This film, produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses on Long Island, commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the influential American public administrator Robert Moses.
The story suggests that the bridges were designed expressly to prevent the passage of buses, thereby only allowing people who could afford to own a car to access Long Island’s leisure spaces.
The questions that the story raises engage with issues of secrecy and control, the morals of power and the effects of technology.
