) in Central and Eastern Europe. Moving along a spiral from Moscow to Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Pristina, Tirana and Sofia, the film mixes and fuses the past and present conditions of administrative buildings, museums, monuments, working class homes, communist party headquarters, hotels, and panel housing projects. The series of vignettes examines the changes in public attitudes to these relics of our recent past, which were built with the intention that they would last forever.