Reviews & Quotes | Skin of Glass
Educational Media Reviews Online | Reviewed by Monique Threatt, Indiana University, Herman B Wells Library, Bloomington, IN
"Highly recommended for those interested in Activism, Architecture, and Latin American studies."
Alessandra Lancellotti, “Denise Zmekhol, Skin of Glass”, Ardeth, 15 | 2024, 203-204
"The documentary invites us to consider architecture in its social function and its ability to act as a critical mirror of the society that produced it."
University of Cincinnati | Flavia Bastos, Ph.D. Research Professor in the Arts and Humanities in the Art Education Program in the School of Art, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) and Provost Fellow
"An inquisitive examination of a masterpiece of Brazilian modernist architecture that unveils the country’s tensions and contradictions. A must-see that prompts reflection about how, and if, architecture can promote a more inclusive society."
SF Chronicle | Pam Grady
"Zmekhol easily could have made an activist documentary about society’s treatment of the unhoused, using her father’s building as a case study. But while that is part of “Skin of Glass,” it is only a byproduct of a daughter’s reckoning with family legacy and search for connection with her father. She joked that making the film is the most expensive therapy of her life."
Salem Film Fest
"The film delicately interweaves the personal and political in a poetic and cinematic meditation on displacement, inequality, and loss."
TedWomen 2019
A story of Brazil through a single iconic building