In the organizer's words:

With introductory lecture!

Heinz Emigholz's documentary examines the links between architecture, ideology and violence in the 20th century. It shows Argentina's monumental "slaughterhouses" by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone in the Pampas, the controversial (partial) reconstruction of the Prussian Berlin City Palace and the colorful, utopian buildings by Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, Bolivia.

Emigholz stages how architecture functions as a symbol of political power, colonial structures, cultural ambitions and fascist aesthetics. Slaughterhouses of Modernity provides a provocative critique of modernity, which he exposes as an ideologically driven project that disguises colonial and capitalist violence under the pretext of art and progress. The film criticizes the fact that the supposed focus on the individual ultimately leads to the eradication of the individual in the service of market capitalism. Static shots, short polemical commentaries and accompanying voices of actors and architects turn the film into a visual analysis of the "slaughter" of modernity.

With an introduction by Prof. Dr. Franz Leithold, Institute for Media Cultural Studies at the University of Freiburg, to the supporting film Zeit Räume (2017) about the demolition and new construction of the Freiburg University Library.