Unsafe by Design / Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR)

14:30 - 15:30

Studio / 7th Floor

Short Movies & Documentaries Selected by Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR)

Unsafe by Design

From city streets, to nightclubs and even shared housing, the shorts in this second-day program curated by AFFR expose and question the politics embedded in design, revealing how urban spaces can be spaces of exclusion and vulnerability but also of emancipation and resistance.

 

Once upon three femisites – Regner Ramos, Josh Anton, José Vélez-Arocho, Puerto Rico, 2025, 10’
A virtual monument to the final spaces, Alexa Luciano, a black trans woman in Puerto Rico, visited before being murdered. Combining poetic storytelling and spatial analysis, the film exposes how physical and digital environments enable violence, urging us to confront architecture’s complicity and the urgent need to remember and resist.
4,6 km, Alexander Auris, Norway, 2021, 14’
Six strangers set out on a 4.6 km walk through Brussels. Through their experiences, we are invited to reflect on the city as a landscape of constantly shifting visibility and question how public space influences the way we act and shapes queer lives.
Movement, Benjamin Muasya, Denmark, 2025, 21’ — Trailer
Nightlife is where we choose who we want to be. Free from social pressure, the dancefloor is a space for freedom, difference and human connection. Movement is a vibrant manifesto for the power of nightlife.
The Southern Thruway, Susanna Tomassini, The Netherlands, 2023, 14’ — Trailer
Due to the housing crisis, living with many people is often the only option. Yet in this togetherness lies the potential for something beautiful. Artist Susanna Tomassini explores the possibilities of collective living, especially the sharing of work, belongings and each other.

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