Thu 12 Apr, 6:00pm Sat 14 Apr, 7:15pm

Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions – Program 15

Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions

directed by Duki Dror in English

A cinematic meditation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. Erich and Louise Mendelsohn have wondered between continents, between world wars, between success and failure. Award-winning filmmaker, Duki Dror (The Journey of Vaan Nguyen, Raging Dove) has created a spectacular interpretation based on Erich and Louise’s relationship, for one of the most captivating chapters in the development of modern art.

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South Pond

directed by Adam Goss and Red Mike in English

Spirit of Space captured the pavilion designed by Studio Gang Architects as it took shape.

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Thu 12 Apr, 8:00pm Sun 15 Apr, 7:00pm

Unfinished Spaces – Program 1

Unfinished Spaces

directed by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray in Spanish, English with English subtitles

Featuring a post-screening Q&A.

Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

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Fri 13 Apr, 5:00pm Sat 14 Apr, 9:15pm

Detroit Wild City – Program 9

Detroit Wild City

directed by Florent Tillon in English

Florent Tillon’s film begins with familiar but inevitably arresting images of Detroit’s decay into postapocalyptic pastoralism, but doesn’t end there. While most cinematic pilgrims have portrayed the Motor City as a giant canvas onto which they project their outsider fantasies, The obligatory urban tour of empty factories and the abandoned Michigan Central station quickly gives way to a contemplative, nuanced discussion of what futures might actually be possible.

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The Landfill

directed by Jessica Edwards and Gary Hustwit in English

The United States produces 390 billion pounds of garbage every year, and finding places to dispose of it is a serious environmental and economic challenge. But what if we could change the way we think about garbage, from something to be disposed of to something to be harvested?

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Fri 13 Apr, 5:15pm Sat 14 Apr, 3:00pm

Architect of Dreams – Program 8

Architect of Dreams

directed by Geoff Cawthorn in English

Ian Athfield’s architectural designs dot the New Zealand landscape and are keenly sought after by home owners. Intelligent, outspoken, amusing, opinionated and passionate, Athfield, considered by many to be a maverick, is one of New Zealand’s most influential creative figures who bring a unique vision in his practice of almost 40 years.

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Passive Passion

directed by Charlie Hoxie in English

Twenty years ago, physicists synthesized a package of design principles that reduces a dwelling’s energy use by 90%. Over 20,000 buildings in Europe have been built to the Passive House standard, enthusiasts in the U.S. actively work to spread the concept.

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The Man Who Built My Childhood

directed by Brian Stockton in English

Jospeh Pettick designed a staggering 500 buildings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, and his impact on filmmaker Brian Stockton was profound.

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Fri 13 Apr, 7:00pm Sat 14 Apr, 7:00pm

EAMES: The Architect and the Painter – Program 10

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

directed by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey in English

The Architect and the Painter is the first film about Charles and Ray Eames since their deaths and the only film to peer inside their collaboration, their marriage and the “Renaissance studio” they created in a gritty warehouse in Venice, CA. Narrated by James Franco, the film draws from a trove of archival material, primarily the stunning films and photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles, Ray, and their staff during the hyper-creative forty years of the Eames Office.

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Elephant Safari-Into The Wild

directed by Eames Demetrios in English

Elephant Safaris—by elephants, for elephants. Join the Eames Elephants as they return to the wilds to discover their roots. Filmed in Location Animation.

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Fri 13 Apr, 7:15pm Sun 15 Apr, 4:45pm

Mission Statements – Program 2

Mission Statements

directed by Jord den Hollander in Dutch with English subtitles

In 1991 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands decided to promote national architecture abroad. All over the world new embassies were realised by prominent Dutch architects. Mission Statements shows the background of the buildings and presents a stunning view behind the curtains of daily life in the embassies.

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American Homes

This animated history, presenting 1,800 years of residential architecture in North America, unfolds along a simple timeline, while notable figures in the world of design and architecture weigh in on what a house is, and can be.

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Fri 13 Apr, 9:00pm Mon 16 Apr, 7:15pm

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth – Program 5

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

directed by Chad Freidrichs in English

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.

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Mudgee Tower

directed by Naomi Bishops and Richard Raber

This film looks at the inspiration, design and construction of this unique and totally sustainable shelter.

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Fri 13 Apr, 9:30pm Sat 14 Apr, 9:00pm

Pool Party – Program 4

Pool Party

directed by Beth Aala in English

Pool Party is the surprising story of an abandoned swimming pool, the largest in New York City that became the most significant music venue since CBGB’s. Both an indie music showcase and an urban history lesson, Pool Party traces the process of gentrification of Williamsburg, Brooklyn through the story of McCarren Pool.

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Gather Give Grow

in English

Gather Give Grow depicts Archeworks’ Mobile Food Collective (MFC) – an innovative traveling educational and cultural center that promotes the local food movement.

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Sat 14 Apr, 3:15pm

John Portman: A Life of Building – Program 11

John Portman: A Life of Building

directed by Ben Loeterman in English

Once a maverick who was nearly run out of the American Institute of Architects, John Portman is now recognized as one of the most innovative and imitated architects ever. The film captures Portman’s approach in an intimate portrait that, by turn, assesses and appreciates Portman’s work. Dramatic time-lapse footage shows off Portman’s buildings at their best—often in moving sunlight that washes over his facades and spaces.

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Louis LeRoy – Endless Work in Time and Space

directed by Beate Lendt in Dutch with English subtitles

A short portrait of the Dutch artist Louis LeRoy and his work the Ecokathedraal in Mildam in the North of Holland.

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Into the Garden of Glass and Steel

directed by Aristotelis Maragkos in English

Imagine a world where technology has taken over society and mankind now makes all the choices based on instincts. Imagine a derelict world of the future.

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Sat 14 Apr, 5:00pm Sun 15 Apr, 3:00pm

Architect: A Chamber Opera in Six Scenes – Program 3

Architect: A Chamber Opera in Six Scenes

directed by Jenny Kallick

Architect was inspired by the work of Louis I. Kahn (1902-1974), a major figure in twentieth-century architecture. Architect is a meditation on creativity and the inner life of the creator. Events are set in motion by the Trickster god, Momus. The council of gods has expelled this impish minor deity down to earth, where he seeks to inspire mortals to create buildings.

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Sat 14 Apr, 5:15pm Sun 15 Apr, 9:15pm

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life – Program 13

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life

directed by Bill Finnegan and Stephen Kellert in English

Biophilic design is an innovative way of designing places. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature.

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Minka

directed by Davina Pardo in English

Minka is a short documentary about a remarkable Japanese farmhouse and the memories it contains.

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Sun 15 Apr, 3:15pm Mon 16 Apr, 9:15pm

The Gruen Effect – Program 12

The Gruen Effect

directed by Anette Baldauf and Katharina Weingartner in German with English subtitles

In The Gruen Effect, an architect’s life, work, and critical humor become a means to make sense of the cities we live in today. The Viennese architect Victor Gruen is considered the father of the shopping mall. His ideas about urban planning, both influential and abused, have led to cities that serve the new gods of consumption. By tracing Gruen’s path from prewar Vienna to 1950s’ America and back to Europe in 1968, the documentary explores the themes and mistranslations that have come to define urban life.

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Three Walls

directed by Zaheed Mawani in English

Capturing the melancholic absurdity and shifting nature of the modern day office, Three Walls traces the development of the office cubicle from its inception in the late 1960s to its current status as the dominant form of office furniture in North America.

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Sun 15 Apr, 5:15pm Mon 16 Apr, 7:00pm

Robert A.M Stern: 15 Central Park West – Program 14

Robert A.M. Stern: 15 Central Park West and the History of the New York Apartment House

directed by Tom Piper in English

Even during the Great Recession of 2008, one new apartment house in New York City continued to set the bar for real-estate prices: 15 Central Park West. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, the lavish, limestone-clad structure from 61st to 62nd streets is arguably one of the most luxurious residential buildings to rise in the city in decades. Stern deliberately evokes the grand era of New York apartments designed in the 1920s and 1930s, especially the intricately planned architecture of Rosario Candela.

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Up to the Sky – Hearst Tower, New York

directed by Sabine Pollmeier & Joachim Haupt in German with English subtitles

Norman Foster’s high-rise has been standing on the edge of Central Park since the end of 2006. The Hearst Tower rises 182 meters into the sky, a rather modest height, and soon this small-scale skyscraper may be overlooked on the dense New York skyline. The Hearst Tower is New York’s first green skyscraper. The structure is efficient – and it is also extremely elegant.

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Public Farm 1

directed by Lilibet Foster in English

Public Farm 1 is about the building of a sustainable, biodegradable, cardboard farm in the unlikely location of New York City. For WorkAC, winning MoMA PS1’s prestigious Young Architects Program competition was their first big break.

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High Line Phase 2

directed by Ian Harris and David Krantz in English

The film captures perspectives of both design firms, Ric Scofidio from Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, and James Corner.

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Sun 15 Apr, 7:15pm Mon 16 Apr, 9:00pm

Lioness Among Lions: The Architect Zaha Hadid – Program 7

Lioness Among Lions –The Architect Zaha Hadid

directed by Horst Brandenburg in German with English subtitles

Winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize in 2004 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2009, the English-Iraqi architect and designer Zaha Hadid (born in 1950) has long been controversial. This film spotlights a leading figure in deconstructivism and her visionary achievements around the world.

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School #9 Coop Himmelb(l)au

directed by Howard Silver in English

Wolf Prix, principal architect of Coop Himmelb(l)au discusses the firm’s projects School #9, a complex of buildings on a campus in downtown Los Angeles devoted to the performing arts.

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Studio Gang Architects: Columbia College Chicago MPC

directed by Dave Burk and Rick Valicenti in English

Hedrich Blessing Photographers and Thirst Design join to create a visual interpretation of Studio Gang Architects project to build a film school in the south loop of Chicago.

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Sun 15 Apr, 9:00pm

Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa – Program 6

Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa

directed by Arun Khopkar in English

Having built prolifically in India, architect Charles Correa is less known in the west, but nevertheless has received the highest awards worldwide for his work. Born in India and trained in the United States, Correa’s architecture incorporates the philosophies of both tradition

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Concrete Coast

directed by Robert Harding Pittman in English, Spanish with English subtitles

Concrete Coast is about the social, cultural and environmental effects of the last bit of un-urbanized Spanish Mediterranean coast being built for residential tourism in the Region of Murcia.

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