ADFF:Chicago Day 4

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February 3, 2024

Friday night, we had 4 packed screenings, 2 Q&As, and a super fun happy hour. Here are some pictures from yesterday.

ADFF:Chicago February 3

Presented by the Chicago Architecture Center

Film Guide | Schedule | Shorts

1:00pm - Buy Tickets

Best in the World

2022 / 56 mins / Denmark

Director: Hans Christian Post

Best in the World offers a closer look at the Danish capital’s journey from an industrial city on the brink of bankruptcy to the transformed Copenhagen of today. Director Hans Christian Post takes stock of the cost of this transformation, examining inequity within the city’s borders and in the surrounding countryside. The film asks us to consider who ultimately benefits from the desirable new city.

1:15pm - 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.

3:00pm - Buy Tickets

Rehab (from rehab)

2023 / 86 min / France, Italy

Directors: Louise Lemoine and Ila Beka

Through a series of vignettes of patients going through physical rehabilitation at Swiss Architects Herzog & De Meuron’s REHAB center in Basel, Switzerland, Rehab (from rehab) demonstrates how a building itself can contribute to patients’ recovery stories.

3:15pm - Buy Tickets

Life, Assembled

2022 / 70 min / Belgium

Director: Elodie Degavre

Architect and director Elodie Degavre looks back on a little-known chapter of Belgian Architectural history – the story of a post-modern enclave in an otherwise traditional Belgian countryside. Along the way, we see rural houses with stark steel exteriors, learn of a building designed by medical students, and hear from legendary architects like Simone and Lucien Kroll.

5:15pm - SOLD OUT

The Mies van der Rohes

2023 / 80 min / Switzerland

Director: Sabine Gisiger

Filmmaker Sabine Gisiger introduces us to the many women who impacted the life of world-renowned architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Drawing on a private archive of footage, photos, and documents, the film retells the story of this iconic architect as remembered by his eldest daughter, Georgia.

Following the screening will be a Q&A with Sabine Gisiger and Dirk Lohan. This ticket includes a private happy hour reception in the ADFF lounge at 7:15pm.

5:30pm - Buy Tickets

My Architect

2004 / 116 min / US

Director: Nathanial Kahn

In My Architect, director Nathanial Kahn takes us on a heartbreaking and humorous journey of his attempts to reconnect with his deceased father, renowned architect Louis I. Kahn. In a documentary with all the emotional impact of a dramatic feature film, Nathaniel’s journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art, and an exploration of life itself.

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

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

Modernism, Inc.

2023 / 75 min / US

Director: Jason Cohn

Architect Eliot Noyes is a transitional figure in the history of American design. Noyes' impact on companies like IBM and Mobil paved the way for Apple and many of the other design-conscious brands we know today. Modernism, Inc. follows Noyes’ career up to a time when disruptive designers of the early 70s began pushing back against the status quo.

Following the screening will be a Q&A with Jason Cohn. This ticket includes a private happy hour reception in the ADFF lounge at 7:15pm.

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