ADFF:Chicago Day 5

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Subject: ADFF:Chicago Day 5

February 4, 2024

Saturday was packed with many sold-out screenings. Here are some images from yesterday and below is a list of films you can see on the last day of ADFF:Chicago 2024. See you at the theaters!

Angela Esposito (Senior Director of Learning and Community Engagement, CAC), Dirk Lohan (Architect), Sabine Gisiger (Director of The Mies van Der Rohes).

Thorsten Nolle (Architect), Sabine Gisiger (Director), Maria Elena Bornox, Pascal Bornox (Consul General Consulate of Switzerland)

On stage: Jen Masengarb (Executive Director, AIA Chicago). On screen: Hans Christian Post (Director, Best in the World).

Reed Kroloff (Dean of Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture), Kyle Bergman (ADFF Festival Director), Cathy Lohan (Interior Designer), Michael Wood (Senior Curator, Chicago Architecture Center).

Jason Cohn (Director of Modernism, Inc.), Denise Zmekhol (Director of Skin of Glass).

ADFF:Chicago February 4

Presented by the Chicago Architecture Center

Film Guide | Schedule | Shorts

1:45pm - 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.

2:00pm - Buy Tickets

Skin of Glass

2023 / 90 min / US

Director: Denise Zmekhol

When director Denise Zmekhol revisits the architectural masterpiece of her late father, a modernist skyscraper in São Paulo, Brazil, she discovers it is occupied by hundreds of unhoused people. Through the stories of people with a passionate connection to her father’s work, Zmekhol helps us understand the building as a reflection of Brazil’s political and economic turmoil over the last half-century.

Following the screening will be a Q&A with Denise Zmekhol.

4:00pm - Buy Tickets

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.

4:15pm - 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.

6:30pm - Buy Tickets

The Power of Utopia – Living with Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh

2023 / 84 min / Switzerland

Directors: Karin Bucher, Thomas Karrer

When Le Corbusier designed Chandigarh, he imagined a just city that would allow for harmonious interaction between its residents and the natural environment. It remains unclear if Corbusier’s design was a success or a failure. Directors Karin Bucher and Thomas Karrer follow four cultural producers in Chandigarh through their lives and work, asking what can be gleaned from attempts at utopia.

6:45pm - 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.

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Subject: ADFF:Chicago Day 5

Angela Esposito (Senior Director of Learning and Community Engagement, CAC), Dirk Lohan (Architect), Sabine Gisiger (Director of The Mies van Der Rohes).

On stage: Jen Masengarb (Executive Director, AIA Chicago). On screen: Hans Christian Post (Director, Best in the World).