Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel directed by Maya Duverdier, Amélie van Elmbt will open the Seoul International Architecture Film Festival which will take place from September 6 – 17, 2023 in Seoul, Korea.

The legendary Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture and an artists’ refuge for over a century, has been under renovation for the past eight years and will soon reopen as a luxury hotel. 51 people, now all in their later years, still live amidst the scaffolding. Caught between fear and frenzy, some residents prepare for imminent upheaval as other protest against the hotel’s administration or hole up their rooms.

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