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Nov 5, 2017
Day 5 is the final day of ADFF NY 2017 and we will finish the festival with nine screenings.
At 2:30 the New York premiere of Building Hope: The Maggie's Centres which will be followed by a Q&A with architect Chris McVoy, a senior partner of Steven Holl Architects. For Tickets
At 4:30 will be the world premiere of SUPERDESIGN followed by a conversation with the film's director Francesca Molteni, Co-curator Maria Cristina Didero, architect Franco Audrito, and the producer Evan Snyderman. Moderated by Felix Burrichter. For Tickets
At 5:00 we will screen the world premiere of Aries Mateus: Matter in Reverse which will be followed by a Q&A with the director Henrique Pina and producer João Miguel Couto Duarte. For Tickets
At 7:00 we will screen Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place. For Tickets |
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TODAY'S FILMS: NOVEMBER 5TH
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SUPERDESIGN - World Premiere Nov 5 @ 4:30 Conversation with Director Francesca Molteni, co-curator Maria Cristine Didero, Evan Snyderman and Franco Audrito. Moderated by Felix Burrichter. Purchase Tickets |
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SUPERDESIGN Director: Francesca Molteni 2017 / 62 min / Italy
Screening with Ford House Director: Spirit of Space 2017 / 5 min / USA
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SUPERDESIGN is a film about the Italian Radical Movement in architecture & design in the 1960’s and 70’s. Through the words and stories of people who were part of that movement, we retrace the history and the heritage of the movement. They take us back to that time when everything seemed possible.
The mid-1960s represented a revolutionary time when the need for change has spread everywhere in the Western world and has pervaded [read more]
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Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse - World Premiere Nov 5 @ 5:00 Q&A with Director Henrique Pina and Producers Maria Joao and Joao Miguel Purchase Tickets |
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Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse Director: Henrique Pina 2017 / 65 min / Portugal
Screening with Ghost Story Director: Sarah Elgart 2017 / 7 min / USA
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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. [read more]
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Building Hope: The Maggies's Centres - U.S. Premiere Nov 5 @ 2:30 Q&A with Director and Architect Chris McVoy Purchase Tickets |
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Building Hope: The Maggies's Centres Directed: Sarah Howitt 2016 / 59 min / UK – US Premiere
Screening with Community by Design: Skid Row Housing Trust Director: Myles Kramer 2017 / 4 min / USA
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This fascinating story of Maggie's, a unique cancer charity, began life in Edinburgh in 1996. In 1993, Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was told she had three months to live. On hearing this devastating news she was left to sit on a plastic chair in a hospital corridor. The only place she could find to cry was a toilet cubicle. Her husband and co-founder Charles Jencks, said: [read more]
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Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place - U.S. Premiere |
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Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place Director: Catherine Hunter 2017 / 59 min / Australia
screening with: A Room of their Own 2017 / 3 min / USA Winner of the People’s Choice Award from American Institute of Architects’ I Look Up Film Challenge 2017
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Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place explores the life and art of Australia’s most famous living architect. Murcutt’s extraordinary international reputation rests on the beauty and integrity of his work. With a swag of international awards (including the prestigious Pritzker Prize) Murcutt has literally put Australian architecture on the world map. And yet, by choice, he has never built outside his own country. [read more]
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Program 4 The Diplomat, the Artist & the Suit Nov 5 @ 4:45 Purchase Tickets |
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The Diplomat, the Artist & the Suit Director: Paul Goldman 2016 / 57 min / Australia
Screening with DeLightFuL – Design, Light, Future, Living Director: Matteo Garrone 2016 / 9 min / Italy
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We are invited into the extraordinary minds of Bill Corker, Barrie Marshall and John Denton, three intriguing and very different characters who have been friends since university. We learn how the trio formed Denton Corker Marshall and how their unique personalities and distinctive skills have coalesced into a unique working relationship that has created visionary buildings, not only in Australia but worldwide. Denton Corker Marshall has produced distinct, innovative [read more]
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Getting Frank Gehry Director: Sally Aitken 59 min / 2015 / Australia
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The University of Technology, Sydney’s new business school, is Frank Gehry’s daring ‘Treehouse project’, otherwise known as the 'crumpled brown paper bag’ to its critics. At first sight, the school will almost certainly shock anyone [read more]
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Zaha: An Architectural Legacy
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Zaha: An Architectural Legacy Directors: Jim Stephenson & Laura Mark 2017 / 27 min / UK
Screening with Jean Nouvel: Reflections Director: Matt Tyrnauer 2016 / 15 min / USA
Queen of Asbury Park Director: Jillian Buckley 2017 / 10 min / USA
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A year after Zaha Hadid died, this film takes a look at Zaha’s career and legacy through five chapters and buildings which signalled significant progressions in her work. The film takes us from her initial drawings and paintings while at the Architectural Association to her first built project at Vitra, then on to the Stirling Prize-winning MAXXI which secured her place in the architectural canon, then to the London Aquatics Centre – a building which made her known among the public – and finally finishing with the Maths Gallery at the Science Museum, completed just months after her death. [read more]
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner Director: Catherine Ledner & Roy Beeson 2017 / 47 min / US
Screening with Isay Weinfeld Director: Jillian Buckley 2016 / 9 min / USA
A Choice to Make Director: Eric Reinholdt & Trent Bell 2017 / 8 min / USA
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This documentary is an in-depth exploration of an influential New Orleans modernist architect, whose buildings for the National Maritime Union in the 1960s are now iconic figures in the NYC landscape. The film follows Albert Ledner’s journey from post WWII student of Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin to the present day where Ledner continues to work and innovate at the age of 93. With interviews and on-site tours of his buildings, Albert details his thoughts and personal inspirations for his varied and experimental designs.[read more]
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Columbus Director: Kogonada 2017 / 104 min / USA
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Columbus is the first, feature length fiction film screened by ADFF. With its naturalistic rhythms, its focus on architecture and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada's Columbus unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. [read more]
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