Big Time

Big Time is an architecture documentary directed by Kaspar Astrup Schröder (Waiting for the Sun).

Bjarke Ingels started out as a young man dreaming of creating cartoons. Now, he has been named “one of architecture’s biggest stars” by The Wall Street Journal. BIG TIME follows Bjarke during the course of 5 years (2011-2016), while he struggles to finish his biggest project so far. We are let into Bjarke’s creative processes as well as the endless compromises that his work entails, and we are on the side when his personal life starts putting pressure on him, too. Bjarke Ingels’ company Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has been given the task of designing and building one of the skyscrapers, which will replace the Twin Towers, which collapsed on the 11th of September 2001 in Manhattan. While Bjarke is creating a building, which will change the New York skyline, he is hit by health-related issues. The Film offers an intimate look into the innovative and ambitious Danish architect, whom the entire world is celebrating as a genius.

“Architecture has always fascinated me,” says Schröder. “Nevertheless, I have had a hard time being fascinated by films about architecture, because I felt like they were either just pretty pictures or geeky anthropological films directed towards architects. I have wanted to convey architecture in a different and more cinematic way, making it about universal feelings and the people involved. ”

Big Time is rated PG.