Buildings Remember People
Director and Producer David Shapiro
Buildings Remember People an unorthodox Holocaust film about a building in Phoenix, sets memory to work to stop neo-fascists from seizing power in America. Shot against the 2024 election, it interweaves two stories: an Arizona synagogue built by survivors, and a German artist’s ongoing monument to Nazi victims across Europe.
David Shapiro
Director, Producer
David directed, wrote, produced Untitled Pizza Movie (2021), a seven-part documentary. Sundance 2020. Metrograph (2021). Missing People (Altavod, 2020), Best Documentary Hamptons International Film Festival (2015), Special Jury award at DOCNYC (2015). MP screened in numerous domestic and international festivals including Mumbai and Doc10. Finishing Heaven (HBO, 2009). David received an Emmy Award nomination (2010). Keep the River on Your Right (IFC, 2001). Independent Spirit Award (2001); Jury Award IDFA (2000): Best Documentary Hamptons (2000); Critics Award Los Angeles Film Festival (2000). Academy Award shortlist. Played theatrically in forty American cities. David’s visual art has been exhibited extensively in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including shows at MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum. His work is included in many prominent collections. His work has been profiled on NPR, in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, Art Forum, the Wall Street Journal, El Pais, among numerous other publications.