Subject: Valentine's Day gift from ADFF

February 14, 2023


In the spirit of Valentine's Day, we're sharing the love with a free film on ADFF:Online.


One of our favorite design love stories is Design is One, which tells the story of Massimo and Lella Vignelli. Ten years ago, we hosted the world premiere of the film at ADFF:NY at the infamous Tribeca Cinema. Both Massimo and Lella were there for a great evening of film and fun. Although they are no longer living, their spirit and design are still strongly felt in New York City and beyond.

Design is One

2012 / 79 min / US

Directors: Kathy Brew and Roberto Gurrera

Watch this design love story for free as a Valentine's Gift from ADFF.

We hope you enjoy this free film!


ADFF:Online continues through February 17th. You can start watching any film before midnight on the 17th. After you press play, you have up to 48 hours to finish the film.


Here's the complete lineup:

Alice Street

2020 / 70 min / US

Director: Spencer Wilkinson

The compelling story of how artists in Oakland come together as a community to adjust the process and pace of a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.

Barry Farm: Community, Land & Justice in Washington, DC

2022 / 50 min / US

Directors: Samuel George & Sabiyha Prince

The story Barry Farm, the site of one of DC’s first thriving Black communities, later a public housing complex, now under redevelopment.

Bawa’s Garden

2022 / 84 min / UK

Director: Clara Kraft Isono

A road movie searching for the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, a leading voice in tropical modernism.

Beyond the Life of Forms

2021 / 63 min / Italy

Directors: Francesco Conversano & Nene Grignaffini

A story dedicated to two works by two great Italian architects of the twentieth century – Carlo Scarpa’s Brion funeral complex and Aldo Rossi’s San Cataldo Cemetery.

Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens

2021 / 87 min / Greece

Directors: Tassos Langis & Yiannis Gaitanidis

A new perspective of the city of Athens and its most distinctive building type – the polykatoikía.

Building Bastille! The Tangled and Improbable story of the Opera Bastille

2021 / 76 min / Canada

Director: Leif Kaldor

A half-billion-dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge, an impossible deadline, two warring political titans, and a blind competition. What could go wrong?

Concrete Landscape

2022 / 72 min / Brazil

Directors: Laura Artigas, Luiz Ferraz

A narrative view of the life of Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, highlighting small strokes of remarkable moments that have changed and influenced his work and daily life.

GES-2

2021 / 77 min / Russia

Director: Nastia Korkia

Renzo Piano transforms a former power plant in Moscow into a new art institution providing cultural energy for all.

Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design

2021 / 61 min / Denmark

Director: Isabel Bernadette Brammer

A pioneering architect who, despite enormous consequences, created classic Danish designs such as the Royal Copenhagen Blue Edge set.

Maija Isola – Master of Colour and Form

2021 / 90 min / Finland

Director: Leena Kilpeläinen

Finnish artist Maija Isola was one of the first designers of Marimekko.

Richard Henriquez: Building Stories & Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design (Double Feature)

Richard Henriquez: Building Stories

2022 / 30 min / Canada

Directors: Mike Bernard & Gavin Froome

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Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design

2021 / 33 min / US

The two films in this double feature both highlight the remarkable accomplishments of famous 21st-century designers.

Robin Hood Gardens

2022 / 90 min / Germany

Directors: Thomas Beyer & Adrian Dorschner

A story of complexity and contradiction in modern architecture about Alison & Peter Smithson's controversial public housing project.

Segregated by Design & Committee of Six (Double Feature)

Segregated by Design

2020 / 17 min / US

Director: Mark Lopez

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Committee of Six

2022 / 37 min / US

Director: Fred Schmidt-Arenales

These two films make up a double-feature that explores the discriminatory practice of redlining.

Under Tomorrow’s Sky

2021 / 71 min / Netherlands

Director: Jan Louter

Architect Winy Maas, MVRDV founding co-partner, is passionate about finding innovative solutions for the city.

A World to Shape

2022 / 52 min / Netherlands

Director: Ton van Zantvoort

Nienke Hoogvliet and Dave Hakkens represent a new generation of contemporary Dutch Designers who don’t care about existing boundaries between art, design, and science.


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