Subject: ADFF:DC is happening now!

January 27, 2023


ADFF:DC opened last night with a packed house and a fantastic audience. We screened Alice Street, a film about artists coming together to battle gentrification in an Oakland neighborhood. After the film, audiences heard from the director, Spencer Wilkinson, along with local experts on housing and public art. If you missed opening night, Alice Street will also screen on Sunday afternoon.


Here's a taste of last night's festivities:

ADFF:DC takes place at the beautiful National Building Museum.

ADFF:DC attendees enjoy the opening night Community Activism Panel.

Panelists from left to right: Eliane Asal (Strategy Director at Gensler Baltimore), Ryan Patterson (Public Art Project Manager at MSAC), Lailan Sandra Huen (Housing Activist and Educator), and Spencer Wilkinson (Director of Alice Street).

Attendees mingle with complimentary food and drinks before the screening.

Tonight, we have a full evening of films that cover everything from redlining and public housing projects to iconic female designers and little-known architectural heroes.


Happy hour starts at 5:00 PM. The films will be shown in 2 screening blocks, and you can choose one screening per block. During the intermission, there will be food and drinks available.

Block 1 is a choice of the following 3 film programs:

Committee of Six

6:00 PM - Segregated by Design and Committee of Six (Double Feature)

Two films about the discriminatory practice of redlining and its impact on black communities.

+ A conversation with the director and producer of Committee of Six, moderated by a DC historian.

Robin Hood Gardens

6:15 PM - Robin Hood Gardens

The story of a controversial 1970s East-London housing project that was unloved by its first residents and garnered divisive responses from international critics.


Grethe Meyer

6:30 PM - Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design

The film explores the life and career of Grethe Meyer, whose classic Danish designs were globally renowned for their simplicity, functionality, and longevity in the 1940s and 1950s.

Block 2 is a choice of the following 3 film programs:

Maija Isola

8:15 PM - Maija Isola – Master of Colour and Form

A look at the path of Maija Isola, one of the first designers of the Finnish design brand Marimekko, which is known worldwide for its vibrant and original prints and colors.

Builders, Housewives, and the Construction of Modern Athens

8:30 PM - Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens

This film, based on a book by the same name, examines the city of Athens' reconstruction by anonymous lay builders and their housewives, who were unlikely co-authors.

Beyond the Life of Forms

8:45 PM - Beyond the Life of Forms

A story dedicated to two works by two great Italian architects of the twentieth century – Carlo Scarpa’s Brion funeral complex in San Vito d’Altivole and Aldo Rossi’s San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena. 

ADFF:DC is presented with the National Building Museum and the Revada Foundation of the Logan Family.

 

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