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September 8, 2022

ADFF:NY — presented by Eventscape — is just three weeks away! This year's festival will run from September 28 - October 2 and feature 15 exciting film programs. Today we’ll highlight some additional programs that weren’t listed in last week's newsletter. For tickets and info, click here.

We’re also thrilled to announce the return of ADFF:CHICAGO, which will take place February 2-5, 2023.2023, and we’re proud to be partnering with the Chicago Architecture Center. This festival will conclude the 2022/23 in-person event season.

After the in-person festivals, ADFF:ONLINE will run from February 7- 18, 2023 and provide our viewers in the US and Canada a chance to enjoy these ADFF programs on any device from the comfort of your homes.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM ADFF FILMS

Building Bastille! The Tangled and Improbable Story of the Opera Bastille

2021 / 76 min / Canada

Director: Leif Kaldor

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A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge, an impossible deadline, two warring political titans, and a blind competition. What could go wrong?

The film is set in 1982 France when the new, socialist President Mitterrand opens a blind competition to build an opera at the site of the notorious Bastille Prison. Building Bastille! is a feature-length documentary that tells the comedic, dramatic, and tangled story of modern history’s most remarkable case of mistaken identity and seized opportunity.

Concrete Landscape

2022 / 72 min / Brazil

Directors: Laura Artigas, Luiz Ferraz

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Concrete Landscape presents a narrative view of the life of Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza, highlighting small strokes of remarkable moments that have changed and influenced his work and daily life. One of the most highly-regarded architects of his generation, and a Pritzker Prize winner, the film explores Siza's relationship with Brazil, his family, and the Iberê Camargo Museum.

Bawa’s Garden

2022 / 22 min / United Kingdom

Director: Clara Kraft Isono

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Bawa’s Garden is a road movie in search of the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the ‘lost’ garden of Lunuganga. Finding the treasure might be the goal, yet the search is the catalyst for encounters with a series of characters and rarely visited buildings that reveal the story of Bawa’s life and work. Shot across Sri Lanka, this experimental documentary weaves dreamlike narratives with real life characters intrinsic to the output of this renowned 20th-century architect.

Richard Henriquez: Building Stories

2022 / 30 min / Canada

Directors: Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome

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Richard George Henriquez is a Canadian architect whose projects are known for their blend of unique design with historical context. His accumulation of work is celebrated by dozens of awards including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal in 2005, Governor Generals Medal in 1994 and the Order of Canada in 2017. Richard Henriquez: Building Stories explores his influences and unique approach to his work.

Beyond the Life of Forms

2021 / 63 min / Italy

Directors: Francesco Conversano, Nene Grignaffini

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Beyond the Life of Forms is a story dedicated to two works by two great 20th-century Italian architects – Carlo Scarpa’s Brion Tomb in San Vito d’Altivole, and Aldo Rossi’s San Cataldo Cemetery in Modena. The film layers architectural images, spoken words from the architect of record, and others' voices, demonstrating the contrast in Scarpa and Rossi’s work and thus their respective views about life on Earth and the afterlife. The audience embarks on two separate emotional and symbolic journeys into the visionary universe of the two architects – a trip beyond the life of forms.

GES-2

2021 / 77 min / Russian Federation

Director: Nastia Korkia

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In 2014, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop was tasked by V–A–C Foundation to transform GES-2, a 20,000 sq meter former power plant in Moscow, into a new, global cultural institution providing cultural energy for all. With intimate access to workers, builders, project supervisors, and architects, the film offers an up-close portrait of the transformation of this remarkable building into a cultural center. Interlacing the events in an unconventional and non-chronological order, the film provides a dose of humor on an often unexplored topic in design.

Segregated by Design

2020 / 17 min / US

Director: Mark Lopez

Committee of Six

2022 / 37 min / US

Director: Fred Schmidt-Arenales

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Two films about redlining and its effect on America. Segregated by Design tells the history of redlining - the unconstitutional segregation of every major metropolitan area in our country.

Committee of Six is an enactment of archival meeting minutes held at the University of Chicago. The meetings took place in 1955 between community leaders and university officials for the purpose of creating an urban renewal program for the Hyde Park neighborhood. The film documents the process of interpreting the archival documents, inviting comparisons between the language of the past and the contemporary reality of gentrification and racist real estate practices in Chicago.

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