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Oct 28, 2021
ADFF launched its hybrid season with an in-cinema screening of MAU at MoMA. After the film, Paola Antonelli (below left) moderated a conversation with Bisi Williams, Bruce Mau and one of the film's co-directors, Jono Bergmann (below right). Bruce Mau will also be coming to Toronto on Nov 3, to Vancouver via Zoom for opening night on Nov 10, and to DC on Jan 6th, 2022. |
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Upcoming Events
Tickets are now on sale for in-cinema screenings in Toronto, Vancouver and NYC.
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In Toronto, we’ll have three consecutive nights of in-cinema screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Films will also be available virtually for people throughout province of Ontario. To purchase tickets, click here.
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MAU
November 3rd @ 7:00 pm
After the screening, Bruce Mau and the film's director, Jono Bergmann will be on-hand for a conversation moderated by Juan Du, architect and dean of University of Toronto's School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, followed by a reception at Xando. (Film description below.)
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Beyond Zero
November 4th @ 7:00 pm
After the screening, the film’s director, Nathan Harvey will be in conversation with Mikhail Davis, Director of Technical Sustainability at Interface. (Film description below.) |
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Breuer's Bohemia
November 5th @ 7:00 pm
This amazing film will feature a special introduction by Architect Cameron Turvey. (Film description below.) |
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This will be our first full festival since the pandemic started.
Opening night will be MAU at the Imperial Theatre; the rest of the festival will be at the newly-renovated VIFF Centre. We’ll have 13 film programs with many Q&A’s. Presenting sponsors are Vancouver Special and All in Pictures; other sponsors are RJ Cross, Interface, Telefilm Canada, Tomo, Golden Properties and UBC School of Architecture.
To see the full schedule and to purchase tickets, click here. If you can’t make it to the theater, all the film programs will be offered virtually to anyone in the province of British Columbia. |
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New York, November 17-19
ADFF and Eventscape will be presenting three consecutive nights of in-cinema screenings at a specially-created 200-person venue at Eventscape’s impressive Long Island City facility. Tickets will go on sale Nov 1.
Breuer's Bohemia
November 17th @ 7:30
(Film description below.)
Beyond Zero
November 18th @ 7:30
Q&A with the film’s director Nathan Harvey
(Film description below.)
Holy Frit
November 19th @ 7:30
Q&A with the film’s editor
(Film description below.)
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This year, ADFF will offer 13 virtual film programs with Q&A’s. All the films will be available to watch any time, on any device throughout the US and Canada. Like last year, this virtual festival will take place over the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s a great opportunity to watch some amazing films about architecture and design with family and friends. Tickets will go on sale Nov 1.
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MAU
2021 / 76 min / Austria
Directors: Benji and Jono Bergmann
MAU is the first-ever, feature-length documentary about the design visionary Bruce Mau. The film explores his unlikely creative journey and ever-optimistic push to tackle the world’s biggest problems with design. Over the span of his career, this creative dark horse has completed the transformation from world-class graphic designer to designer of the world. From advising global brands like Coca-Cola and Disney to rethinking a 1000-year plan for Mecca (Islam’s holiest site), Bruce Mau is a pioneer of transformation design and the belief that design can be used to create positive change in our world.
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Breuer's Bohemia
2021 / 73 min / USA
Director: James Crump
Breuer’s Bohemia surveys the houses designed by iconic architect Marcel Breuer from the 1950s through the ’70s, many of which were commissioned by politically progressive clients. The film offers a unique glimpse of a twentieth-century milieu that produced an aesthetic, intellectual, and sometimes sybaritic community in a bygone period of American culture.
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Beyond Zero
2021 / 81 min / USA
Director: Nathan Harvey
Beyond Zero tells the story of how Ray Anderson turned Interface, the largest carpet tile company in the world, into a mission-driven brand, committed to sequestering carbon in its products and making factories that sustain and replenish the ecosystem.
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Holy Frit
2020 / 119 min / USA
Director: Justin Monroe
Holy Frit tells the story of Tim Carey, a talented, Los Angeles-based artist who, along with his company Judson Studios, bluffs his way into winning the commission to make the world’s largest stained-glass window of its kind. After a desperate search, Tim comes to learn about someone who might be able to help make his complicated design. As the documentary unfolds the clash of two big personalities slowly transforms into the forging of a lasting friendship. This story gives a universally fun, heartfelt, and sometimes comedic look into the drama of any human endeavor which is greater than the sum of its parts.
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