'my playground: a film about movement and urban space' by kaspar astrup shröder
all images courtesy objective cinema


created in collaboration with danish architect bjarke ingels, 'my playground' by
copenhagen-based filmmaker kaspar astrup shröder is a 90-minute film that explores
the ways in which traceurs - practitioners of parkour - interacts and engages with
the built environment.

mainly set in copenhagen, the film follows danish performance group team jiyo
as they utilize and exploit bjarke's architectural creation, including the acclaimed
residential project, 'mountain dwellings'. the result is a dynamic recording of
the urban space, pushing and illustrating the potential of the modern city.

MY PLAYGROUND WS TRAILER from Objective Cinema on Vimeo.

whenever you do a building or an urban space you contribute to the future life of the city
and in doing that you contribute to the future of the culture and the lifestyle of the inhabitants
and showing architecture not as some static art form with the typical architectural photograph that
focuses only on how light falls on a wall. 'my playground' is a film of course about parkour but is
also very much how public life and architecture are intricately linked. architecture observes human life
and attempts to accommodate it then human life evolves and misinterprets the architecture to expand
the realm of possibility and in turn architecture observes the evolved human life and it is this continuous
loop: building and living, building and living. -bjarke ingels



film still




'mountain dwellings' by BIG / JDS in copenhagen, denmark



inside 'mountain dwellings'