Directed by Elizabeth Lennard
2016 / 44 min / France-USA
This multi-media art piece created by Elizabeth
Lennard will be a part of the MoMA exhibit How Should We Live? Propositions
for the Modern Interior (Oct. 1 – April 23, 2017). ADFF will offer a unique
opportunity to see this on a large screen followed by a conversation with
Juliet Kinchin, Curator of Modern Design at MoMA, Elle Decor's Joseph
Giovannini, and Artist/Director Elizabeth Lennard.
Talking House is a 40-minute montage of Villa E-1027, the iconic modernist villa
built by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici on the Cote d’Azur in 1929. Filmed
today, and using Eileen Gray’s 1929 photographs of the villa and recently
restored Le Corbusier film footage, the camera takes us through E-1027 as the
couple talks and argues off screen about the design philosophy behind the
breakthrough layout, interiors and furniture. Heated correspondence between
Corbu (Le Corbusier) and Bado (Badovici) aldds a bit of controversy over the
later addition of Corbu’s wall paintings.