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In addition to the 17 film programs at ADFF:2020, there will also be over 40 special guest speakers who will participate in the film introductions and post-screening Q&A’s. Included will be:
- Bjarke Ingles, in a Q&A following the Danish film, Making a Mountain
- Glenn Murcutt, in an introduction for the Australian film Richard Leplastrier: Framing the View
- Paola Antonelli and Toshiko Mori, then Sharon Prince and Andy Klemmer will introduce the
French/Japanese film Tokyo Ride. After the film, Ryue Nishizawa, and the directors Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine will participate in the Q&A moderated by Joseph Grima.
- Wendy Goodman from NY Magazine will moderate the Q&A for A Machine to Live In.
- Annie Block from Interior Design will be in conversation with the director of
Charlotte Perriand, Pioneer in the Art of Living.
- Diana Budds from Curbed will be in conversation with John Nakashima after
George Nakashima, Woodworker.
- Stefan Novakovic from Azure will moderate the Q&A after Magical Imperfection.
- Alex Bozikovic from The Globe and Mail will be in conversation with Lulu Wei, director of
There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace
Ticket One Sale Now
General admission tickets: $10
Fistful (5 tickets): $40
All Access pass (allows you to watch each film one time): $110
Student discounts are available to those with an active student ID.Gift Certificates are also available so your friends and family within the US and Canada can share in the experience. |
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The designer and architect Charlotte Perriand was a highly creative figure who left her mark on the 20th century. Free-spirited and politically engaged, she designed revolutionary furnishings and participated in the invention of modern dwellings that were in harmony with both their inhabitants and their environment.
From her avant-garde battles alongside Le Corbusier in the 1930s to her experience in Japan and affirmation of a lifestyle based on openness and flexibility, this film, in the the shape of a notebook of memories, gives us an up-close and personal look at a life filled with passion and creativity, and opens us to reflections about contemporary society, as seen through the eyes of an exceptional figure.
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| | | | | | A Machine to Live In
2019 / 87 mins / USA and Brazil
Directors: Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
A Machine to Live In is about the imaginative and material processes of building one’s utopia. The film documents the history of the highly-controlled modernist planning in Brazil alongside radical projects in cult and mystical architecture. The film’s attention radiates outward from Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa’s capital, Brasília, to the flourishing landscape of UFO cults, pyramids, monuments, and futurist projects.
The film unfolds through the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector’s writings on the inauguration of Brasília in 1961 and subsequent interviews with Niemeyer. Her literature describes a fraught ideology embedded in the city’s concrete design and the film attempts to show how the desire for myth and reason can be expressed in building utopian spaces. It collects vignettes and stories from architects and builders as they describe their ideal cities, both real and transcendent. |
| | | | | | George Nakashima, Woodworker
2020 / 115 mins / USA
Director: John Nakashima
Language: English
Celebrated woodworker George Nakashima became famous for his slabs of "imperfect" wood, full of natural holes. The film reveals the personal journey he took to become one of the leading figures in the American craft movement. Nakashima's grandfather was a samurai. George was a nisei (a first generation child born in the US), and spent time in a brutal internment camp with his wife and young daughter during World War II.
After finishing his Masters of Architecture at MIT during the Depression, he set out on a decade-long journey seeking a reason for his existence. His journey took him to Europe, to northern Africa, and to Asia where he used his training and worked as a modern architect. In Japan, he absorbed the aesthetic of Zen and the spirituality Shintos find in nature. In India, he found the key to creativity in a Yogi's ashram. The seeker returned to America to become a woodworker and use all he had learned from his travels. His distinctive ways of thinking about nature and integrating it into his woodworking led Nakashima to became a leader of the American craft movement. Today, 30 years after his death, his influence and finely-crafted designs continue to inspire architects and designers around the world.
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| | | | | | Frey II: The Architectural Interpreter
2020 / 83 min / USA
Director: Jake GorstWatch Trailer
In 1939, Swiss-born Corbusian architectural envoy Albert Frey embarked on a decades-long journey of discovery. His world travels and love of nature would lead him to carve out a new style of modernism, leaving its indelible mark on the desert community of Palm Springs, California. With never-before-seen archival films, photographs and interviews, Frey II: The Architectural Interpreter continues to reveal the mystique of an influential architectural master.
This is the second of a two-part documentary. The first part, Frey I: The Architectural Envoy was finished in 2018. Both films, by the director Jake Gorst and produced by Design Onscreen are available to see with the same ticket. |
| | | | | | Magical Imperfection
2020 / 58 mins / Canada
Director: Scott Calbeck
Language: French with EnglishWatch Trailer
Magical Imperfection tells the inspirational story of world-renowned Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama. Imprisoned in his own country during the 1940s because of his race, Ray found the strength to combat injustice by devoting his career to social justice and equality.
Moriyama joined with Ted Teshima in 1970 to form Moriyama & Teshima Architects. Ray has applied his visionary architectural approach to numerous landmark projects including the Bata Shoe Museum, Saudi Arabian National Museum, Ontario Science Centre, Scarborough Civic Centre, Toronto Reference Library, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo and the Canadian War Museum. Such highly visible projects consistently earn praise for their attention to the needs and purposes of the people who use them. He has received some of the highest professional honors including the Confederation of Canada Medal, the RAIC Gold Medal, honorary degrees from ten Canadian universities, and the Order of Canada.
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