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Nov 4, 2017
Day 4 of the festival will be a full day — with 14 screenings. At 1:30 the New York premiere of The Gamble House will be followed by a Q&A with the producer Lori Korngiebel and Edward “Ted” Bosley, the director of The Gamble House, a National Historic Landmark designed by Charles and Henry Greene. For TicketsAt 3:30 ADFF will screen Designing Life: The Modernist Architecure of Albert C. Ledner followed by a Q&A with the architect Albert Ledner and the film co-directors Catherine Ledner and Roy Beeson. This screening is co-presented with DOCOMOMO New York/Tri-State. For TicketsAt 4:15 we will screen Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect with welcome remarks by Ciarán Madden, the Consul General of Ireland. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with legendary architect Kevin Roche and the film's director Mark Noonan. Moderated by the architect Kevin Kennon. For TicketsAt 4:45 we will screen the world premiere of Aries Mateus:Matter in Reverse which will be followed by a Q&A with the director Henrique Pina and others. For Tickets
The 9:30 screening of REM is sold out, a rush line will begin at 8:30
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TODAY'S FILMS: NOVEMBER 4TH
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Made in Ilima - World Premiere
Nov 4 @ 7:30 Q&A with Director Thatcher Bean Purchase Tickets |
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Made in Ilima
Director: Thatcher Bean
2017/ 65 min / USA
Screening with
Pisces
Director: Brad Deal
2017 / 3 min / USA
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In the center of Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Ilima community remains one of the most isolated in the world. They have coexisted with endangered wildlife in their surrounding forest for generations, but as the pace of development has increased, this fragile ecosystem has suffered.
In 2012 they partnered with the African Wildlife Foundation and the architecture firm, MASS Design Group to create a new conservation focused [read more]
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SUPERDESIGN - World Premiere
Nov 4 @ 5:30 Purchase Tickets
Nov 5 @ 4:30 Conversation with Director Francesca Molteni, co-curator Maria Cristine Didero, Evan Snyderman and Franco Audrito. Moderated by Felix Burrichter. Purchase Tickets |
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SUPERDESIGN
Director: Francesca Molteni
2017 / 62 min / Italy
Screening with
Ford House
Director: Spirit of Space
2017 / 5 min / USA
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SUPERDESIGN is a film about the Italian Radical Movement in architecture & design in the 1960’s and 70’s. Through the words and stories of people who were part of that movement, we retrace the history and the heritage of the movement. They take us back to that time when everything seemed possible.
The mid-1960s represented a revolutionary time when the need for change has spread everywhere in the Western world and has pervaded [read more]
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Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse - World Premiere
Nov 4 @ 4:45 Q&A with Director Henrique Pina and Producers Maria Joao and Joao Miguel Purchase Tickets
Nov 5 @ 5:00 Q&A with Director Henrique Pina and Producers Maria Joao and Joao Miguel Purchase Tickets |
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Aires Mateus: Matter in Reverse
Director: Henrique Pina
2017 / 65 min / Portugal
Screening with
Ghost Story
Director: Sarah Elgart
2017 / 7 min / USA
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The work of the architects at Aires Mateus clearly shows contemporaneity - in its complexity and contradiction - a difficult condition to express in the realm of architecture. The extent of the work that they've been developing for many years confirms this. Their proposals develop a language with a strong universal impact. From this universality emerges an adaptation to the territory rooted in a clear Portuguese tradition. [read more]
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Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair? - World Premiere
Nov 4 @ 2:45 Q&A with Architect Michael Sorkin, Director Mina Chow Purchase Tickets |
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Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair?
Director: Mina Chow
2017 / 57 min / USA
Screening with
The Future of Cities
Director: Oscar Boyson
2016 / 18 min / USA
A Little Alcove: San Francisco Navigation Center
Director: Julian Pham
2017 / 4 min / USA
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Daughter of immigrants, an idealistic architect struggles to keep her dream alive as she journeys to discover why America abandoned World’s Fairs. For generations of Americans, World’s Fairs captured visions of hope for the future as part of their collective memory. Mina Chow became fascinated with World’s Fairs when she saw pictures of her parents at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Beginning with their stories, Mina shares this legacy and the American values that inspired her to become an architect. [ Read More ]
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect - U.S. Premiere
Nov 4 @ 4:15 Q&A with Architect Kevin Roche and Director Mark Noonan Moderated by Architect Kevin Kennon Purchase Tickets |
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
Director: Mark Noonan
2017 / 81 min / Ireland
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Still working at age 95, Pritzker Prize-winning, Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He’s reached the top of his profession, but has little interest in celebrity and eschews the label “Starchitect”. Despite a lifetime of acclaimed work that includes the Ford Foundation, Oakland Museum of California and 40 years designing new galleries for The Metropolitan Museum in New York,[read more]
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Integral Man - U.S. Premiere
Nov 4 @ 7:00 Q&A w/ Director Joseph Clement Purchase Tickets |
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Integral Man
Director: Joseph Clement
2016 / 62 min / Canada
Screening with
Cabin at the River
Director: Silvia Zeitlinger
2017 / 8 min / Italy
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After Euclid, Toronto’s Jim Stewart is the most published mathematician in the world. Stewart spent a decade and a small fortune building the home of his dreams to reflect his two obsessions: curves and music. The completed home, called Integral House, provides him with both.
A stunning architectural gem of subtly curved wood and vast, evocative spaces, [read more]
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Dries
Director: Reiner Holzemer
2017 / 90 min / Belgium, Germany
Screening with
Ex of In House
Director: Spirit of Space
2017 / 6 min / USA
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For the first time, fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year Reiner Holzemer documents the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections - the rich fabrics, embroidery and prints exclusive to his designs … as well as the emblematic fashion shows that bring his collections to the world and have become cult “must sees” at Paris Fashion Week. [read more]
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The Neue Nationalgalerie - NY Premiere
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The Neue Nationalgalerie
Director: Ina Weisse
2017 / 49 min / Germany
Screening with
Starship Chicago
Director: Nathan Eddy
2017 / 16 min / USA
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The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an epoch-defining structure by the architect Mies van der Rohe. It was opened in 1968, shortly after his death. Nearly 50 years later, the director Ina Weisse sets out to examine the period during which this unique edifice was constructed. She is the daughter of the architect Rolf Weisse, who once worked in the offices of Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. In numerous interviews with her father and Mies van der Rohe's grandchild Dirk Lohan, along with the architect David Chipperfield [read more]
Photo: Mies van der Rohe © Rolf Weisse
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The Gamble House - NY Premiere
Nov 4 @ 1:30 Q&A with Producer Lori Korngiebel and Ted Bosley Purchase Tickets |
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The Gamble House
Director: Don Hahn
2017 / 58 min / USA
Screening with
Before Design: Classic
Directed by Matteo Garrone
2016 / 7 min / Italy
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| The Gamble House is the incredible story of brothers Charles and Henry Greene who were pushed by their forceful father into a career in architecture only to design and build the most seminal and stunning Arts & Crafts house in America. The house, however, did not come without its price, both personally and professionally, for the Greene brothers, [read more]
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REM
Director: Tomas Koolhaas
2016 / 75 min / USA
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| Architecture is usually filmed from the outside, as an inanimate object. The few depictions of interiors are usually limited to still or static images of an empty building, reducing it to no more than an icon or sculpture. REM, the documentary by Rem Koolhaas's son, uses an unconventional approach [read more] |
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Zaha: An Architectural Legacy
Nov 4 @ 2:00 Purchase Tickets |
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Zaha: An Architectural Legacy
Directors: Jim Stephenson & Laura Mark
2017 / 27 min / UK
Screening with
Jean Nouvel: Reflections
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
2016 / 15 min / USA
Queen of Asbury Park
Director: Jillian Buckley
2017 / 10 min / USA
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| A year after Zaha Hadid died, this film takes a look at Zaha’s career and legacy through five chapters and buildings which signalled significant progressions in her work. The film takes us from her initial drawings and paintings while at the Architectural Association to her first built project at Vitra, then on to the Stirling Prize-winning MAXXI which secured her place in the architectural canon, then to the London Aquatics Centre – a building which made her known among the public – and finally finishing with the Maths Gallery at the Science Museum, completed just months after her death. [read more]
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner
Nov 4 @ 3:30 Q&A with co-directors Catherine Ledner and Roy Beeson Purchase TicketsNov 5 @ 3:00 Q&A with co-directors Catherine Ledner and Roy Beeson Purchase Tickets |
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner
Director: Catherine Ledner & Roy Beeson
2017 / 47 min / US
Screening with
Isay Weinfeld
Director: Jillian Buckley
2016 / 9 min / USA
A Choice to Make
Director: Eric Reinholdt & Trent Bell
2017 / 8 min / USA
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| This documentary is an in-depth exploration of an influential New Orleans modernist architect, whose buildings for the National Maritime Union in the 1960s are now iconic figures in the NYC landscape. The film follows Albert Ledner’s journey from post WWII student of Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin to the present day where Ledner continues to work and innovate at the age of 93. With interviews and on-site tours of his buildings, Albert details his thoughts and personal inspirations for his varied and experimental designs.[read more]
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Columbus
Director: Kogonada
2017 / 104 min / USA
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Columbus is the first feature length fiction film screened by ADFF.
With its naturalistic rhythms, its focus on architecture and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Kogonada's Columbus unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. [read more]
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