This film interrogates a recent housing subdivision on Perth’s suburban fringe, and is concerned with an extreme form of consumption driven development. Specifically it seeks to raise questions regarding what makes an authentic architectural object, searching for ways to operate architecturally within the milieu of rampant late capitalism that shapes this landscape. We do not reject the aesthetic realities of such an environment, rather we search for ways to operate within a system that is “profoundly frightening and yet somehow incredibly optimistic.” The image of Cottesloe Beach embedded within the kitchen splashback of the ‘Cottesloe Beach’ display home at Alkimos Beach, hints at a Dali or Magritte painting – an action of surrealist dislocation, a condition prominent Australian architectural icon Robin Boyd would have declared typically ‘Featurist.’ We ask what potential this kind of dislocating collage may hold for architects hoping to reach a broader audience? This film literally does what Boyd warns us against – “picking up disconnected ideas,” wherever we find them.
Cottesloe Beach in Alkimos Beach was filmed and produced by Felix Joensson, Jason Macarlino and Leo Showell.
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