Mikropolis (Small Towns) – Olympic Village: The Fence

Mikropolis (small towns) is a series of documentaries focusing on different areas of Attica, within or beyond the city limits of Athens. For each area one word – an architectural feature – has been chosen to characterize it, both visually and socially. This word guides our gaze, our choice of characters, and the elements that make up the portrait of each area. The word for the episode on the Olympic Village is “the fence.” Teenagers strutting along, break dancing, smashing street lights and cutting exhaust pipes. How can you fence in so much energy? The teenage protagonists seem ill at ease in the pre-constructed environment they have been placed to live in. The fence as a limit. Wheelies and drag racing to the limit. Everyday fights to the limit. Living at the city limits, on the fringes of society.