Citizen Architect: SXSW 2010 Accepted Film – Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbQXGMlPOQ

Snakebit is a 60-minute documentary film on the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio that he co-founded deep in poverty-stricken Hale County, Alabama. Mockbee was a celebrated architect, artist and educator who instilled his passion and philosophy in those he believed will become a new generation of 'citizen architects.' Snakebit is a rich, probing film that shows how a group of young architects' empowered by Mockbee's belief in making the world a better place' use their ingenuity and compassion to provide housing for people who their profession all too often overlooks. Guided by interviews with Mockbee, the film follows a twenty-six year-old first-time instructor at the Rural Studio as he leads a group of 20 year-old students in the process of crafting a custom home for their charismatic, destitute client, Jimmie Lee Matthews

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Citizen Architect: SXSW 2010 Accepted Film - Video