Only 55 minutes long, Microtopia is appropriately minimal for its subject—the future of living in small and portable spaces. Swedish director Jesper Wachtmeister skips between Europe and North America (Athens, Isla Mujeres, Paris, Joshua Tree) to interview architects, artists, and a few cheerful eccentrics who are convinced that less ephemeral housing is not just a preference but will become an inevitability as the world keeps stumbling toward more people, more debt, more trash, and fewer natural resources to go around…
Microtopia plays Saturday, April 11, at 7 p.m. at Northwest Film Forum as part of the ByDesign Film Festival (April 10–14).
