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November 12, 2024

ADFF is coming back to LA– a city of film and architecture. Our last LA festival was a few years ago. We now have two new venues, both great places to see films:

Tuesday night through Friday night: The Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. For this venue, there is free parking with ADFF validation.

Saturday all day: The Culver Theater in Culver City. This theater was recently renovated with state-of-the-art projectors, screens, and audio.

ADFF:LA speakers include Architects Thom Mayne, Robin Donaldson, Ada Tolla, and Giuseppe Lugano, Landscape Designer Walter Hood, Artists Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Journalists Frances Anderton, Sam Lubell, and Russell Fortmeyer, and many filmmakers.

November 19 - Writers Guild Theatre - 7:30pm, Q&A after the screening.

Schindler Space Architect (LA Premiere)

2024 / 90 min / US

Director: Valentina Ganeva

The first film to explore the entire career of RM Schindler, one of LA's most important architects. Frank Gehry said Schindler was his "guiding light." Meryl Streep narrates the film.

Q&A with Valentina Ganeva and Frances Anderton

November 20 - Writers Guild Theatre - 7:30pm, Q&A after the screening.

Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (LA Premiere)

2024 / 82 min / US

Director: Jim Venturi

A fresh perspective on Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, which premiered at ADFF:NY. Check out Christopher Harthword's NY Times article about the film.

Q&A with Jim Venturi and Sam Lubell

November 21 - Writers Guild Theatre - 7:30pm, Q&A after the screening.

A double feature of two LA premieres. Each film features an important residential project. Both films feature Architects Thom Mayne and Robin Donaldson. Each film is great on its own, but together they are magic.

The House: 6 Points of Departure (LA Premiere)

2024 / 46 min / US

Director: Gregg Goggin

An exploration of the creative process behind the Crawford House in Montecito, one of the world’s most widely studied houses. It was Mayne's first residential project and he only did a few more after.

Q&A with Thom Mayne, Susan Goggin, and Gregg Goggin

This Is Not A House (LA Premiere)

2024 / 34 min / US

Director: Morgan Neville

Academy award winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom, Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, episodes of Abstract: The Art of Design on Bjarke Ingles and Neri Oxman) pulls together a film on a project that both an artwork and a home to artists Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, designed by Robin Donaldson.

Q&A with Robin Donaldson, Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin

November 22 - Writers Guild Theatre - 7:30pm, Q&A after the screening.

E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea (LA Premiere)

2024 / 90 min / Switzerland

Directors: Beatrice Minger and Christoph Schaub

The remarkable life story of Elieen Gray, a trailblazer in art and architecture. When Le Corbusier discovered her masterpiece home E.1027, he became intrigued and obsessed. He later covered the walls with murals, which Gray described as vandalism. This is a story about the power of one woman’s creative expression and a man’s desire to control it.

Q&A with Frances Anderton, Kim Schoenstadt and Shane Reiner-Roth

November 23 - Culver Theater - All-day programming in two cinemas, starting at 12:30pm.

12:30pm: Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines (US Premiere)

2024 / 80 min / Canada

Directors: Ryan Mah, Danny Berish

This Vancouver architect had a global impact– Erickson is the only Canadian to receive the Pritzker Prize. His personal life was kept quiet because, as he said in the 1980s, "being a homosexual was bad for business." His incredible life story and work come together in the directors' first feature-length film, which opened our Canadian festivals.

Q&A with Ryan Mah, Danny Berish, and Leah Malen, moderated by Russell Fortmeyer

12:45pm: Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz (LA Premiere)

2024 / 55 min / Italy

Directors: Francesca Molteni, Mattia Colombo

An exploration of the green architecture revolution through the seminal projects of Emilio Ambasz, a pioneer in the debate on climate impact.

2:45pm: DEPOT – Reflecting Boijmans (LA Premiere)

2024 / 83 min / Netherlands

Director: Sonia Herman Dolz

The happy story of the world’s first museum depot entirely open to visitors– a shared vision of architect Winy Maas, a founding partner of MVRDV, and Sjarel Ex, the Boijmans Museum executive director.

3:00pm: Sitting Still (LA Premiere)

2024 / 90 min / US

Director: Gina Angelone

A portrait of prolific landscape architect Laurie Olin told through a prism of concerns that have defined his life’s work: urbanization and a lost connection to nature, economic marginalization, and the importance of humanity.

Q&A with Gina Angelone and Walter Hood

5:15pm: Biocentrics

2023 / 107 mins / Brazil

Directors: Ataliba Benaim, Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo

Biologist Janine Benyus explores nature as a model for reinventing our world. Witness the birth of biomimicry, a new scientific frontier shaping our response to the future.

5:15pm: Ada – My Mother the Architect (LA Premiere)

2024 / 82 / Israel & US

Director: Yael Melamede

A deeply moving portrait of one of the most accomplished female architects in the world directed by her daughter, filmmaker and former architect Yael Melamede.

Q&A with Yael Melamede

8:00pm: We Start With the Things We Find (LA Premiere)

2023 / 85 / US

Director: Tom Piper

Through creative pursuit, LOT-EK has become a prophet of adaptive reuse, ecological construction, and unexpected beauty. We Start With the Things We Find investigates the studio’s provocative practice as a prescription for the ills of our consumptive society.

Q&A with Ada Tolla, Giuseppe Lignano, and Tom Piper moderated by Kyong Park.

8:15pm: The Pavilion on the Water (LA Premiere)

2023 / 77 min / Italy

Directors: Stefano Croci, Silvia Siberini

A cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture, through the words of philosopher Ryosuke Ōhashi.

November 14-16: WestEdge Design Fair returns to Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar

Engage with top names in DESIGN + FURNISHINGS. Enjoy panel talks, culinary demonstrations & tastings, book signings, and special events. Don't miss the opening night party that benefits Hollywood Food Coalition, all in an environment designed to engage, entertain, and inspire you.

Get tickets: https://westedgedesignfair.com/

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