LOT-EK, WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND

WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND: the LOT-EK movie

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WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND: the LOT-EK movie

a documentary by Thomas Piper on our practice, questioning beauty and the impact of the shipping container

type

film

completed

2023

location

New York / Hudson / Naples / Johannesburg / Cape Akritas, cargo ship from Kingston Jamaica to Savannah Georgia

director

Thomas Piper

executive producer

Sherri Wolf

advisors

Jorge Fontanez / Thomas de Monchaux / Marques McClary

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impact & significance

upcycling is the art and science of repurposing, remaking, rethinking, reimagining. Of using old things in new ways. The shipping container is the thing that has captured our imagination for over a quarter-century: we have remade containers into homes, schools, galleries, libraries, and more. With hundreds of millions of obsolete and unused containers around the world, this is a new and necessary architecture to repair and regenerate the unnatural environment that we inherited. WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND is a feature-length documentary of our vision, and of the soulful lifelong partnership of the people, designers Ada and Giuseppe, behind it

related object:

shipping container