Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival – May 10-20 2012 at Rialto, New Market.
Antwerp Central Stat
Between past and present, between dream and reality, this film presents a mildly ironic and contemplative look at Antwerp’s Central Station …
Visual Acoustics; The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. …
Mission Statements: The Architecture of Dutch Diplomacy
In 1991 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry decided to promote Dutch architecture abroad. All over the world prominent Dutch architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Bjarne Mastenbroek and Dick van Gamere, Lafour & Wijk and Claus and Kaan, designed new embassies. …
Citizen Architect: Citizen Architect
Hale County, Alabama is home to some of the most impoverished people in America. It is also home to Auburn University’s Rural Studio, one of the country’s most prolific and inspirational design-build architecture programs. …
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
“The purpose of architecture,” said John Lautner, “is to create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life.” Infinite Space traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” …
Contemporary Days – The Designs of Lucienne & Robin Day
Robin and Lucienne Day transformed British design after World War II with striking furniture and textiles that signaled a new era of modernist sensibilities for everyday living. …
Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect
“My place in New Canaan is…a diary of an eccentric architect.” Thus begins a fascinating look into the mind of one of the 20th century’s most creative and significant architects. …
Desert Utopia: Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs
This documentary traces the origins and growth of midcentury architecture in the modernist mecca of Palm Springs, California. …
Unfinished Spaces
In Unfinished Spaces, Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, and ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece. …
Journeyman Architect - The Life and Work of Donald Wexler
During the 1950s and 60s, Donald Wexler pioneered commercial and residential construction using steel. …
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island
Using rare archival material and gorgeous cinematography, this film explores the work of the region’s best postwar architects, including Albert Frey, Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Durrell Stone, Marcel Breuer, Andrew Geller, Philip Johnson, Charles Gwathmey and Barbara and Julian Neski. …
William Krisel, Architect
Over the course of his sixty-year career, architect William Krisel has brought modernism to the masses, designing more than 40,000 individual housing units across the U.S. …
Coast Modern
Filmmakers Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome take us on a journey from Los Angeles to Vancouver and from 1922 to the present exploring modernist architecture on the West Coast of North America …
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
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. …
The Gruen Effect: Victor Gruen and the Shopping Mall
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.
Space, Land, Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm
Most recognized for the iconic Texas land-art piece, Cadillac Ranch, the 1970s art/architecture collective Ant Farm questioned the boundaries of architecture and everything else in the process. …
Rem Koolhaas – A Kind of Architect
Rem Koolhaas – A Kind of Architect is an engaging portrait of a visionary man, which takes us to the heart of his ideas. For Koolhaas what is essential is not to create individual masterpieces, but to provoke and excite through the wide range of his activities. …
Bauhaus: Model and Myth
Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school sought to reconcile the arts and crafts and create a new aesthetic that would serve industry. It became the twentieth century’s most important school of art, design and architecture. …
John Portman: A Life of Building
Once a maverick who was nearly exiled from the American Institute of Architects, John Portman is now recognized as one of the most innovative and imitated architects ever. …
Oscar Niemeyer
A documentary on the life and work of the greatest of modern Brazilian architects, Oscar Niemeyer. In a relaxed atmosphere, the architect tells how his main projects were conceived – among these Brasília, the French Communist Party headquarters and Mondadori Publishers in Milan …
