The EastPoint Project GOFF The Man & The Architect - Jørn The New Bauhaus That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Director: Hana Waugh Director: Britni Harris Utzon Director: Alysa Nahmias Wright in Los Angeles 2019 / 5 min / USA / 2019 Film Challenge 2018 / 91 min / USA Directors: Lene Borch and Anna von Lowzow 2019 / 85 min / USA Director: Christopher Hawthorne The EastPoint Project on the northeast side of 2018 / 90 min / Denmark 2018 / 56 min / USA Oklahoma City is a reimagined outdoor mall given new life through a parternship between the architects at Gardner, the developers at Pivot Project, and Oklahoma City. The project aims to be a catalyst, to encourage public and private developers to invest in the east side, and to inspire the community to envision what the neighborhood could become by rebuilding, rehabilitating, and infilling empty lots. As a product of the partnership, EastPoint hopes to be the first of many new developments where ownership is a part of the leasing agreement, so that eastside business owners to have the opportunity to hold equity in the real estate to This documentary about Jørn Utzon tells the Fleeing from Germany as the Nazis invaded in the lead up to World War II, László Moholy-Nagy which they help give value. personal and emotional story about the world- renowned architect and his unique gift. Behind came to Chicago in 1937 to start the New him stood the love of his life through 70 years, Bauhaus. Despite some initial struggles, During his time in Southern California in the Moholy-Nagy and his New Bauhaus forever Lis, without whom Jørn would not have become 1910s and early 1920s, Frank Lloyd Wright Escher: Journey Into Infinity Bruce Goff was one of the greatest American transformed design, photography, and arts Director: Robin Lutz architects of the 20th century. His the architect and man he was. His story is told education. The film offers an intimate, emotional accelerated the search for an authentic L.A. by the people who were closest to him for architecture that might be experimental but also 2018/ 80 min / Netherlands unconventional perspective challenged stigmas journey through Moholy-Nagy’s life and his work about the Midwest’s inability to produce decades: his children, close colleagues, and as an artist, designer, responsive to the city’s history, culture, and Based on more than 1,000 letters, diaries, and innovative work. A peer to Frank Lloyd Wright, friends, who all share anecdotes and visionary, and teacher. landscape. Writer/director Christopher lectures, Journey Into Infinity is the story of the his work had a profound influence on the next experiences in an open and honest fashion. Hawthorne, architecture critic for the Los world-famous Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher. generation of architects, including Phillip Angeles Times, explores the five Maya-inspired The film traces Escher’s inspirations through Johnson and Frank Gehry. However, Goff’s Mario Botta. The Space Beyond houses the legendary architect built in Los his own words, and features interviews with willingness to explore unprecedented forms Of Vineyards and Shoeboxes Angeles in that period. The documentary also Escher’s sons and musician Graham Nash Directors: Loretta Dalpozzo and Michèle Volontè delves into the critic’s provocative theory that often solicited polarized perspectives of his Director: Günter Atteln (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), who discusses work. As a result of establishing his practice in 2018 / 77 min / Switzerland these designs were a means of artistic catharsis Escher’s rediscovery in the ’70s. Viewers also an otherwise conservative landscape and his 2019 / 58 min / Germany for Wright, who was recovering from a violent, tragic episode in his life. see Escher’s continued influence on comic unabashed desire to experiment with the In recent years, numerous important strips, advertising, movies, and art. possibilities of form, much of his work has been concert halls have opened their doors to Sponsored by Dr. Lawrence Spinelli left to decay, or forgotten altogether. GOFF the public, drawing attention to an almost explores the life of an iconoclast and chronicles unknown guild: the acousticians. Without Frey II: The Architectural the events that lead to the destruction and their precise calculations, architects would Interpreter renewed interest of his memory and dwellings. be lost, and prestigious buildings such as What It Takes to Make a Home Director: Jake Gorst the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg or the new Directors: Giovanna Borasi and Daniel Schwartz Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow would be 2019 / 28 min / Canada 2020 / 90 min / USA The Human Shelter ineffectual. Of Vineyards And Shoeboxes Director: Boris Benjamin Bertram is a journey through the world of sound, 2018 / 57 min / Denmark accompanying world class acousticians who work at the intersection of physics and art. PUSH The documentary directed and produced by Loretta Dalpozzo and Michèle Volontè is a rare, Director: Fredrik Gertten in-depth artistic journey into the work of Swiss 2019 / 90 min / Sweden architect Mario Botta. The film explores Botta’s ever-growing curiosity and reflections on the contradictions of society through his sacred spaces. Passionate, tireless, Botta is one of the few architects who has built places of prayer for the three main monotheistic religions and is now What does it mean to live in the city without a Audience members watch a film in the Museum’s Great Hall using wireless headsets. designing a mosque in China. place you can call your own? What role can architects have in addressing homelessness? In 1939, Swiss-born Corbusian architectural Masters of Modern Design: And how can cities become a better home for A Place of Second Chances Bud Bailey envoy Albert Frey embarked on a decades-long The Human Shelter is an epic, poetic journey all? This film follows a conversation between A Building Shaped by Light: Austin investigating how we, as human beings, design Director: HMC Architects Director: Baron Necaise journey of discovery. His world travels and love The Art of the Japanese American architects Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Central Library of nature would lead him to carve out a new and build our homes. The film explores the Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who have been Directors: Johnny McAllister and Annie Silverstein 2019 / 5 min / USA / 2019 Film Challenge 2019 / 5 min / USA / 2019 Film Challenge style of modernism, leaving its indelible mark on concept of “home” and how humans express Experience grappling with these questions over many years Bud Bailey is a multifamily affordable-housing the desert community of Palm Springs, themselves creatively within that sacred space, Director: Akira Boch and through various projects. While the cities 2019 / 5 min / USA / 2019 Film Challenge California. With never-before-seen archival whether it’s a lagoon settlement in Lagos, a project located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bud 2019 / 56 min / USA Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around and the political and economic contexts in Bailey provides housing for low-income, films, photographs, and interviews, Frey II: The refugee camp in Iraq, or a six square-meter the world while incomes remain stagnant. PUSH which Maltzan and Hagner work differ, both refugee, and previously homeless individuals. Architectural Interpreter continues to reveal the dwelling in Tokyo. From the hand-drawn typeface on the cover of sheds light on the “faceless landlord”― search for long-term strategies for housing Affordable housing has become such a huge mystique of an influential architectural master. The Godfather to Herman Miller’s biomorphic increasingly unlivable cities, and an escalating instead of reacting with ad hoc solutions. problem in recent years, so we hope it can This film is the second part of a two-part coffee table, the work of Japanese American inequality crisis that threatens all walks of life. Focusing on some causes and conditions of become a model for what affordable housing documentary. Frey: Part I - The Architectural Instruments in the Architecture: designers including Ruth Asawa, George The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special homelessness, the film questions the role should look like: clean, safe, and affordable Envoy was released in 2018. Building The Pianodrome Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, S. Neil Fujita, and Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she architects can play toward overcoming the living for those in need. Gyo Obata permeated postwar culture. While travels the globe, trying to understand who’s stigmatization of people experiencing it, in order Directors: Austen McCowan and Will Hewitt these second-generation Japanese American being pushed out of the city, and why. to build more inclusive cities. Gateways to New York 2019 / 14 min / UK artists have been celebrated, less-discussed is CANOPY Director: Martin Witz Pianos are being thrown away at a tremendous how their World War II incarceration—a period Directors: Laurie Little and Odile Compagnon 2018 / 88 min / Switzerland rate: hauled away, set on fire, and their valuable of intense hardship and discrimination—had a powerful effect on their lives and art. 2019 / 5 min / USA / 2019 Film Challenge heavy metal sold for scrap. Tim and Leon and their team of inspired artists, musicians, At 1330 South Pulaski, in North Lawndale, and volunteers have reclaimed these unloved Miracle on 42nd Street Chicago, a PermaPark is taking shape at one instruments to build the world’s first 100-seat of the few green spaces in this 150-year- amphitheatre made entirely from up-cycled Director: Alice Elliott A Place of Second Chances presents the old neighborhood. The “food forest” of trees, pianos. Balancing the artistic integrity of Tim’s 2017 / 68 min / USA hopeful stories of two individuals who prove that shrubs, and community space is being built by vision with Leon’s practicality and realism tests the tide of recidivism can be reversed, when the locals, students, and others, guided by Odile the strength of their relationship as they race prison is designed to comfort and rehabilitate, Compagnon, architect and faculty at the School to complete the Pianodrome for its debut at the The new Austin Central Library was designed rather than simply punish.