It’s true that an NC-17 rating can make it difficult for a film to make money at the box office; major chains often won’t even carry them, seeing them as a like-for-like with the X rating it was introduced to replace. While that seems less of an issue in the streaming era, NC-17 still carries a stigma.
I sat with Christian Kerez in a Milanese apartment, in which he houses his home and architecture office. In the sequence of spaces one tiny room has six doors and a single door divides 3 zones of the flat. The art in his practice is to simply describe the medium. In doing so Christian Kerez offers a zero-degree architecture, where space is revealed and not designed.