‘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

my playground: a film about movement and urban space film still

my playground: a film about movement and urban space ‘mountain dwellings’ by BIG / JDS in copenhagen, denmark

my playground: a film about movement and urban space inside ‘mountain dwellings’

my playground: a film about movement and urban space

my playground: a film about movement and urban space

my playground: a film about movement and urban space

my playground: a film about movement and urban space

my playground: a film about movement and urban space