Lost & Found Films; This Must Be The Place.



A series of short films, by Lost & Found, study the notion of a home. One such film follows Alan Hill, a caretaker that lives in a ruined factory in Detroit.



He acknowledges that there are aspects of his life that are fairly unconventional; no hot water, no newspapers delivered to his front door, and the fact that he can park his car inside his home. However, he finds there are many reasons for a happy existence living in a ruin. Apart from practical reasons (no mortgage or bills etc), he has time for reflection on life as he thinks they are. Quite simply; as long as the ruin suits his needs, he is happy.



Ruins are buildings that people have allowed to dissapear into history. By living in ruins, the building has a new reason for existing. Buildings are revived and kept in the ‘present’ rather than allowing them to disintegrate.



The day to day life inside the ruin is intrinsic to the building; a symbiotic relationship is developed between the architeture and the occupier. The ruin suits the needs of the resident, and the resident allows the building to exist in the present day.



However, there is undeniably a disattatchment to the rest of the world, but perhaps this is not a always such a bad thing.