Screenings
KUMU documentary
30.09–28.10.2026
Revolving around the binding question “How much?” the Tallinn Architecture Biennale the Biennale expands outward into the discipline, the city and the broader systems on which architecture depends. Next to exhibitions, a symposium, competitions, workshops and discussion two screenings will take place in collaboration with KUMU, showcasing veinsby Laurian Ghinitoiu and Arata Mori, and El Ariston by Gerardo Panera.The two independent films together unfold a trajectory, firstly tracing the extraction of 30.000 tons of marble in Portugal and its route to become a translucent façade of the Perelman Performing Arts Centre at the World Trade Center in New York, and secondly picking up the history of Marcel Breuer’s now-abandoned El Ariston in Mar del Plata, Argentina, situating its story within the broader transformation of the surrounding neighbourhood form a destination for the aristocracy to one of mass tourism. The films further reveal hidden infrastructures behind architecture: extraction processes and territorial transformations that shape the built environment long before and long after construction.
Session 1, Wednesday, 30.09
Film: Laurian Ghinitoiu & Arata Mori, Veins (doc, 2024, Romania/Japan, 48’)
Veins documentary- inside the Perelman Performing Arts Centre.
The film invites viewers to reflect on the transformative journey from a raw, anonymous block of marble to a meticulously crafted building. Extracted from a Portuguese quarry, processed in four factories around the European continent, and intricately transformed into the translucent façade of the Perelman Performing Arts Center, veins documents the transformative journey from a raw, anonymous block of marble to a meticulously crafted building. Through it, the marble touches different human and industrial processes across various geographies and socio-political contexts.
Session 2, Wednesday, 28.10
Film: Gerardo Panero, The Ariston (doc, 2024, Argentina, 67’)
El Ariston building by Marcel Breuer.
In 1947 Marcel Breuer visited Argentina and designed The Ariston in the city of Mar del Plata. With the passing of time, the Ariston will be forgotten and its slow destruction will begin. Its history leads us to think about the importance of architectural heritage.