The Space Expanding Room Media Kit
Co-directed by Liz Flyntz and Catalina Alvarez
A film about the traces of experiments in living and learning, told through the structures that both resulted from and shaped utopian ideals and bold new ways of life. This film is presented through 360 degree images that represent real spaces, vanished ruins, archival constructs, and purely imagined designs.
Sites we explore in the film include:
The Art Building at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH. The first and only publicly accessible building designed and built by the radical media art and architecture group Ant Farm in 1971-72.
An experimental inflatable campus “bubble” building at Antioch Columbia, constructed in 1972-73 with the help of Rouse Company architects and engineers, and destroyed by a storm the following year.
The Frank Gehry-designed former Rouse Company headquarters in Columbia, now a Whole Foods.
The interior of the Antioch-Columbia campus bubble, as photographed by the NYT photographer on opening day, 1973.
The Antioch-Columbia campus bubble at night. 1973.