Architects can be parents, too...

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Subject: Architects can be parents, too...

September 21, 2023

Throughout the years, we've screened films that follow a filmmaker on a journey to uncover the personal and professional lives of a parent who is also an architect. This theme surfaced in past years with films like My Father, the Genius (Lucia Small, 2002), Rem (Tomas Koolhaas, 2016), Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future (Eric Saarinen and Peter Rosen, 2016), and Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner (Catherine Ledner, 2017).

This year, we are thrilled to present three films by the children of architect parents. Along similar lines, we are excited to screen Life, Assembled, directed by architect/filmmaker Elodie Degavre, who was inspired to pursue architecture as she observed her neighbor design her childhood home. We hope you'll join us as we dig into these stories that highlight fascinating intersections between architecture and family.

Radical Landscapes

2022 / 90 min / Switzerland

Director: Elettra Fiumi

Director Elettra Fiumi explores the work and life of her late father Fabrizio Fiumi. Her story about this disruptive architect and his radical contemporaries, a group called 9999, reveals how challenging the status quo shaped design.

10/12 @ 9:00pm

10/14 @ 6:00pm

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Co-presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York

Skin of Glass (Sneak Preview)

2023 / 90 min / US

Director: Denise Zmekhol

A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece is occupied by hundreds of unhoused people.

10/14 @ 3:00pm

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My Architect (20th Anniversary)

2003 / 116 min / US

Director: Nathanial Kahn

In My Architect, director Nathanial Kahn takes us on a heartbreaking and humorous journey of his attempts to reconnect with his deceased father, renowned architect Louis I. Kahn. When he died in 1974, Kahn left behind a personal life of secrets and broken promises. The riveting narrative takes us from the men’s room of Penn Station to the bustling streets of Bangladesh to the inner sanctums of Jerusalem politics. In a documentary with all the emotional impact of a dramatic feature film, Nathaniel’s journey becomes a universal investigation of identity, a celebration of art, and an exploration of life itself.

After the film, we'll hear from Director Nathanial Kahn.

10/14 @ 6:15pm + Q&A

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Life, Assembled (US Premiere)

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.

10/13 @ 8:45pm + Q&A with Director Elodie Degavre

10/14 @ 12:45pm + Q&A with Director Elodie Degavre and Julia Gamolina, Founder & Editor-In-Chief of Madame Architect

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Co-presented by Ernest NY, Delta Light, and Renson.

Save the dates

ADFF:Toronto presented by Eventscape will be back at TIFF Bell Lightbox Theatre. Tickets will go on sale on October 1.

ADFF:Vancouver presented by All in Pictures and Vancouver Special will take place at VIFF Centre and Hollywood Theatre. Tickets will go on sale on October 1.

ADFF:Chicago will take place at the Chicago Architecture Center and The Mart. Tickets will go on sale in December.

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Subject: Architects can be parents, too...