Today, there are more places to spend money on things, and fewer places to spend time with others. Through poetic meditations and frank conversations, these documentaries survey the financialization of cities.
At the expense of bingo halls, music venues and communities come data centres, shopping centres and luxury apartments. These developments embody the promise of progress: a future of stability and plenitude guided by developments in technology, industry and commerce. These films reveal the costs of this false promise. Against a behemoth of myth and money, what is the future of spaces that nurture something beyond profit?
Followed by an open discussion on the past, present and future of cultural and social commons.
Curated and presented by Miranda Mungai
