BUILT ON NARROW LAND: FILM
Built on Narrow Land is a film that looks at a moment in Cape Cod when the spirit of European modern architecture inspired a group of bohemian designers – professionals and amateurs both – to build houses that married principles of the Bauhaus to the centuries-old local architecture of seaside New England. Then in 1959, with the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore the fate of these houses suddenly hung in the balance: houses built after 1959 became the property of the park on the death of their owners. Through the points of view of a few key characters, most notably Ruth Hatch (homeowner with a lifetime lease) and Bill Burke (Park Ranger in charge of cultural affairs), the film reveals the privilege of building on virgin landscape, the impact of eminent domain, its effect on people whose houses will have to be given to the federal government and, literally, given back to the land.
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