UKRAINE FUNDRAISER Preview Screening: "What Shall We Do With These Buildings?"
Hosted by Past Master, Peter Murray OBE
Preview Screening: "What Shall We Do With These Buildings?" hosted by Past Master Peter Murray
Join New London Architecture (NLA) at RIBA on Wednesday 11 May for a preview screening of Jonathan Ben-Shaul’s documentary-dance film which explores the legacy of Soviet architecture in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Doors and bar opens 6.00pm, event starts at 7.00pm. Bar closes 9.30pm.
What Shall We Do With These Buildings? investigates the dynamic impact of communist architecture on the people who live in them and use them. The film was shot in September 2021, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Hosted by Peter Murray, the film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Jonathan Ben-Shaul, Editor and Co-producer Louis Norris, and a panel discussion. They will be joined on Zoom by the Head of Kharkiv School of Architecture.
This event is free to attend but please register below.
About the Director
Jonathan Ben-Shaul is a movement and theatre director from London. A graduate of Cambridge University and L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, before the invasion, Ben-Shaul taught at the Kharkiv School of Architecture. What Shall We Do With These Buildings? was the result of a two month residency supported by Kharkiv Literary Museum, during which Ben-Shaul undertook an investigation into the living relationship that we have to our built environment. This was a theme that he felt had particular resonance in Kharkiv and the Soviet modernist architecture in the city.
About the Editor and Co-producer
Louis Norris is a filmmaker from London. His short films have been shown at festivals worldwide (most recently at the BFI in June, as part of the London Short Film Festival), with one award (Best UK Film, Dirigo Film Festival, Bristol, 2019). Another short was given a feature in Film International last year. He’s worked in cinema programming (for the Garden Cinema, London) in digital art production (ZINC, Marseille), and as a projection designer in theatres in the United Kingdom and Iceland. He’s currently doing a master's in Political Sociology at the London School of Economics while working as a freelance filmmaker and editor.