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Tlatelolco
January 1 2011 (almost 14 years ago)Rating
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- Director: Lotte Schreiber
- Writer: Lotte Schreiber
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 1 h 15 m
- Country: Austria
Rather than focusing on the monuments and representational architecture of the Plaza, Tlatelolco concentrates on the neighboring residential high-rises. Built in the 1960s under the supervision of modernist Mario Pani, Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco is the largest apartment complex in Mexico City. Realized at the zenith of Mexico’s economic boom, Pani’s vision of a “vertical city” beyond class distinctions has itself been shaken up on multiple occasions. Schreiber and cameraman Johannes Hammel capture the fading of an urban architectural utopia.