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London Premiere: Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel (15)

Architecture on Film

,Cinema 1
Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel

An intimate stay at NYC’s mythical Chelsea through a portrait of its last remaining residents, and ghosts of those past, as the building is transformed from artistic refuge to luxury hotel.

With delicate poetry and objective empathy Dreaming Walls accompanies the hotel’s handful of holdouts as they live amidst the noise and chaos of construction, as the iconic countercultural residence – immortalised by Warhol’s Chelsea Girls, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs, Patti Smith and more – has its storied interior gutted to make way for a very different clientele. 

Merging rich 16mm with historic archival fragments, and lingering, guided by a charismatic octogenarian choreographer, amongst its final tenants, an ode to the Chelsea, the people who make places, and the onward march of urban change.

Curated by the Architecture Foundation.

Tagged with: Cinema Architecture on Film

Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Qatar, 2021, dirs Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier, 90 mins

Cinema 1

Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.   

Address
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.