Subject: ADFF:Chicago Day 3

February 2, 2024


Last night, we had four great screenings. If you missed the screening of Clodagh, don't worry, you still have another opportunity to see the film and meet Clodagh tonight at 6:15. It's nearly sold out, so get your tickets soon.


Our Saturday screening of The Mies Van Der Rohes is sold out but there are still tickets for the Sunday screening.

Enjoy a few photos from last night...

Q&A with Clodagh after the film about her riveting life journey from fashion designer to interior designer.

Conversation with Michelle Woods (Assistant Project Director, City of Chicago Department of Assets, Information and Services) and Kris Sorich (Senior Landscape Architect, Chicago Department of Transportation) following the screening of House of Adaptation.

ADFF:Chicago February 2

Presented by the Chicago Architecture Center

Film Guide | Schedule | Shorts

6:00pm - Buy Tickets

The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa

2023 / 80 min / Sri Lanka

Director: Afdhel Aziz


Director Afdhel Aziz introduces us to five of Geoffrey Bawa’s projects through his own personal connection to the work. We encounter an ocean fortress, a jungle palace, groundbreaking private homes, and the country estate where Bawa’s ashes are buried.

6:15pm - Buy Tickets

Women in Architecture

2022 / 20 min / Switzerland

Director: Boris Noir

&

Clodagh

2022 / 50 min / Ireland

Director: Oda O'Carroll


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


Following the screening will be a Q&A featuring Clodagh.

8:30pm - Buy Tickets

Emotional Architecture 1959

2022 / 29 min / Spain

Director: León Siminiani

&

Soviet Bus Stops

2022 / 56 mins / Canada, Denmark

Director: Kristoffer Hegnsvad


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


This ticket includes a private happy hour reception in the ADFF lounge at 7:15pm.

8:45pm - Buy Tickets

Point of Origin

2023 / 45 min / Netherlands

Director: Frans Parthesius

&

veins

2023 / 45 mins / Romania

Directors: Laurian Ghinițoiu and Arata Mori


Both of these films feature the materials as main characters. In Point of Origin, Architect Rem Koolhass used the plasticity of concrete to build a sliver of a house into a hillside. In veins, we follow massive slabs of marble on their journey from a quarry in Portugal to the exterior of the Pearlman Arts Center in NYC. 


This ticket includes a private happy hour reception in the ADFF lounge at 7:15pm.


Powered by:
GetResponse