What can we say? We're pretty excited to see our film with Hungarian subtitles at the 7th Budapest Architecture Film Days, March 6th at the Contemporary Architecture Centre of Budapest.
You may not realize how many titles our documentary about Christiania has had over the years. When we first started out in 2006 we were calling it "Coming of Age in Christiania". Very Margaret Mead. For a very brief period it was called "Normalizing Christiania". There's really not much to say about that. Then for quite awhile it was called "Christiania - Our Heart is in Your Hands". I loved this title, but it proved to be too similar to the title of the seminal Danish docume
Creating a poster for a film can be difficult. How can we sum up what the film is about in a simple but striking image? We knew that we wanted to show the roughness and the beauty of Christiania in one image and Richard came up with the idea of hands holding a heart. This image has some signifance for us because an early title for our film was, "Christiania - Our Heart is in Your Hands" (see more about this in the post, "Name that film"). Chris Zeigler made the felt heart. It