ADFF:CHICAGO Feb 1-5 at CAC

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Subject: ADFF:CHICAGO Feb 1-5 at CAC

January 26, 2023

ADFF:CHICAGO

February 1-5 at the Chicago Architecture Center

It took a while, but ADFF is coming back to Chicago. We are partnering with the Chicago Architecture Center to present 15 film programs, many Q&As, and a fun opening night party!

We will have 3 theaters at CAC as well as an ADFF Lounge. The Skyscraper Gallery will be fully transformed with beautiful fabric walls by Molo and a set of silent disco headphones for each audience member. In the Chicago Gallery, we will show a selection of 12 ADFF short films from past years of the festival. The short film program is free and will be playing the entire time, so you can pop in and out.

Fashioned Reimagined

Wednesday, Feb 1 - Opening night will be the Chicago premiere of Fashion Reimagined. After the film, everyone is invited to the opening night party!

Click here to buy opening night tickets!

Under Tomorrow's Sky

Thursday, Feb 2 - All 4 films screening on Thursday are Chicago Premieres. After the 5:30 screening of Under Tomorrows Sky, ADFF festival director Kyle Bergman will host a Q&A with the film's director, Jan Louter, who coming in from Rotterdam. Also screening on Thursday is Concrete Landscape, a film about Alvaro Siza's only building in Brazil, Beyond the Life of Forms, featuring Carlo Scarpa and Aldo Rossi, and Bawa's Garden, a road movie searching for the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa.

Building Bastile!

Friday, Feb 3 - Friday's screenings include the super fun Building Bastille! The Tangled and Improbable Story of the Opera Bastille. A half-billion-dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge, an impossible deadline, two warring political titans, and a blind competition – what could go wrong? GES-2 is a unique and beautifully crafted film that explores the meaning of art through the creation of a Renzo Piano project in Moscow. Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens explores what makes Athens such a vibrant city. The answer is architectural and surprising.

A World to Shape

Saturday, Feb 4 - There are seven films to choose from, and 12 short films to see! A few of the film highlights include: Robin Hood Gardens, which had its world premiere at ADFF:NY and has been winning prizes at festivals around the world. A World to Shape highlights two millennial Dutch designers who are determined to have a positive environmental impact. Alice Street is about how a community in Oakland was brought together by public art and stayed together to slow the rapid pace of gentrification.

Maija Isola – Master of Colour and Form

Sunday, Feb 5 - The festival's final day features many films with female protagonists and directors, including Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design, Maija Isola – Master of Colour and Form, Fashion Reimagined, and Bawa's Garden. The day begins with a program on how institutional racism and how it affects our cities. The double feature of Segregated by Design and Committee of Six will be followed by a conversation between Committee of Six's director and some of the cast members.

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