2016 / 44 min / France-USA
Followed
by a conversation with Juliet
Kinchin, Curator of Modern Design at MoMA, Elle Decor's contributing writer Joseph Giovannini, and
Artist/Director Elizabeth Lennard.
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.
Talking House is a 44-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