Architecture & Design Film Festival 2017 - Program 14
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Program 14
Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse Director: Henrique Pina 2017 / 65 min / Portugal - US Premiere
Screening with Ghost Story Director: Sarah Elgart 2017 / 7 min / USA
Nov 4 @ 4:45 w/ Q & A
Nov 5 @ 5:00
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Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse Director: Henrique Pina 2017 / 65 min /
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The work of the architects at Aires Mateus clearly shows contemporaneity - in its complexity and contradiction - a difficult condition to express in the realm of architecture. The extent of the work that they've been developing for many years confirms this. Their proposals develop a language with a strong universal impact. From this universality emerges an adaptation to the territory rooted in a clear Portuguese tradition. One finds in the interpretation of the work of Aires Mateus architects an appetite - almost a desire - for a cinematographic appropriation: by the invention of a place; by the confrontation between body and matter; for the clarity of games of shadow; for the search of a silence of its own. The matter is found in reverse.
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| Ghost Story Director: Sarah Elgart 2017 / 7 min /
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| Ghost Story follows four dancers in search of a narrative as they prowl the interiors and exteriors of Bjarke Ingels’ new “court scraper” VIA 57 West in New York, responding to the building’s architecture and scale with movement. While the image of a figure in a red rain slicker is occasionally seen lurking or giving chase, two male dancers, Ghost and Storyboard P, often emerge as the real mysterious and more sinister seeming characters.
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