ADFF:NY was amazing, now onto Canada!

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Subject: ADFF:NY was amazing, now onto Canada!

October 1, 2024

ADFF:NY was packed with great energy, full houses, stimulating conversations, and a selection of films as good as any ADFF festival in the last 16 years. Here are some images from New York.

Architect Ada Karmi-Melamede, Filmmaker Yael Melamede (Ada – My Mother the Architect), Film Professor Annette Insdorf

ADFF Director Kyle Bergman, Filmmaker Gina Angelone (Sitting Still), Landscape Architect Laurie Olin

Architectural Historian & Critic Martin Filler

Architecture Critic Cynthia Davidson, Architect Peter David Eisenman

Filmmaker Beatrice Minger (E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea), DAAily platforms Managing Editor Claire Brodka

Architect Stephanie Goto, Filmmaker Francesca Molteni (Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz), Ina Novak

Filmmaker Jim Venturi (Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown), Writer Anita Naughton, Kyle Bergman

Author & Architecture Critic Paul Goldberge, Artists Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman, Architect Robin Donaldson

Architect Moshe Safdie, Filmmaker Yael Melamede (Ada – My Mother the Architect)

On Saturday, October 5 Grace Farms and ADFF are partnering to present a special screening of MAU, a brilliant film about global thinker and designer Bruce Mau. The screening will take place in New Cannan, CT.

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Tickets are now on sale for ADFF:Toronto! All screenings are at TIFF Lightbox, arguably the best cinema in North America. Here are a few highlights of this year's festival.

Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

2024 / 81 min / Canada

World Premiere

Oct 23, 7:00 PM + opening night party!

Oct 26, 9:00 PM

Beauty Between the Lines delves into the life and work of Arthur Erickson, a visionary architect in Canada and throughout the world. With intimate interviews, unseen archival footage, and an exploration of architectural masterpieces, the film weaves together the complexities of Erickson's personal and professional life.

Co-presented by Nienkamper.

Ada – My Mother the Architect

2024 / 82 min / Israel, US

Canada Premiere

Oct 26, 3:15 PM

Ada – My Mother the Architect is a deeply moving portrait of an extraordinary woman directed by her daughter, filmmaker and former architect Yael Melamede. Ada is a true pioneer who, like many successful working mothers of her time, was forced to make impossible choices. Despite personal sacrifices, Ada's work gave physical form to some of her home country's highest ideals.

E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

2024 / 90 min / Switzerland

Canada Premiere

Oct 26, 1:00 PM

She built a house for herself. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a masterpiece. Eileen Gray built a refuge on the Côte d‘Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. This is a story about the power of Gray's creative expression and one man's desire to control it.

Co-presented by Bulthaup.

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