Film info: Radiant City

Film Information

Original Title	Radiant City
English Title	Radiant City
Directors	Gary Burns Jim Brown
Country
Year	2006
Format	Digibeta
Colour	Color
Duration	85 min

Cast:

Daniel Jeffery, Bob Legare, Jane MacFarlane, Ashleigh Fidyk, Curt McKinstry.

Production:

Guión: Gary Burns, Jim Brown
Fotografía: Patrick McLaughlin
Montaje: Jonathan Baltrusaitis
Producción: Shirley Vercruysse, Bonnie Thompson, George Baptist

Synopsis

The urbanizations, the suburbs, the new conglomerates of streets and houses: the habitational alternative for families that don’t have access to the urban property they’d like, or that simply don’t want to live in the city, but neither in the country. These sets of constructions with no identity or history can be found in many countries, mainly around big US or Canadian cities. And on rush hour, the amount of cars that flow through highways is enormous. From home to the car and from the car to home, and then the other way round. Urban sociability and exchange? None. Communal learning? Nothing. Architectural beauty? Not only absent, but also denied by the horrendous shopping malls. Burns and Brown’s intelligent, humorous and terrifying documentary film circles around a family living in a suburb of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) and various specialists in town planning that criticize this way of life that, if the end of oil threat maintains proof of its truthfulness, has its days numbered.