Soviet Bus Stops
“There’s a bus stop I want to photograph.” This may sound like a parody of an esoteric festival film, but Canadian Christopher Herwig’s photography project is entirely in earnest, and likely you will be won over by his passion for this unusual subject within the first five minutes. Soviet architecture of the 1960s and 70s was by and large utilitarian, regimented, and mass-produced. Yet the bus stops Herwig discovers on his journeys criss-crossing the vast former Soviet Bloc are something else entirely: whimsical, eccentric, flamboyantly artistic, audacious, colourful. They speak of individualism and locality, concepts anathema to the Communist doctrine. Herwig wants to know how this came to pass and tracks down some of the original unsung designers, but above all he wants to capture these exceptional roadside way stations on film before they disappear.

similar movies
De Gaulle bâtisseur
2020
genre:Documentary
History
TV Movie
From the West
2016
genre:Documentary
In Residence: Ricardo Bofill
2014
genre:Documentary
Barcelone vu par Ricardo Bofill
2003
genre:Documentary
Barbarossa: Hitler Turns East
2007
genre:Documentary
History
Berlin Babylon
2001
genre:Documentary
History
This is How the Obelisk Was Born
1936
genre:Documentary
Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets
2019
genre:Documentary
History
TV Movie
Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée
2017
genre:Documentary
Fernand Pouillon, Le roman d'un architecte
2003
genre:Documentary
Architecture And Power
1993
genre:Documentary
Wilczy szaniec
2014
genre:Documentary
Little Potato
2017
genre:Documentary
Oscar Niemeyer, an architect commited to his century
2000
genre:Documentary
Soviet Hippies
2017
genre:Documentary
Inside Grand Central
2006
genre:Documentary
In Between Mountains and Oceans
2014
genre:Documentary
Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good
2019
genre:Documentary
Betliarsky park a kaštieľ
1989
genre:Documentary
Kaštieľ v Strážkach
1991
genre:Documentary