Trip

Trip is inspired by the main oeuvre of architect Raine Karp – the concert hall designed for the city of Tallinn between 1975-1980. Considered the most important building realized in Estonia, Linnahall is a time capsule preserving the utopian ideas of centralized power and of egalitarian modernism; and an example of how architecture can stir public emotions in our times of corporate dominance.
A new episode in the Emotional Architecture series, Trip introduces Linnahall as an archaeological accident, as a stranded space ship and as a shrine for Soviet Union nostalgia. The voice of the architect, breaking facts about his ambiguous profession, the hallucinogenic wandering around the building, the nightmarish exploration of its guts – all are pleading for architecture as one of the drugs of this time, when drugs are part of life style. Tripping through architecture can be as fascinating as a night out – and potentially as dangerous.
The film is paying tribute by treatment and sound to Andrei Tarkovsky, and to his famous Sci-Fi failure – Solaris. While Linnahall was built for the glorification of the Moscow Olympics of 1980, some 500 m from the construction site Tarkovsky was working on his master piece – Stalker.