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WE THE OTHERS
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Image as
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Materials From
the Earth
Fascinating
Females
Master of
Architecture
Darryl Church, founder of DCA Architects of Transformation, leads the narrative on the designing and building of a unique award-winning home on the picturesque banks of Lake Whakamaru, Aotearoa. The film captures the essence of the location and landscape in a raw, honest, and often humorous, portrait.
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ARTHUR ERICKSON: BEAUTY BETWEEN THE LINES
Through intimate interviews, archival footage and a look at his most famous creations, the film reveals the delicate balance Erickson maintained between his creative genius and the challenges of his personal life, reflecting on the human experience of creativity, ambition and the price of greatness.
SCHINDLER SPACE ARCHITECT
This documentary explores the bohemian genius of the highly acclaimed Schindler House in Los Angeles, investigating R.M. Schindler’s philosophy of ‘space architecture’, while also raising questions about domestic architecture as a living entity that can shape culture and humanity.
LEWERENTZ DIVINE DARKNESS
Sigurd Lewerentz is renowned as one of Sweden’s greatest architects but has long been shrouded in mystery. Recently, a treasure trove of film and sound recordings of Lewerentz was found in a cellar; these recordings form the basis of this unique portrait of a figure often described as: enigmatic, mystical, and technical.
ARCHITECTON
Through the material of concrete and its ancestor: stone, comes an epic and poetic meditation on architecture around the globe. Looking at how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction, it raises a fundamental question: ‘How do we build, and how can we build better?’
THE HOUSE: 6 POINTS OF DEPARTURE + THIS IS NOT A HOUSE
Thom Mayne was guided by the notion of house-to-natural-topography connection when designing the Crawford House + Art collectors Bruce Heavin and Lynda Weinman work with architect Robin Donaldson on an ambitious project.
THE DOCUMERICA PROJECT
E.1027 – EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
Eileen Gray’s villa, E.1027, on the Côte d’Azur is considered a milestone in architectural history. Enjoy a cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray, offering a story about the power of female expression and men’s desire to control it.
MARY HEILMANN: WAVES, ROADS & HALLUCINATIONS
Influenced by 1960s counterculture, the Beatniks, and the free speech movement, Heilmann ranks amongst the most influential abstract painters of her generation. Offering a visually immersive journey, using rare archival material and in-studio conversations, this film explores her approach to art and her life’s practice.
ADA: MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT
Ada Karmi Melamede is one of the most accomplished female architects in the world 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 country’s highest democratic ideals and numerous civic institutions around the country.
WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN
Explore the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin. Heralded as a ‘world builder’ and an ‘architect of language’, Le Guin’s countless essays and poems depict alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality, and ethnography.
VIVA NIKI – THE SPIRIT OF NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE
Investigating the monumental Tarot Garden and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris, Japanese director Michiko Matsumoto guides us on a joyous retrospective of her friend and French American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, by combining photographs from her personal archive, with new footage.
I AM MARTIN PARR
Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to take a hard look at how consumer society has shaped our lives. Discover the maverick behind some of the most iconic images of the past century on an intimate road trip across.
JACQUEMUS: THE PRINCE OF TODAY’S FASHION
The film retraces the story of fashion designer, Simon Porte Jacquemus, founder and artistic director of his brand Jacquemus. Told through 10 years of exclusive archives and backstage footage, we get front row seats from his creative process and how he works with his teams, to the heart of a Jacquemus fashion show.
In the 70s, 100 photographers roamed America to document the environmental movement after 30 years of unbridled consumerism. Nearly 80,000 images encompassed the immensity of a time when America was at its most fragile, in the midst of a social, economic, and political crisis, exacerbated by the Vietnam War.
THE SENSE OF TUNING
Architect Bijoy Jain, of Studio Mumbai, welcomes us into his house and sheds light on the surprising human systems behind the chaos of Mumbai, highlights the tendency to work with local materials, and explains how spaces influence our emotional and physical wellbeing, revealing his life philosophy in a candid and profound manner.
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DALE FRANK NOBODY’S SWEETIE
A charming portrait of Dale Frank, Australia’s foremost contemporary and conceptual artist, eight weeks out from his 40th exhibition. His paintings fund other colourful exploits: his ever-evolving rural estate where he lives amidst the largest private Natural History Collection in Australia, and the building of a 50-hectare exotic arid-zone botanical garden in his backyard.
Acclaimed Brazilian duo Fernando and Humberto Campana, have not only left an indelible mark on the design world but have also been engaged in social initiatives including a vast park where they have planted 20,000 native tree seedlings and are constructing 12 green pavilions.
SITTING STILL
Get inside the mind of distinguished artist, scholar, author, and one of the most renowned and significant landscape architects practicing in the world today, Laurie Olin, whose concerns have defined his life’s work: urbanisation, a lost connection to nature, economic marginalisation, and the grave necessity of humanity in design.
EVER THE LAND
Ten years after its cinematic release, we revisit the powerful story of Ngāi Tūhoe as they undertake the design and construction of a building that will enhance the connection between their people and their land. The result is an architectural gem of a community centre that utilises radically sustainable methods.