Making a Mountain

Name: Making a Mountain
Director: Rikke Selin Fokdal,Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Released: 2020

Rikke Selin Fokdal Kaspar Astrup Schröder 2020

Star architect Bjarke Ingels and his team have spectacular plans for a new waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen. A visionary project which combines waste management with a recreational urban space: CopenHill features a ski slope on top of the building. But it is going to be an uphill struggle…

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Running Time:

51 min.

Spoken Languages:

Danish, English

Subtitles:

English

Directors:

Rikke Selin Fokdal Kaspar Astrup Schröder

Producers:

Katrine A. Sahlstrøm, Kaspar Astrup Schröder

Cinematographers:

Henrik Bohn Ipsen DFF, Jutta Marie Jessen, Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Adam Morris Philp DFF, Søren Lind, Jakob Kofler, Georg Larsen, Niels Birkemose

Editors:

Rikke Selin Fokdal

Production Companies:

Good Company Pictures

Festival Participation

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam - 2020
Zagreb Design Art & Architecture Film Festival - 2020
Film a architektura / Kruh - 2020
ADFF NYC - 2020
Zurich Architecture Film Festival - 2020
Transitions FF - 2020

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