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Tomas Koolhaas Starts Kickstarter for "REM" Documentary, Interviews Kanye

Tomas Koolhaas Starts Kickstarter for "REM" Documentary, Interviews Kanye

Last year, just around this time, AN sat down with Los Angeles-based cinematographer Tomas Koolhaas to discuss his highly anticipated film, REM, about his Pritzker Prize-winning father. Casting aside the dusty architectural documentary formula of conceited talking heads and lifeless shots of seemingly uninhabited buildings, the younger Koolhaas set out to explore the “human condition” around some of his father’s most high profile projects.

Now the film is nearly complete, but with grant money running dry, the filmmaker has turned to Kickstarter to pull in the final funds to push through the post-production process, and has released two new clips to promote the project: the film’s first official trailer and an interview with “the Rem Koolhaas of hip-hop,” Mr. Kanye West.

As Tomas Koolhaas told AN last year, “my concept has always been more focused on human interaction with the work, just because I find that more interesting, and it’s the least explored aspect.” From “free runner” bouncing off the walls of the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal to Chinese migrant workers constructing the CCTV building in Beijing and a homeless man spending his days within OMA’s Seattle Central Library, Koolhaas’ film seeks to capture a variety of modes of interaction that people and buildings engage in. By turning his attention towards these real-life stories that highlight the diverse intersections of human life and architecture, Koolhaas hopes to capture varied social, physical, and cultural experiences of a building instead of the same armchair theories that are fed to us in most design documentaries.

And what does Kanye West have to do with all of this? Why don’t you just watch and see for yourself.

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