LEFT BEHIND

Monika Koeck
LEFT BEHIND
architecture by Anthony George Lyster

Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2009
Duration: 2'20''

LEFT BEHIND is an emotional portrait of Liverpool's famous Tobacco Warehouse (1901); a grade II listed building that is considered being the largest brick building in the world. Today, the industrial warehouse lies empty in a vast and abandoned dock landscape. The expressive space portrayed in the film is inhabited by an enigmatic figure that, in terms of its scale and appearance, seems to live in a symbiosis with the building and its site. LEFT BEHIND offers a mysterious "vision" of a warehouse that is today a "shadow of itself". The short film circles around the themes of presence/absence, empty landscapes, beauty/grace and, by demonstrating that the site is not as "left behind" as perhaps thought, offers a hopeful glimpse into the future of its development.

After a career as a professional ballet dancer, Monika Koeck studied, practiced and taught architecture in various countries. She has a professional degree in Architecture from Augsburg, Germany and an M.Phil. from The University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Monika held teaching and research positions at the University of Oklahoma, USA and at the University of Cambridge, and is currently teaching at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is director of the Liverpool-based film/architecture production and post-production company CineTecture. Her creative work was part of major international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale in Architecture (2000) and the German IBA Exhibition (2004, 2005).

Additional credits:
Production: Richard Koeck

Video selected by Image ARCHIVE http://www.image-web.org/archive for VISIONS, the 9th edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival http://www.beyondmedia.it.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Architecture
• City
• Video
• BEYOND
• MEDIA
• Image
• ARCHIVE
• Festival
• VISIONS

[TheRoc71]

i like to get copy of cut seme left behind 2 amazing grace where the man cry

[Mersey26]

beautifully made clip marking the grandeur of this old building shamefully left in its state, not only that it reflects the dock history of this once great port,