The second part of Paul Tunge and Egil Håskjold Larsen's meditative filmic portrait of modernist architecture, Bauta is the successor to last year's Ad Astra. Whereas the first film took Norway's brutalist churches as its theme, Bauta takes a lingering glance at government and administrative buildings—as well as public spaces—both inside and outside of the country; celebrating the poetics of everyday architectures, and the beauty to be found in buildings made by and for the people.

Cast in stone and concrete, these buildings share an uncertain disregard in the public eye—considered 'ugly' and worthy of demolition, Tunge and Larsen (the film's writer and director, respectively) make the case for preserving rather than neglecting these buildings. Stripping these structures down to what Bachelard once called the 'poetics of space'—removing human actors, and focusing almost exclusively on their structure and materials, the Norwegian duo argue that the film is sending love to buildings we might look over, that might be torn down, and those that may be allowed to rot; forgotten. 

—Special thanks to Julia Kidder for translation support