ADFF:Chicago starts tomorrow!

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January 30, 2024

ADFF:Chicago starts tomorrow, Opening night is Wednesday, January 31 and there are still some tickets available for most screenings. Along with our ticketed screenings, we are also offering a free program of 11 short films that will run on a loop throughout the festival. To see all the films, click here. To see the schedule, click here.

Some of the programs, speakers, and happy hours include...

Jan 31 - Opening Night

We Start With the Things We Find (Chicago premiere)

+ Reception 6:00-7:00pm

After the film, there will be a Q&A with LOT-EK co-founders Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, and filmmaker Tom Piper. Moderated by Monica Chadha.

7:00pm Sold Out

Get Tickets for 7:15pm

Feb 1

Clodagh is a film by Oda O'Carroll. After the Film, Clodagh herself will be at CAC for a Q&A with ADFF Festival Director Kyle Bergman. This program is co-presented by Nienkamper and Ruder Group.

Get Tickets for 6:00 pm

The first film in this program is Women in Architecture.

Feb 2

6:00pm The Genius of Place: The Life and Work of Geoffery Bawa + talkback with Cyrus Rivetna - Trailer - Get Tickets

6:15pm Women in Architecture + Clodagh + Q&A with Clodagh - Get Tickets

7:15-8:45pm Free Happy Hour for Ticket Holders

8:30pm Emotional Architecture 1959 + Soviet Bus Stops - Trailer - Get Tickets

8:45pm Point of Origin + veins - Get Tickets

Feb 3

Best in the World

Confronting the stark inequalities within modern Copenhagen, filmmaker Hans Christian Post reveals the unseen challenges of a city coined Best in the World.

+ Q&A with AIA Chicago Executive Director Jen Masengarb (live) and Director Hans Christian Post (via Zoom)

Get Tickets for 1:00pm

5:15pm The Mies Van der Rohes + Q&A with Director and Dirk Lohan - Trailer - Get Tickets

5:30pm My Architect (20th Anniversary Screening) - Trailer - Get Tickets

6:30-8:30pm Free Happy Hour for Ticket Holders

8:30pm Emotional Architecture 1959 + Soviet Bus Stops - Trailer - Get Tickets

8:45pm Modernism, Inc. + Q&A with Director - Trailer - Get Tickets

Feb 4

Modernism, Inc.

Architect Eliot Noyes is a transitional figure in the history of American design. Noyes brings a modernist approach to corporate America. His impact on companies like IBM and Mobil paved the way for Apple and many of the other design-conscious brands we know today

+ Q&A with director Jason Cohn, moderated by Kyle Bergman

Get Tickets for 1:45pm

Skin of Glass

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. The building is marked by controversy. 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 last half-century.

+ Q&A director Denise Zmekhol

Get Tickets for 2:00pm

The Mies Van der Rohes

In The Mies van der Rohes, 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.

+ Q&A with architect Dirk Lohan and director Sabine Gisiger

Get Tickets for 4:00pm

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