Owen Luder

Architect Owen Luder’s most famous building, the Get Carter car park in Gateshead, is scheduled for demolition. This is nothing new for the once acclaimed 81-year-old Brutalist pioneer. His concrete giant, the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, is already down, and his other iconic Gateshead structure, the Dunston Rocket, faces a similar fate.

‘Get Luder’ charts his last-ditch bid to force a reappraisal and reinvention of the car park made famous by the Michael Caine gangster film as demolition day looms, and views a man struggling to retain his pride and dignity as he watches his work destroyed in his own lifetime.

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About the Filmmakers
Jonathan Carr (Director)
Jonathan retrained as a filmmaker at the New York Film Academy following 10 years working as a news and features journalist on a number of national titles including the Guardian, the Mirror and the Herald. After gaining practical and administrative experience working in the film industry in London, he moved back to his native Glasgow to set up Plainview Films, an independent video production company that develops and produces short and feature projects and aims to promote and enhance independent filmmaking in Scotland. Jonathan has written and directed a number of short films, some of which have won awards at Filmaka.com and been selected for screenings at various film festivals in the UK and worldwide. Get Luder is Jonathan’s first documentary project, and was made under the Bridging the Gap scheme, run by the Scottish Documentary Institute. He is currently working on a number of short documentaries and a feature documentary to be set in Japan.

Chris Marks (Producer)
Chris splits his time between his job as news editor of The Scotsman newspaper with working on documentaries. Get Luder was his first project as producer, and he and Jonathan worked closely with the Scottish Documentary Institute and Associate Producers, Quark Films.