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September 12, 2018
Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) and Soho Design District present our 5th Annual Short Films Walk (SFW) on October 3rd from 5pm–9pm. Each of the 12 participating Soho showrooms will screen a unique program of shorts films curated by ADFF. The films will be shown on a loop throughout the evening so guests have the chance to view dozens of terrific short films as they walk from showroom to showroom.
You’re invited to stroll these 12 amazing Soho showrooms and view more than 36 short films while meeting friends and enjoying free great food and drinks along the way. CLICK HERE TO RSVP.
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The Glass Ark
Director: Claudio Espósito
The unedited filmic
journey of The Piranesi Experience, produced for Stahlbau Pichler, is off to
discover MUSE, the new Science Museum of Trento, Italy designed by the Renzo
Piano Building Workshop. We catch sight of how this building was conceived as part of a broader project for redrawing a
fragment of the city.
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Charlotte Perriand: Les Arcs
Director: Spirit of Space
This film about architect Charlotte Perriand's Les Arcs Resort in the
French Alps was created for the installation "Past Forward: Architecture
and Design at the Art Institute".
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The Dream
Director: Jacob Gossett
& Danny Scales
A look inside the
creative process as artist and designer Fernando Mastrangelo employs his
signature casting technique and material palette to create his first full-scale
interior space, "The Dream". Taking inspiration from Henri Rousseau's
paintings, Mastrangelo sets out to create a conceptual, yet functional space
where our connection to landscape and nature becomes unified with the materials
he uses to build spaces. Here, wall becomes mountain, sofa becomes earth, and
rug becomes terrain.
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| | Director: Jillian Buckley
His basic philosophy about “the making of a pleasant space”
applies to all of architect Peter Bohlin’s work, especially within his most
ubiquitous designs for the early Apple stores. Interior Design Magazine’s Cindy
Allen interviews Bohlin about the remarkable moments from his 50-year career
designing architectural gems for the likes of Girl Scouts, Steve Jobs and Bill
Gates.
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| | The Spring Garden School
No. 1 in North Philadelphia had been sitting vacant and abandoned for nearly 30
years before the Philadelphia Housing Authority teamed with the non-profit Help
USA to convert the property into affordable housing. Philadelphia is currently
experiencing a massive building boom and people are worried about the city
losing its neighborhoods and character.
A selection from 2018 AIA Film Challenge.
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Innerspace
Directors: Ma Yansong & Shen Wei
Architecture and dance converge in Innerspace
– a short film by the principal of MAD Architects, Ma Yansong, and
choreographer Shen Wei. Innerspace highlights the architecture and
scale of Ma Yansong’s Harbin Opera House through dance, emphasizing how it is
inherently theatrical in both its performance of narrative spaces, and its
context within the landscape.
Photo by Adam Mørk
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RegenCities: Economic Regeneration in South L.A.
Director: Bobby Pitts
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) launched its RegenCities
Initiative to further define the regenerative city — a concept of sustainable
urban development built on a restorative relationship with the environment. The
South LA Regeneration video is the first step of a multi-phased approach to
developing regeneration strategies for the City of Los Angeles. |
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Frank Gehry: Creating Feeling
Director: Emile Rafael
The director Emile Rafael presents a moving architectural journey
through Paris's Foundation Louis Vuitton, designed by Frank Gehry. The film
features a candid interview with the iconic American architect, whose buildings
seem to defy gravity itself.
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Mies Van Der Rohe - Architecture as Language
Director: Alexandre Favre
A short video going through Mies van der Rohe’s thinking expressed
by the architect’s own words. A personal project by Alexandre Favre shot with a
10mm Kern Switar and a Bolex.
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Blast of Wind
Director: Claudio Espósito
MMM Corones, the final of
the six mountaintop museums built by Reinhold Messner and situated on the
summit plateau of Kronplatz, came out of Zaha Hadid Architects' ingenious
minds. Glazed façades and steel structures compose a fluid space that offers
spectacular views of the Dolomites, where the bravest climbers accomplished
their feats. In this film, produced by The Piranesi Experience for Stahlbau Pichler,
the building appears candid and majestic, as if waiting to be freed from the
rock.
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A Simple Life
Director: Jeff Durkin
Architect Jonathan
Segal's elegant glass and concrete apartment block goes beyond aesthetics to
solve a variety of problems facing cities today. Its 56-unit density fights
suburban sprawl, its location along a major corridor gives residents options to
bike, walk or Uber, and its solid walls of glass flood the spaces with natural
light, giving the residents what they crave a simple life.
A selection from 2018 AIA Film Challenge.
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Directors: Paul Clemence & Aksel Stasny
Featuring high profile
projects by renowned architects Renzo Piano, Mario Botta and Christ &
Gantenbein, this short film takes the viewer on an intimate and immersive ride
through four of Switzerland’s most prestigious art museums – Fondation Beyeler,
Museum Tinguely, Zentrum Paul Klee and Kunstmuseum Basel. Atmospheric in
concept and bearing on abstraction, the film finds moments of space that are at
once poetic and imbued with architectural expression, creating a powerful and
personal connection to the structures portrayed.
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