AND THEY LIVE IN ROW HOUSES

Austria, United Kingdom 2025 — Directed by: Julia Haugeneder, Matteo Sanders — 15 min — Spoken language: German — Subtitles: English — Production Company: Donkey Films — Producers: Julia Haugeneder, Matteo Sanders

A flm about the reciprocal relationship between architecture and social norms and the desire for spaces other than the nuclear family.

A materialist view in relation to architecture and the nuclear family shows that reproductive labour is production work that has been outsourced to the private sphere. In addition to concepts of love and care, a standardized image of socially accepted cohabitation also guides our longing to live in two to three-generation families. They promise peace and a retreat from the intense world outside the nuclear family. It becomes clear that capitalism has a specific way of organizing living together. Our film focuses on potential possibilities for liberation that can be examined in the history of social constellations.
For this film, Simon Nagy was invited to write an essay on the role of architecture in the sheer insurmountability of the socially dominant organization by nuclear families under capitalism.

Writer: Simon Nagy. Camera: Konrad Milan. Sound: Julia Haugeneder, Simon Nagy, Matteo Sanders. Editing: Julia Haugeneder, Matteo Sanders. Production: Julia Haugeneder, Matteo Sanders. Producer: Julia Haugeneder, Matteo Sanders.

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