Welcome to LA

This is a 7min film documentary that tries to depict the lives of the homeless community in a place well-known as the centre of the movie-world - Hollywood. The phenomenon of the homeless community is a sad, avoided yet true part of LA. Yet, as much as people try to ignore and avoid them, there are groups of people that work beyond their duties to provide and care for the homeless. The nomadic roaming with trolleys, smells and streetscape the homeless creates do provide an interesting architecture setting for the city.

Produced and directed by myself and Ana Paula in 2006 for a film documentary class in SCI-Arc, we set off to discover along the lines of simulacra and hyperreality.