Gas Leaks - Dutch premiere

Producer, designer and Workspacer Manuel Toledo curates a film night especially for Thursday Night Live! From his fascination with architecture, culture and the creative industries, Toledo has established two international architecture film festivals in Santiago, Chile and London, UK. On 7 February, the film 'Gas Leaks' (2015) will have its Dutch premiere at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Gas Leaks Chile, 1972. During Salvador Allende’s Government the building in which the Third Session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD III) would take place, was built in a record time of 275 days. Gas Leaks delves into the convergence of 34 artists convoked to integrate their art to the building’s architecture, and what would later become of these pieces in Chilean history.

Manuel Toledo Manuel is a producer and independent designer graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He has worked as a designer for institutions, such as TUDelft in the development of a sustainable house in The Netherlands, and for the Urban-Think Tank in Zurich (ETH-Z) and Caracas on architecture projects in India and The Netherlands. Since 2012 he co-organizes the ArqFilmFest in Santiago, Chile, the first architecture film festival of Chile and Latin America. This festival has now reached its fourth successful edition and has grown with each iteration. Following his experiences in Santiago, he founded ArchFilmFest London, which first edition was in June 2017. In Rotterdam, as President of the Encuentros 2015 Conference, he enabled this gathering of the largest international network of Chilean researchers, entrepreneurs and professionals abroad to discuss the sustainable future of Chile.

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