CORTE POR FACHADA

cxf: corte por fachada emerged as an umbrella project for film exhibition dedicated to exploring architecture, the city, and the built environment through cinema. Beyond the public debate surrounding housing, cxf is also deeply interested in cinematic form and in the different narrative, aesthetic, and technical devices that cinema has used over time to tell stories about how our environments are constructed, inhabited, and transformed.

The project’s name proposes a play between architectural and cinematic language. “Corte por fachada” is a term used in architecture to describe a type of sectional drawing that reveals the relationship between spaces, their heights, and the ways they are inhabited. At the same time, the idea of the “cut” refers to a fundamental gesture in cinema: editing, montage, and the decision of where to look. In this sense, the name synthesizes the project’s intention: to look at housing and the city from within, through cinema, as an exercise in critical and sensitive observation.