Subject: ADFF 2017 Program 3

Architecture & Design Film Festival 2017 - Program 3
Program 3
The Neue Nationalgalerie
Director: Ina Weisse
2017 / 49 min / Germany – NY Premiere

Screening with 
Starship Chicago
Director: Nathan Eddy
2017 / 16 min / USA

Nov 2 @ 7:30 w/ Q & A

Nov 4 @ 9:15


The Neue Nationalgalerie
Director: Ina Weisse
2017 / 49 min / Germany – NY Premiere
The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an epoch-defining structure by the architect Mies van der Rohe. It was opened in 1968, shortly after his death. Nearly 50 years later, the director Ina Weisse sets out to examine the period during which this unique edifice was constructed. She is the daughter of the architect Rolf Weisse, who once worked in the offices of Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. In numerous interviews with her father and Mies van der Rohe's grandchild Dirk Lohan, along with the architect David Chipperfield – who is commissioned with renovating the building – and others, Ina Weisse explores the question of how the Neue Nationalgalerie came into existence, and what sort of World view is brought to expression by Mies van der Rohe's building.

Photo: Mies van der
Rohe © Rolf Weisse
Starship Chicago
Director: Nathan Eddy
2017 / 16 min / USA
They called it Starship Chicago: architect Helmut Jahn’s kaleidoscopic and controversial State of Illinois Center, which shocked the city when it opened in 1985 and may not be long for this world. Today the building is a run-down, rusty shadow of its former self, occupying a lucrative downtown block and deemed expendable by the cash-strapped state legislature. Three years after the stinging loss of brutalist icon Prentice Women’s Hospital, Chicago preservationists, along with the building’s original champion, Governor James R. Thompson, are gearing up for a major battle to save the city’s most provocative architectural statement.
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