VIEW BY PROGRAM Program 01: The Vignellis Design is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli Program 04: Visionaries Mendelsohn s Incessant Visions The Invisible Bicycle Helmet Building a Relationship Program 07: Long Island Modern Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island Newtown Creek Digester Eggs: The Art of Human Waste Program 10: Partners 24/7 Life Architecturally Jeanne Gang: The Sky s the Limit Daeyang Gallery & House Program 02: Culture Statements Mission Statements: The Architecture of Dutch Diplomacy Paraiso Machine for Life Program 05: Growing through Knowing Design & Thinking RUMBLE: A Film Program 08: West Coast Modern Coast Modern Ontario: An Assessment Program 11: Only in NY 16 Acres The Standard, NY Program 03: Opera Architect: A Chamber Opera in Six Scenes Program 06: The Public Realm Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line Canopy + Connection: United Visual Water from Above Program 09: Bauhaus Bauhaus Model & Myth Program 12: The Creative Process From Nothing, Something The Lighthouse 16 Acres Architect: A Chamber Opera in Six Scenes Bauhaus Model & Myth Building a Relationship Canopy + Connection: United Visual Coast Modern Daeyang Gallery & House Design & Thinking Design is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line From Nothing, Something Invisible Bicycle Helmet, The Jeanne Gang: The Sky s the Limit ALPHBETACAL LIST OF FILMS Life Architecturally Lighthouse, The Machine for Life Mendelsohn s Incessant Visions Mission Statements: The Architecture of Dutch Diplomacy Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island Newtown Creek Digester Eggs: The Art of Human Waste Ontario: An Assessment Paraiso RUMBLE: A Film Standard NY, The Water from Above
VIEW BY DATE & TIME THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18th 8:00 pm, Allen Room at the Time Warner Center (all other screening at Tribeca Cinemas) 16 Acres Directed by Richard Hankin (2012) 93 min; English, USA; U.S. Premiere 16 Acres is the story of the plans for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, as told by the key players who have shaped it. At the heart of the story is the dramatic tension between noblest intentions and the politics, hubris, and ideology that are the bedrock of New York. Presented in collaboration with the Municipal Art Society. The film will be shown at Tribeca Cinemas on Friday, October 19, and Sunday, October 21. Q&A with the filmmakers and others 9:15 pm, Theater 1; 9:30 pm, Theater 2: The Vignellis Design is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli Directed by Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra (2012) 80 min; English, USA; World Premiere This film is an intimate view of Italian-born Lella and Massimo Vignelli, who are among the world s most influential and highly acclaimed designers. Their work, which encompasses a diversity of types and styles, is known across the globe, even if many people don t know their names. Throughout their career, the Vignellis motto has been, If you can t find it, design it. Their achievements in industrial and product design; graphic and publication design; corporate identity programs; architectural graphics; and exhibition, interior, and furniture design have earned numerous national and international awards over four decades. Q&A with the directors VIEW BY DATE & TIME FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th 5:00 pm, Theater 2: The Creative Process From Nothing, Something Directed by Tim Cawley (2012) 79 min; English, USA; New York Premiere Everyone has ideas, but where do they come from, and what ensures that they keep coming? How does one sort the ingenious ideas from useless ones? And why invest all this hope and energy into making things in the first place? From Nothing, Something profiles creative thinkers across numerous disciplines to examine individual methods, habits, beliefs, and neuroses that have lead to breakthroughs. This is a thoughtful, intimate, often funny look at the creative process from some of our culture s most accomplished and inspiring talents.
The Lighthouse Directed by Martin Glegg (2012) 12 min; English, Scotland; U.S. Premiere This short follows a group of young architects as they embark on constructing a lighthouse on a beautiful remote Scottish island. The film highlights the growing gap between digital design and getting one s hands dirty. Q&A with Tim Cawley, director, From Nothing, Something 7:00 pm, Theater 1: Only in NY 16 Acres Directed by Richard Hankin (2012) 93 min; English, USA; U.S. Premiere See Thursday, October 18. The Standard, NY Directed by Catherine Camille Cushman and Stephen Blaise (2011) 6 min; English, USA Architect Todd Schliemann, of Ennead Architects, discusses the process and context for the design and construction of The Standard Hotel, in New York City. Q&A with director and filmmakers of 16 Acres 7:15 pm, Theater 2: Long Island Modern Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island Directed by Jake Gorst (2012) 86 min; English, USA Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island explores the Long Island work of some of the greatest postwar architects and designers, including Albert Frey, Wallace Harrison, Herbert Beckhard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Horace Gifford, Edward Durrell Stone, Marcel Breuer, Andrew Geller, Philip Johnson, Charles Gwathmey, and Barbara and Julian Neski, among others. The film features interviews with architects and historians, as well as with friends, families, and clients of these influential designers. Both rare archival material and present-day high-definition cinematography reveal Long Island s often underappreciated modernist treasures, many of which have disappeared due to redevelopment or natural disasters. Newtown Creek Digester Eggs: The Art of Human Waste Directed by David W. Leitner (2011) 3 min; English, USA The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, epitomizes what can be achieved when progressive government works with local activists to adopt the latest technology. The plant s digester eggs egg-shaped structures that process large amounts of sludge have won awards for their design; they were made possible by New York City s Percent for Art program. Q&A with director Jake Gorst and others; moderated by architect Tomas Rossant
9:15 pm, Theater 1: Culture Statements. Mission Statements: The Architecture of Dutch Diplomacy Directed by Jord den Hollander (2011) 60 min; Dutch with English subtitles, Netherlands In 1991, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands decided to promote national architecture abroad by building new embassies designed by prominent Dutch architects. The buildings were a testament to highly original architecture, while also representing Dutch diplomacy. International critics wrote enthusiastically about this mission-driven architecture, and many of the designs were rewarded with prizes. In 2007, for example, the Dutch embassy in Addis Ababa received a prestigious Aga Khan Award. Paraiso Directed by Nadav Kurtz (2012) 10 min; Spanish with English subtitles, USA This short film follows three immigrant window-cleaners who risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago s tallest sky-scrapers. Machine for Life Directed by Ruth Somalo (2012) 3 min; English, USA; World Premiere Inspired by a series of conversations about architecture between filmmaker Ruth Somalo and designer Suchi Reddy, this short film draws on Le Corbusier s concept of the mechanized and his ideas on the relationship among architecture, design, experience, and emotion. In the film, a space traveler arrives in a 375-square-foot apartment, which sets the scene for a tantalizing love story. Q&A with Mission Statements director Jord den Hollander 9:30 pm, Theater 2: West Coast Modern Coast Modern Directed by Gavin Froome and Mike Bernard (2012) 75 min; English, USA; New York Premiere Traveling along the Pacific Northwest coastline from Los Angeles to Vancouver, this documentary showcases the pioneers of West Coast modernist architecture and the houses that have become their legacies. Stepping inside the most inspired dwellings on the West Coast, viewers see how, in a classic Modernist house, light and space work in collaboration with the natural environment in which the building is sited. Ontario: An Assessment Directed by Orly Shuber (2011) 11 min; English, USA; New York Premiere Sam Lubell, journalist, photographer, and editor of The Architect s Newspaper, takes audiences on an architectural tour of the city of Ontario, California, in the area east of Los Angeles known as the Inland Empire. Q&A with Coast Modern directors Gavin Froome and Mike Bernard
3:00 pm, Theater 1: Visionaries Mendelsohn s Incessant Visions Directed by Duki Dror (2011) 77 min; English, Israel VIEW BY DATE & TIME SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20th In March 1933, German Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn fled Berlin for Amsterdam, having been stripped of his membership in the Architects Union and foreseeing graver consequences from Hitler s rise to power. In the Amsterdam train station, he and his wife bumped into an acquaintance, the head of Germany s largest architectural firm in the Netherlands, and told him that he was re-locating his office. As the film recounts, this would not be the last time that Mendelsohn would start over in a foreign land. The Invisible Bicycle Helmet Directed by Fredrik Gertten (2012) 3 min; Swedish with English subtitles, Sweden Design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project. They wanted to create something no one had done before: an invisible bike helmet. They see the bicycle as a tool to change the world, and such a helmet as truly revolutionary. Building a Relationship Directed by Brittany J. Portman (2012) 2 min; English, USA; World Premiere This short film set in New York City presents a dialogue about urban blight and redevelopment between two talking buildings named Red Brick and Steele N. Glass. Q&A with director Duki Dror 3:15 pm, Theater 2: Opera Architect: A Chamber Opera in Six Scenes Directed by Jenny Kallick (2012) 63 min; English, USA Inspired by the life and work of Louis Kahn who stated that to hear a sound is to see a space Architect is a meditation on creativity and the inner life of the creator. Events are set in motion by the Trickster god Momus. The council of gods expels this impish minor deity to Earth, where he seeks to inspire mortals to create buildings. Q&A with director Jenny Kallick and composer Lew Spratlan 5:00 pm, Theater 2: Growing through Knowing Design & Thinking Directed by Mu-Ming Tsai (2012) 75 min; English, Taiwan Inspired by the concept of design thinking, this documentary comprises interviews with business people, designers, social-change makers, and assorted individuals in order to
explore what they have in common when facing this ambiguous 21st century. Interviewees include Vince Veron, head of design at Coca-Cola; Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO; David Kelley, founder of Stanford University s design school; designer William Moggridge, who designed the first laptop and was director of the Cooper-Hewett National Design Museum, in New York City; George Beylerian, of Material ConnXion; and many others. RUMBLE: A Film Directed by David Fenster (2011) 16 min; English, USA; New York Premiere RUMBLE is the name of the annual end-of-year exhibition at UCLA s School of Architecture and Urban Design. It is a major event that represents the school s commitment to sharing idea-driven work with a broad audience in Los Angeles and around the globe. During two days in June, RUMBLE brings together critics, alumni, faculty, and friends to consider a broad range of rigorous research and speculation created by its students over the academic year. Because RUMBLE has become such a highly anticipated event, the School invited filmmaker David Fenster to document the bold vibe and vitality of RUMBLE in spring 2011. 5:15 pm, Theater 1: The Creative Process See Friday, October 19, 5:00 pm Q&A with Tim Cawley, director, From Nothing, Something 7:00 pm, Theater 2: Partners 24/7 Life Architecturally Directed by Britt Arthur (2011) 52 min; English, Australia Life Architecturally follows the internationally acclaimed husband-and-wife team of architect Robert McBride and interior designer Debbie Ryan, uncovering what inspires their innovative architectural concepts and designs. This intimate documentary observes the pressures of building a multi-story, twin-tower development; revolutionary new schools one in the shape of an infinity symbol; and their own family home, which is on the backburner thanks to the demands of their other projects. Additionally, McBride and Ryan are part of an international consortium that has been short-listed for the design and construction of Melbourne s new billion-dollar Cancer Care Centre. Jeanne Gang: The Sky s the Limit Directed by Daniel Andries (2011) 14 min; English, USA; New York Premiere Chicago, the country s third-largest city, is a culturally vibrant place. It offers acclaimed theater; improvisational comedy; classical music; jazz, blues, and hip hop artists; and eminent writers. But Chicago is best understood through its architecture. Architect Jeanne Gang, of Studio Gang Architects, is at the forefront of Chicago architecture today, respected for her vision of imaginative, sustainable, and socially responsible design. Jeanne Gang: The Sky s the Limit, produced for PBS, provides insight into Gang s working methods and current projects, and also highlights past successes, including the 2010 Chicago skyscraper Aqua.
Daeyang Gallery & House Directed by Adam Goss and Red Mike (2012) 3 min; English, USA Feel the serenity. Experience the passage of time. Listen to the trickling water. See light dance on the walls and floor. This is architect Steven Holl s Daeyang Gallery & House, in Seoul, Korea. 7:15 pm, Theater 1: The Public Realm Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line Directed by Muffie Dunn and Tom Piper (2012) 54 min; English, USA Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design. The interdisciplinary firm, founded in 1979, first stirred interest with its provocative exhibitions of theoretical projects that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture. In 1999, founding principals Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio were awarded a prestigious genius prize by the MacArthur Foundation in recognition of their commitment to integrating architecture with issues of contemporary culture. This film examines the process by which the firm re- imagined the public identities of two major New York City spaces. Canopy + Connection: United Visual Artists Directed by Sarah Keenlyside (2011) 5 min; English, Canada; New York Premiere Canopy and Connection are the first permanent public artworks by the London-based artand- design practice United Visual Artists. This short documentary explores the beauty and detail of both of these light-based installations, which were inspired by their location in Toronto s Maple Leaf Square. Water from Above Directed by Gala Lutteroth Kochen (2012) 12 min; English, Mexico; U.S. Premiere This short film is a portrayal of one of New York City s most important and iconic urban structures its water tanks as seen through the eyes of people on the street, those who manufacture the tanks, and two artists who find them beautiful. Q&A with directors Muffie Dunn and Tom Piper 9:15 pm, Theater 2: Bauhaus Bauhaus Model & Myth Directed by Kerstin Stutterheim and Niels Bolbrinker (2010) 103 min; German with English subtitles, Germany Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school sought to reconcile fine arts with crafts, creating a new aesthetic that would serve industry. The Bauhaus was one of the twentieth century s most important schools of art, and remains a key reference in the vocabulary of modern architecture and design internationally. Its faculty included major artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Oskar Schlemmer, and architects such as Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. This film looks at the post-world War I origins of the Bauhaus and its revolutionary influence. Using accounts by alumni and archival materials, it also examines the underlying story behind the school s closing.
9:30 pm, Theater 1: West Coast Modern See Friday, October 19, 9:30 pm Q&A with Gavin Froome and Mike Bernard, directors, Coast Modern VIEW BY DATE & TIME SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21th 2:45 pm, Theater 2: Bauhaus See Saturday, October 20, 9:15 pm 3:00 pm, Theater 1: Visionaries See Saturday, October 20, 3:00 pm Q&A with Duki Dror, director, Mendelsohn s Incessant Visions 5:00 pm, Theater 1: The Public Realm See Saturday, October 20, 7:15 pm Q&A with Muffie Dunn and Tom Piper, directors, Diller Scofidio + Renfro: 5:15 pm, Theater 2: Long Island Modern See Friday, October 19, 7:15 pm Q&A with Jake Gorst, director, Modern Tide: 7:15 pm, Theater 1: Only in NY See Friday 7:00pm Q&A with Richard Hankin, director, 16 Acres 7:30 pm, Theater 2: Culture Statements See Friday, October 19, 9:15 pm Q&A with Jord den Hollander, director, Mission Statements: 9:30 pm, Theater 1: The Vignellis See Thursday, October 18, 9:15 pm Q&A with directors Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra 9:45 pm, Theater 2: Partners 24/7 See Saturday, October 20, 7:00 pm