| May 7, 2020
We're thrilled and encouraged by the enthusiasm and overwhelming response to our launch of ADFF:ONLINE last month, and will be offering up new films and new speakers this month, too.
ADFF:ONLINE is a way for the architecture and design community to remain engaged during this shelter-at-home period and experience a few specially-curated films. We hope this online venue will serve as a virtual space for the professional design industry - and the broader community - to come together and continue to explore and expand our collective understanding of architecture and design.
Our second ADFF:ONLINE will showcase films about the creative genius and life work of a few outstanding architects and designers who practiced in different ways, but all thought outside typical boxes. Each produced forward-thinking ideas and methods that still stand the test of time. We have a lot to learn from each of them.
Four nights, four great films — streaming live!
From Sunday, May 17th – Wednesday, May 20th ADFF will offer one film each night, including a live introduction and special guests. Following each film will be a Q&A with the film’s director.
Each program will be live-streamed at 8:00 pm EST and replay again at 8:00 pm PST. There’s a modest $1.99 fee to cover our operating costs, which can be purchased by clicking on this link or the link following the film description.
A special thank you goes to our long-standing sponsors Eventscape, Suite NY and Teknion, whose continuing support makes it possible for everyone to see these amazing films. Enjoy the films!
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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 (she died in 1976 at age 98) 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 film, 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
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.
Special introduction by Kai-Uwe Bergmann, partner, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
After the film, a Q&A with the film’s director, Lene Borch Hansen
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Tuesday, May 19th
Space Land Time: The Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
2011 / 78 min / USA
Directors: Elizabeth Federici, Laura Harrison
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.
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).
After the film, 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
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.
Special introduction by Alison Fisher, associate curator of architecture and design, The Art Institute of Chicago
After the film, a Q&A with the film’s director, Britini Harris
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