Subject: Next Stop - Chicago!

December 12, 2023


ADFF and the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) present ADFF:Chicago, the next of our 2023/24 season. We have 20 films and many Chicago premieres. Each ticket includes a single film showing plus access to a selection of ADFF short films, which you can view in the gallery at any time before or after your screening. Along with the gallery, we'll have two theaters in the CAC and a pop-up lounge where you can hang out between films. Tickets are on sale now, with a special discount for CAC members!

Some of the program highlights include...

We Start With the Things We Find (Chicago Premiere)

2023 / 81 min / USA

Director: Thomas Piper


Through creative pursuit, LOT-EK has become a prophet of adaptive reuse, ecological construction, and unexpected beauty. We Start With the Things We Find investigates the studio’s provocative practice as a prescription for the ills of our consumptive society.


Buy Tickets - Wed 1/31 at 7:00pm

Buy Tickets - Wed 1/31 at 7:15pm

This opening night screening will be followed by a Q&A with Filmmaker Tom Piper and LOT-EK co-founders Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano. Ticket-holders are also invited to attend a reception before the film.

The Mies van der Rohes (Chicago 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.


Buy Tickets - Sat 2/3 at 5:15pm

Buy Tickets - Sun 2/4 at 4:00pm


Both screenings will be followed by Q&As with Architect Dirk Lohan and Filmmaker Sabine Gisiger.

Skin of Glass (Chicago Premiere)

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.


Buy Tickets - Sun 2/4 at 2:00pm


The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Denise Zmekhol.

ADFF Alumni News

ADFF alum Gary Hustwit (Rams, Workplace, Helvetica) will have the world premiere of his new film, Eno, at Sundance this year. Congratulations!


Hustwit had Brian Eno create original music for his 2018 film on Dieter Rams, and that collaboration led to the making of this film.


Each screening of Eno is unique, presenting different scenes, order, and music. It is meant to be experienced live. Hustwit and creative technologist Brendan Dawes have developed a bespoke generative software designed to sequence scenes and create transitions out of Hustwit’s original interviews with Eno and Eno’s rich archive of hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage and unreleased music.


The generative and infinitely iterative quality of Eno poetically resonates with the artist’s own creative practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his endless deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity.


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