ADFF 2023/24 Season Continues

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Subject: ADFF 2023/24 Season Continues

January 9, 2024

Tickets are now on sale for ADFF:Chicago, presented by the Chicago Architecture Center!

In addition to 20 feature-length programs, there will also be a selection of 11 short films showing on a loop throughout the festival. The shorts cover a wide range of topics and places– a MASS Design Group project for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund campus in Rwanda, the lives of Portuguese cobblestone pavers, Moshe Safdie's guiding principle ("for everyone a garden"), and more. The program also features three Chicago-based shorts by local filmmakers Spirit of Space, Tom Rossitier, and Christopher Hoerdemann. All 11 films are free and open to the public every day of the festival.

Click here to view the entire schedule.

Some of the program highlights include...

Double Feature: Emotional Architecture 1959 & Soviet Bus Stops

The two films in this double feature demonstrate the power of architects and designers to create beauty even in the context of authoritarian regimes.

Friday 2/2 at 8:30pm + happy hour reception at 7:15pm

Saturday 2/3 at 8:30pm + happy hour reception at 6:45pm

Rehab (from rehab)

Through a series of vignettes of patients going through physical rehabilitation at Swiss Architects Herzog & De Meuron’s REHAB center in Basel, Rehab (from rehab) demonstrates how a building itself can contribute to patients’ recovery stories.

Saturday 2/3 at 3:00pm

Sunday 2/4 at 4:15pm

Double Feature: Clodagh & Women in Architecture

Clodagh tells the story of how courageous personal decisions shaped the life of the international design icon by the same name. Women in Architecture opens a window into the professional and personal lives of three female architects who have changed their field.

Thursday 2/1 at 6:00pm + Q&A with Clodagh

Friday 2/2 at 6:15pm + Q&A with Clodagh and a happy hour reception starting at 7:15pm

This program is co-presented by Nienkamper

Modernism, Inc.

Architect Eliot Noyes is a transitional figure in the history of American design. Noyes' modernist approach impacted companies like IBM and Mobil, paving the way for Apple and many of the other design-conscious brands we know today.

Saturday 2/3 at 8:15pm + Q&A with filmmaker Jason Cohn and a happy hour reception starting at 6:45pm

Sunday 2/4 at 1:45pm + Q&A with filmmaker Jason Cohn

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Subject: ADFF 2023/24 Season Continues