Architecture on Film: En Construcción (Work in Progress)

Director José Luis Guerín creates magical cinema that takes a keen look at the transformation and inhabitation of a specific urban site in Barcelona’s Barrio Chino En Construcción was voted 5th best film of the decade (2000-09) by Nicolas Azalbert of Cahiers du Cinema. A lyrical and humorous cinematic observation of a neighbourhood, its inhabitants, its history and its future, En Construcción, won the Fipresci, Best Film and Special Prize of the Jury at the San Sebastian Film Festival at its premiere. Barbican Curated by the Architecture Foundation