| May 14, 2020
Spring is here and some restrictions are being loosened, but movie theaters remain closed. To help keep you engaged during this shelter-at-home period, ADFF:ONLINE will be streaming four films about the creative genius and life work of a few outstanding architects and designers.
Starting Sunday, May 17 through Wednesday, May 20, we will offer one film each night — some with special introductions — and Q&As with the filmmakers after each screening.
All of this is made possible with the generous support of our sponsors Eventscape, Suite NY and Teknion.
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Sunday, May 17th
Gray Matters
2014 / 76 min / Ireland & USA
Director: Marco Orsini
Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Her reputation bloomed in the early 20th century with her traditional lacquer work, then became a critically-acclaimed and much sought-after furniture designer and decorator before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she labored mostly in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building (which were persistently and perversely credited to her mentor), her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough to be re-discovered and newly-acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy remains elusive, contested and compelling.
After the screening, a Q&A with the film’s director, Marco Orsini
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| Monday, May 18th
The Man & The Architect - Jørn Utzon
2018 / 90 min / Denmark
Directors: Lene Borch Hansen, Anna von Lowzow
Special introduction by Kai-Uwe Bergmann, partner, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
This documentary about Jørn Utzon tells the personal and emotional story about the world-renowned architect and his unique gift. Behind him stood the love of his life through 70 years, Lis, without whom Jørn would not have become the architect and man he was. His story is told by the people who were closest to him for decades: his children, close colleagues, and friends, all of whom share anecdotes and personal experiences. He greatly inspired the people he worked with, and meeting Jørn Utzon had a profound effect on their lives. The film is a portrait of a devoted humanitarian and a sensitive and loving soul.
After the screening, a Q&A with the film’s director, Lene Borch Hansen
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Special introduction with Mark Lamster, architecture critic for the Dallas Morning News, and author of the acclaimed biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, The Man in the Glass House (Little Brown, 2018).
Both William Menking and Michael Sorkin are interviewed in the film. Here is a 60 second clip with Bill Menking.
This is the first film to consider the work of the 1970s avant-garde architecture, graphic arts and environmental design firm called Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece, Cadillac Ranch. Radical architects, video pioneers, and mordantly funny cultural commentators, the Ant Farmers created a body of deeply subversive multi-disciplinary work that questioned the boundaries of architecture and everything else in the process. Incorporating breathtaking archival video, new footage shot over ten years, and animation based on zany period sketches, Space Land Time is about the joy of creation in a time when there were no limits.
After the screening, a Q&A with Ant Farm co-founder Chip Lord and the film’s directors, Elizabeth Federici and Laura Harrison
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Wednesday, May 20th
GOFF
2019 / 96 min / USA
Director: Britini Harris
Special introduction by Alison Fisher, associate curator of architecture and design, The Art Institute of Chicago
Bruce Goff was one of the greatest American architects of the 20th century. His unconventional perspective challenged stigmas about the Midwest’s inability to produce innovative work. A peer to Frank Lloyd Wright, his work had a profound influence on the next generation of architects, including Phillip Johnson and Frank Gehry. However, Goff’s willingness to explore original forms often solicited polarized perspectives of his work. As a result of establishing his practice in an otherwise conservative landscape and his unabashed desire to experiment with the possibilities of form, much of his work has been left to decay or forgotten altogether. GOFF explores the life of an iconoclast and chronicles the events that led to the destruction and renewed interest of his memory and dwellings.
After the screening, a Q&A with the film’s director, Britini Harris
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