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Oct 30, 2017
The 9th annual Architecture & Design Film Festival starts this Wednesday, November 1st. We will screen 18 film programs which includes 34 feature-length and short films, four world premieres, six U.S. premieres, two New York premieres and two panel discussions.
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Made in Ilima - World Premiere Nov 3 @ 9:00 Q&A with Architects Michael Murphy, Alan Ricks and Director Thatcher Bean Purchase Tickets Nov 4 @ 7:30 Q&A with Director Thatcher Bean Purchase Tickets |
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Made in Ilima Director: Thatcher Bean 2017/ 65 min / USA Screening with Pisces Director: Brad Deal 2017 / 3 min / USA
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In the center of Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ilima community remains one of the most isolated in the world. They have coexisted with endangered wildlife in their surrounding forest for generations, but as the pace of development has increased, this fragile ecosystem has suffered.
In 2012 they partnered with the African Wildlife Foundation and the architecture firm, MASS Design Group to create a new conservation focused [read more]
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SUPERDESIGN - World Premiere Nov 4 @ 5:30 Purchase Tickets Nov 5 @ 4:30 Conversation with Director Francesca Molteni, co-curator Maria Cristine Didero, Evan Snyderman and Franco Audrito. Moderated by Felix Burrichter. Purchase Tickets |
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SUPERDESIGN Director: Francesca Molteni 2017 / 62 min / Italy
Screening with Ford House Director: Spirit of Space 2017 / 5 min / USA
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SUPERDESIGN is a film about the Italian Radical Movement in architecture & design in the 1960’s and 70’s. Through the words and stories of people who were part of that movement, we retrace the history and the heritage of the movement. They take us back to that time when everything seemed possible.
The mid-1960s represented a revolutionary time when the need for change has spread everywhere in the Western world and has pervaded [read more]
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Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse - World Premiere Nov 4 @ 4:45 Q&A with Director Henrique Pina and Producers Maria Joao and Joao Miguel Purchase Tickets Nov 5 @ 5:00 Q&A with Director Henrique Pina and Producers Maria Joao and Joao Miguel Purchase Tickets |
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Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse Director: Henrique Pina 2017 / 65 min / Portugal
Screening with Ghost Story Director: Sarah Elgart 2017 / 7 min / USA
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The work of the architects at Aires Mateus clearly shows contemporaneity - in its complexity and contradiction - a difficult condition to express in the realm of architecture. The extent of the work that they've been developing for many years confirms this. Their proposals develop a language with a strong universal impact. From this universality emerges an adaptation to the territory rooted in a clear Portuguese tradition. [read more]
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Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair? - World Premiere Nov 3 @ 8:30 Q&A with Architect Michael Sorkin, Director Mina Chow Purchase Tickets Nov 4 @ 2:45 Q&A with Architect Michael Sorkin, Director Mina Chow Purchase Tickets |
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Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair? Director: Mina Chow 2017 / 57 min / USA
Screening with The Future of Cities Director: Oscar Boyson 2016 / 18 min / USA
A Little Alcove: San Francisco Navigation Center Director: Julian Pham 2017 / 4 min / USA
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Daughter of immigrants, an idealistic architect struggles to keep her dream alive as she journeys to discover why America abandoned World’s Fairs. For generations of Americans, World’s Fairs captured visions of hope for the future as part of their collective memory. Mina Chow became fascinated with World’s Fairs when she saw pictures of her parents at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Beginning with their stories, Mina shares this legacy and the American values that inspired her to become an architect. [ Read More ]
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect - U.S. Premiere Nov 4 @ 4:15 Q&A with Architect Kevin Roche and Director Mark Noonan Moderated by Architect Kevin Kennon Purchase Tickets |
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect Director: Mark Noonan 2017 / 81 min / Ireland
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Still working at age 95, Pritzker Prize-winning, Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He’s reached the top of his profession, but has little interest in celebrity and eschews the label “Starchitect”. Despite a lifetime of acclaimed work that includes the Ford Foundation, Oakland Museum of California and 40 years designing new galleries for The Metropolitan Museum in New York,[read more]
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Building Hope: The Maggies's Centres - - U.S. Premiere Nov 2 @ 7:15 Q&A with Director Purchase Tickets Nov 5 @ 2:30 Q&A with Director and Architect Chris McVoy Purchase Tickets |
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Building Hope: The Maggies's Centres Directed: Sarah Howitt 2016 / 59 min / UK – US Premiere
Screening with Community by Design: Skid Row Housing Trust Director: Myles Kramer 2017 / 4 min / USA
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This fascinating story of Maggie's, a unique cancer charity, began life in Edinburgh in 1996. In 1993, Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was told she had three months to live. On hearing this devastating news she was left to sit on a plastic chair in a hospital corridor. The only place she could find to cry was a toilet cubicle. Her husband and co-founder Charles Jencks, said: [read more]
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Integral Man Director: Joseph Clement 2016 / 62 min / Canada
Screening with Cabin at the River Director: Silvia Zeitlinger 2017 / 8 min / Italy
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After Euclid, Toronto’s Jim Stewart is the most published mathematician in the world. Stewart spent a decade and a small fortune building the home of his dreams to reflect his two obsessions: curves and music. The completed home, called Integral House, provides him with both.
A stunning architectural gem of subtly curved wood and vast, evocative spaces, [read more]
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Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place - U.S. Premiere |
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Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place Director: Catherine Hunter 2017 / 59 min / Australia
screening with: A Room of their Own 2017 / 3 min / USA Winner of the People’s Choice Award from American Institute of Architects’ I Look Up Film Challenge 2017
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Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place explores the life and art of Australia’s most famous living architect. Murcutt’s extraordinary international reputation rests on the beauty and integrity of his work. With a swag of international awards (including the prestigious Pritzker Prize) Murcutt has literally put Australian architecture on the world map. And yet, by choice, he has never built outside his own country. [read more]
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Dries Director: Reiner Holzemer 2017 / 90 min / Belgium, Germany Screening with EX of In House Director: Spirit of Space 2017 / 6 min / USA
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For the first time fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year Reiner Holzemer documents the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections - the rich fabrics, embroidery and prints exclusive to his designs … as well as the emblematic fashion shows that bring his collections to the world and have become cult “must sees” at Paris Fashion Week. [read more]
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Program 4 The Diplomat, the Artist & the Suit Nov 2 @ 9:45 Purchase Tickets Nov 5 @ 4:45 Purchase Tickets |
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The Diplomat, the Artist & the Suit Director: Paul Goldman 2016 / 57 min / Australia
Screening with DeLightFuL – Design, Light, Future, Living Director: Matteo Garrone 2016 / 9 min / Italy
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We are invited into the extraordinary minds of Bill Corker, Barrie Marshall and John Denton, three intriguing and very different characters who have been friends since university. We learn how the trio formed Denton Corker Marshall and how their unique personalities and distinctive skills have coalesced into a unique working relationship that has created visionary buildings, not only in Australia but worldwide. Denton Corker Marshall has produced distinct, innovative [read more]
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The Neue Nationalgalerie - NY Premiere Nov 2 @ 7:30 Q&A with Director Ina Weisse and Producer Felix von Boehm Purchase Tickets |
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The Neue Nationalgalerie
Director: Ina Weisse 2017 / 49 min / Germany
Screening with Starship Chicago Director: Nathan Eddy 2017 / 16 min / USA
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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 [read more]
Photo: Mies van der Rohe © Rolf Weisse
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The Gamble House - NY Premiere Nov 4 @ 1:30 Q&A with Producer Lori Korngiebel and Ted Bosley Purchase Tickets |
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The Gamble House Director: Don Hahn 2017 / 58 min / USA
Screening with Before Design: Classic Directed by Matteo Garrone 2016 / 7 min / Italy
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The Gamble House is the incredible story of brothers Charles and Henry Greene who were pushed by their forceful father into a career in architecture only to design and build the most seminal and stunning Arts & Crafts house in America. The house, however, did not come without its price, both personally and professionally, for the Greene brothers, [read more]
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Getting Frank Gehry Nov 2 @ 9:30 Purchase Tickets |
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Getting Frank Gehry Director: Sally Aitken 59 min / 2015 / Australia
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The University of Technology, Sydney’s new business school, is Frank Gehry’s daring ‘Treehouse project’, otherwise known as the 'crumpled brown paper bag’ to its critics. At first sight, the school will almost certainly shock anyone [read more]
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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Nov 2 @ 9:15 Purchase Tickets |
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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Director: Matt Tyrnauer 92 min / 2016 / USA
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“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” – Jane Jacobs The film highlights Jane Jacobs’ magisterial 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities, in which she single-handedly undercuts her era’s orthodox model of city planning, [read more]
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REM Nov 3 @ 6:45 Conversation w Cathleen McGuigan and Nicolai Ouroussoff Purchase Tickets |
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REM Director: Tomas Koolhaas 2016 / 75 min / USA
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Architecture is usually filmed from the outside, as an inanimate object. The few depictions of interiors are usually limited to still or static images of an empty building, reducing it to no more than an icon or sculpture. REM, the documentary by Rem Koolhaas's son, uses an unconventional approach [read more] |
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Zaha: An Architectural Legacy Nov 4 @ 2:00 Purchase Tickets |
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Zaha: An Architectural Legacy Directors: Jim Stephenson & Laura Mark 2017 / 27 min / UK
Screening with Jean Nouvel: Reflections Director: Matt Tyrnauer 2016 / 15 min / USA
Queen of Asbury Park Director: Jillian Buckley 2017 / 10 min / USA
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A year after Zaha Hadid died, this film takes a look at Zaha’s career and legacy through five chapters and buildings which signalled significant progressions in her work. The film takes us from her initial drawings and paintings while at the Architectural Association to her first built project at Vitra, then on to the Stirling Prize-winning MAXXI which secured her place in the architectural canon, then to the London Aquatics Centre – a building which made her known among the public – and finally finishing with the Maths Gallery at the Science Museum, completed just months after her death. [read more]
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner Nov 4 @ 3:30 Q&A with co-directors Catherine Ledner and Roy Beeson Purchase TicketsNov 5 @ 3:00 Q&A with co-directors Catherine Ledner and Roy Beeson Purchase Tickets |
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner Director: Catherine Ledner & Roy Beeson 2017 / 47 min / US
Screening with Isay Weinfeld Director: Jillian Buckley 2016 / 9 min / USA
A Choice to Make Director: Eric Reinholdt & Trent Bell 2017 / 8 min / USA
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This documentary is an in-depth exploration of an influential New Orleans modernist architect, whose buildings for the National Maritime Union in the 1960s are now iconic figures in the NYC landscape. The film follows Albert Ledner’s journey from post WWII student of Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin to the present day where Ledner continues to work and innovate at the age of 93. With interviews and on-site tours of his buildings, Albert details his thoughts and personal inspirations for his varied and experimental designs.[read more]
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Columbus Director: Kogonada 2017 / 104 min / USA
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Columbus is the first feature length fiction film screened by ADFF. With its naturalistic rhythms, its focus on architecture and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada's Columbus unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. [read more]
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Panel 1 Van Alen Sessions: Infrastructure on Film Nov 2 @ 6:00 Purchase Tickets
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Join Van Alen Institute for the world premiere of Season Three of the short documentary series Van Alen Sessions, exploring the capacity and limits of rapidly changing technology in cities at a time of increasingly automated infrastructure, illuminated through the expert insight of designers and engineers and the stories of everyday people. These new episodes give viewers an up-close examination of how revolutionary robotic maintenance systems and retrofitted underground waterways are making our cities more productive and environmentally efficient.
Following the screening of the two short films, join us for a fast-paced conversation that digs deeper into how some cities are changing the narrative of our nation's crumbling infrastructure while engaging local citizens, including Nicole Flatow, Editor, CityLab; Molly Heintz, Chair, School of Visual Arts MFA Design Research, Writing and Criticism; and Lucy Wells, Director, Van Alen Sessions. Moderated by Steven Thomson, Managing Producer, Van Alen Sessions and Programs and Communications Manager, Van Alen Institute.
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Panel 2 What to do With 520 Miles of Coastline? Nov 2 @ 6:00 Purchase Tickets |
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With 520 miles of coastline, New York is a city of islands and water. When local manufacturing declined in the mid-twentieth century, much of the city's shoreline fell into disuse and disrepair. Recently, New York has begun to reclaim this vital asset, cleaning up its waterways, reopening shoreline access, and building waterfront parks across the five boroughs. The work is part of an important larger trend in social awareness and a focus on public space in urban design.
Join Arup and ADFF for a screening of the short film From Pier to Pier: New York City’s New Backyard followed by a panel discussion with leading members of the city's waterfront and public space communities.
Moderator Francesca Birks: Leader of Foresight + Research + Innovation for Arup Americas
Panel Captain Jonathan Boulware: Executive Director, South Street Seaport Museum Nancy Choi: Arup, Senior Engineer Archie Lee Coates IV: Co-founder and partner, PLAYLAB, INC; Rob Holbrook: Director of Planning, New York City Economic Development Corporation NYCEDC
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