ADFF:NY - Day 3

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Subject: ADFF:NY - Day 3

October 14, 2023

Yesterday was full of great screenings and conversations. Today is going to be a perfect rainy day for seeing movies– see you in the East Village at the theatre!

ADFF is happy to be in our new NY home in the East Village.

Elena Baenninger, Senior Cultural Officer of the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, introduced The Power of Utopia: Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh.

ADFF's pop-up book store by Head Hi, New York's only bookstore dedicated to architecture and design. Head Hi is an independent female-owned business based in Fort Greene.

Podcaster Avery Trufelman and journalist Diana Budds talking about utopia after a screening.

ADFF Senior Programmer Ruth Somalo and Filmmaker Elodie Degavre took questions after the screening of Life, Assembled.

Architect Joshua Ramus at ADFF for the world premiere of veins.

ADFF:NY October 14

12 Film Programs

FILM GUIDE | SCHEDULE

12:45 PM - Buy Tickets

Life, Assembled

2022 / 70 min / Belgium

Director: Elodie Degavre

Architect and director Elodie Degavre looks back on a little-known chapter of Belgian Architectural history – the story of a post-modern enclave in an otherwise traditional Belgian countryside.

This screening is followed by a Q&A with the director.

1:00 PM - Buy Tickets

The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa (US Premiere)

2023 / 80 min / Sri Lanka

Director: Afdhel Aziz

Co-presented by Molteni&C

In The Genius of the Place, director Afdhel Aziz introduces us to five of Geoffrey Bawa’s projects through his own personal connection to the work.

This screening is followed by a Q&A with the director.

1:15 PM - Buy Tickets

Best in the World (NY Premiere)

2022 / 56 min / Denmark

Director: Hans Christian Post

Co-presented by the Consulate General of Denmark in New York and the Ministry of Culture Denmark

Best in the World offers a closer look at Copenhagen's journey from an industrial city on the brink of bankruptcy to one of the world’s most livable cities. .

This screening is followed by a Q&A with director.

3:00 PM - Buy Tickets

Skin of Glass (US Sneak Preview)

2023 / 90 min / United States

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.

3:30 PM - Buy Tickets

The Promise: Architect B.V. Doshi (US Premiere)

2023 / 90 min / Germany

Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre

Balkrishna Doshi, one of India’s most influential 20th-century architects, passed away this year at 95 years old. The Promise provides audiences with the gift of getting to know Doshi, a soft-spoken humanist with distinctly modern designs.

3:45 PM - Buy Tickets

Women in Architecture (US Premiere)

2022 / 20 min / Switzerland

Director: Boris Noir

Clodagh

2022 / 50 min / Ireland

Director: Oda O'Carroll

Co-presented by nienkamper

The films in this double feature focus on the countless women who have shaped the field. Clodagh offers a vibrant timeline of the renowned designer's life and the philosophies that impacted her work.

Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with Clodagh.

5:30 PM - Buy Tickets

TerraForma (US Premiere)

2023 / 60 min / Ireland

Directors: Laurence Durkin and Kevin Brennan

House of Adaptation (US Premiere)

2023 / 42 min / Netherlands

Director: Onur Can Tepe

We've designed our way into a climate crisis, and now we have to design our way out. TerraForma focuses on the remote desert island of Ascension, which was engineered into a tropical paradise through the process of 'terraforming'. House of Adaptation takes viewers on a journey through the minds of the people who gave life to a climate-adaptive building that will float with rising sea levels.

6:00 PM - Buy Tickets

Radical Landscapes

2022 / 90 min / Switzerland

Director: Elettra Fiumi

After the death of visionary architect Fabrizio Fiumi, his daughter Elettra embarks on a quest to discover her father’s radical past.

6:15 PM - Buy Tickets

My Architect (20th Anniversary)

2004 / 116 min / United States

Director: Nathaniel Kahn

Director Nathaniel Kahn takes us on a heartbreaking and humorous journey of his attempts to reconnect with his deceased father, renowned architect Louis I. Kahn. In a documentary with all the emotional impact of a dramatic feature film,

Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with director Nathaniel Kahn.

8:00 PM - Buy Tickets

Rehab (from rehab) (US Premiere)

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, Rehab (from rehab) demonstrates how a building itself can contribute to patients’ recovery stories.

8:30 PM - Buy Tickets

Modernism, Inc. (US Premiere)

2023 / 75 min / United States

Director: Jason Cohn

Co-presented by IBM

Architect Eliot Noyes is a transitional figure in the history of American design. Educated by Walter Gropius at Harvard, 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.

9:00 PM - Buy Tickets

The Mies van der Rohes (US Premiere)

2023 / 80 min / Switzerland

Director: Sabine Gisiger

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.

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