| Nov 15, 2021
Hello ADFF friends,
This week the Architecture & Design Film Festival will have three nights of in-person screenings at Eventscape's studio in Long Island City. We’ll have free light food and drinks from 6:30 - 7:30 nightly, where Fourth & Pride will feature their crisp, new vodka. Each of the films described below will begin at 7:30 followed by a lively Q&A on Thursday and Friday.
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| Feature films at Eventscape this week
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| Wednesday, Nov 17th
Breuer's Bohemia
2021 / 73 min / Director: James Crump
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| | The iconic twentieth-century architect Marcel Breuer was a prolific designer of residential architecture, which tends to be obscured by his early renown as a Bauhaus furniture maker and his large-scale projects. Breuer’s Bohemia is about the houses he designed in the 1950s - 70's in Litchfield, CT and Cape Cod, MA. Many of the houses were commissioned by politically progressive clients—chiefly Rufus and Leslie Stillman and Andrew and Jamie Gagarin—who coalesced around him into a dynamic social circle. Included in this scenario were prominent cultural figures such as Alexander Calder, Arthur Miller, Philip Roth, and others, marking a unique intersection of postwar architecture, art, and letters.
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| | Thursday, Nov 18
Beyond Zero
2021 / 81 min / Director: Nathan Havey
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| | This inspiring and hopeful film shows how positive leadership can inspire people to take seriously the subject of sustainability and to help make a positive impact on our planet. This is a timely and relevant film as COP26 is just wrapping up in Scotland.
Ray Anderson had spent 20 years building Interface, the largest carpet tile company in the world when he was blindsided with a new kind of problem in 1994. That year he lost a large order when an environmental consultant objected to buying his carpet tiles. To make sure this never happened again, Ray convened an environmental task force and scheduled to share his environmental vision in a kick-off speech. But he had not a clue what to say. Serendipitously, a copy of Paul Hawken’s new book, The Ecology of Commerce, arrived on Ray’s desk. Desperate for inspiration, Ray tore into the book hoping to find a vision beyond mere legal compliance. What he found hit him like a spear in the chest. It changed his life forever and set his company on a mission with the potential to change the world.
After the screening, the film’s director, Nathan Havey, will be on hand for the Q&A.
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| | Friday, Nov 19
Holy Frit
2020 / 119 min / Director: Justin Monroe
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| | Tim Carey is a talented, LA-based artist. He’s also a bit of a jackass, who uses wit and humor to charm you into forgiving his flaws. As a Hail Mary, Tim and the company he works for, Judson Studios, bluff their way into winning the commission to make the world’s largest stained-glass window of its kind. The problem is, Tim has no idea how to make his complicated design.
As this documentary unfolds, the clash of two big personalities slowly transforms into the forging of a lasting friendship. Both mentor and protégé come to realize it will take their combined focus to overcome this three-year race against time, a $1.2 billion class-action lawsuit, and the other complications that emerge when attempting a masterpiece. Even though the story takes place within the niche world of an ancient art form, it gives a universally fun, heartfelt, and sometimes comedic look into the drama of any human endeavor which is greater than the sum of its parts.
After the screening, the film’s editor, Ryan Fritzsche, will be on hand for the Q&A.
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| | Getting to Eventscape in Long Island City
5-25 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
By ferry, it's a 3-minute walk from the Long Island City/Gantry Plaza ferry stop.
By subway, it's a 10-minute walk from Court Square/23rd Street Station. (#7, E and G trains)
Reception: 6:30 / Film 7:30
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