Subject: ADFF:Chicago - Saturday 2/4

Feb 4, 2023

Today is our most packed day of the festival, with 7 screenings and one in-person Q&A after the 1:15 screening of Under Tomorrows Sky.  The 12 short films are playing all day on the first floor of the Chicago Architecture Center.

1:00 PM Alice Street (2020) - Buy Tickets

Alice Street is a compelling story of how artists in Oakland came together with a community to battle the pace of gentrification in their neighborhood.

1:15 PM Under Tomorrow's Sky (2021) - Buy Tickets

Under Tomorrow's Sky focuses on the influential architect and urbanist Winy Maas' passion for finding innovative solutions for the city of the future. 

3:15 PM Committee of Six (2022) & Segregated by Design (2019) Double Feature - Buy Tickets

+ A Q&A with Committee of Six actors as well as the film's director, Fred Schmidt-Arenales

These two films examine the discriminatory practice of redlining and its impact on black communities.

3:30 PM A World to Shape (2022) - Buy Tickets

A World to Shape profiles Nienke Hoogvliet and Dave Hakkens, two contemporary Dutch designers who represent a new environmental awareness in the field.

5:15 PM Robin Hood Gardens (2022) - Buy Tickets

Robin Hood Gardens tells the story of a controversial East London housing project that garnered divisive responses from residents and international architecture critics.

5:30 PM GES-2 (2021) - Buy Tickets

GES-2 documents the process of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop transforming a 20,000-square-meter former power plant in Moscow into a new, global art institution providing cultural energy for all.

7:45 PM Building Bastille! The Tangled and Improbable Story of the Opera Bastille (2021) - Buy Tickets

Building Bastille! tells the comedic, dramatic, and tangled story of modern history’s most remarkable case of mistaken identity and seized opportunity.

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