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Oct 5, 2021
The 2021 fall season of the Architecture & Design Film Festival will be a combination of in-cinema and virtual events. Here’s a rundown of what we’ll be doing in the US, Canada...and Egypt!
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First, a FREE virtual screening on October 6
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ADFF is offering a free virtual screening of Another Kind of Knowledge - Portrait of Dorte Mandrup that will coincide with its world premiere that same evening at the Copenhagen Architecture Festival. A description of the film is at the end of this newsletter. Following the screening there will be a live conversation with Dorte Mandrup on Facebook Live. The screening will begin at 1:20 PM EST. If you are not able to watch the free screening on Oct 6th, it will be offered as part of the ADFF 2021 fall season, so there will be other opportunities to see it. To sign up for the free virtual screening, click here.
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Toronto, November 3-5
We’ll have three nights of in-cinema screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and the films will also be available virtually for people throughout province of Ontario. The presenting sponsor for the three films is Eventscape; other sponsors are Interface, Nienkamper and the Toronto Society of Architects. Tickets will go on sale October 20th. |
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November 3rd @ 7:00 pmOn Wednesday, we’ll screen the Canadian in-person premiere of Mau, a film about the design visionary Bruce Mau who will be on-hand for a conversation and Q&A after the film. See film description below.
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November 4th @ 7:00 pm On Thursday, we’ll screen Beyond Zero, a film about a man who set his flooring company on a mission to change the world. Nathan Harvey, the film’s director will be on-hand for a Q&A afterwards. See film description below.
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November 5th @ 7:00 pm On Friday, we'll screen Breuer's Bohemia, a film about the iconic architect/designer Marcel Breuer and the houses he designed from the 1950’s through 70’s. See film description below.
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This will be our first full festival since the pandemic started. Congratulations to the province of British Columbia for their remarkable job managing the pandemic and for making our fall festival possible.
Opening night will be at the Imperial Theatre and the rest of the festival will be at the newly-renovated Vancity Theatre. We’ll have 13 film programs with many Q&A’s. Presenting sponsors are Vancouver Special and All in Pictures; other sponsors are RJ Cross, Interface and Telefilm Canada
The full schedule and film programs will be posted on our website soon. Tickets will go on sale Oct 27th. If you can’t make it to the theater, all the film programs will be offered virtually to anyone in the province of British Columbia.
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New York, November 17-19
ADFF and Eventscape will be presenting three nights of in-person screenings at the Eventscape Studio in a specially-created 150-person cinema at their space in Long Island City. Tickets will go on sale November 2nd |
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November 17th @ 7:30
On Wednesday, we'll screen Breuer's Bohemia. See description below.
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November 18th @ 7:30
On Thursday, we'll screen Beyond Zero. See description below.
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November 19th @ 7:30
On Friday, we'll screen Holy Frit. See description below.
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| ADFF:ONLINE, November 17- December 3 Tickets will go on sale November 2.
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This year, ADFF will offer 13 virtual film programs with Q&A’s. All the films will be available to watch any time, on any device throughout the US and Canada. Like last year, this virtual festival will take place over the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s a great opportunity to watch some amazing films about architecture and design with family and friends.
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ADFF will host ADFF:DC from January 6-9 which will be both in-person at the National Building Museum and virtual. At the end of January we’ll head to Cairo, Egypt where we’ll collaborate with an amazing film festival there called Film My Design. We’ll bring some of the new films from this year’s festival as well as a few great ones from our archives. More information about both of these events will be coming in future newsletters.
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Some of the films in the 2021 season
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Another Kind of Knowledge - Portrait of Dorte Mandrup
2021 / 78 min / Denmark
Directors: Marc-Christoph Wagner and Simon Weyhe
Another Kind of Knowledge is a fascinating tale of the conditions and nature of architecture today as told through a conversation with the internationally-acclaimed Danish architect Dorte Mandrup. Known for bringing a sculptural quality to her buildings, Dorte Mandrup has enjoyed stardom in the Scandinavian architecture scene and now gradually in the international world as people begin to take interest in her studio. Directed by Marc-Christoph Wagner and Simon Weyhe in collaboration with the Louisiana Museum of Denmark and the Louisiana Channel, the film offers a distinctive portrait of the artist, shaped by her very own conversations.
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MAU
2021 / 76 min / Austria
Directors: Benji and Jono Bergmann
MAU is the first-ever, feature-length documentary about the design visionary Bruce Mau. The film explores his unlikely creative journey and ever-optimistic push to tackle the world’s biggest problems with design. Over the span of his career, this creative dark horse has completed the transformation from world-class graphic designer to designer of the world. From advising global brands like Coca-Cola and Disney to rethinking a 1000-year plan for Mecca (Islam’s holiest site), Bruce Mau is a pioneer of transformation design and the belief that design can be used to create positive change in our world.
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Breuer's Bohemia
2021 / 73 min / USA
Director: James Crump
Breuer’s Bohemia surveys the houses designed by iconic architect Marcel Breuer from the 1950s through the ’70s, many of which were commissioned by politically progressive clients. The film offers a unique glimpse of a twentieth-century milieu that produced an aesthetic, intellectual, and sometimes sybaritic community in a bygone period of American culture.
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Beyond Zero
2021 / 81 min / USA
Director: Nathan Harvey
Beyond Zero tells the story of how Ray Anderson turned Interface, the largest carpet tile company in the world, into a mission-driven brand, committed to sequestering carbon in its products and making factories that sustain and replenish the ecosystem.
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Holy Frit
2020 / 119 min / USA
Director: Justin Monroe
Holy Frit tells the story of Tim Carey, a talented, Los Angeles-based artist who, along with his company Judson Studios, bluffs his way into winning the commission to make the world’s largest stained-glass window of its kind. After a desperate search, Tim comes to learn about someone who might be able to help make his complicated design. As the documentary unfolds the clash of two big personalities slowly transforms into the forging of a lasting friendship. This story 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.
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