Any plans to be in Jerusalem on July 9 and 10? If you happened to see Sukkah City, the 2010 exhibition in Union Square of twelve winning sukkahs, the world premiere of this feature length documentary film at the Jerusalem International Film Festival is not to be missed. It chronicles the design project (conceived by bestselling author Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with Einstein), produced by Roger Bennett and directed by filmmaker Jason Hutt), which challenged architects and designers to rethink the sukkah, an ancient structure whose parameters are laid out in the Bible but which has become, over time, pretty uninspiring and box-like. The film's cast includes architects, scholars, artists and critics including Thom Mayne, Paul Goldberger, Ron Arad, Maira Kalman, and Michael Arad.
