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August 4, 2016
We are in full swing planning
our 8th Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) which kicks
off on September 28th and runs through October 2nd. We return to the beautiful theater in Chelsea where we presented last year's festival, which has been renamed Cinepolis Chelsea. |
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WNYC and ADFF Pre-Festival Screenings
It’s with great pleasure that ADFF and NPR's “The
Takeaway” will present three ADFF sneak previews followed by a discussion
moderated by the show's host John Hockenberry. The screenings will
take place at The Green Space, 44 Charlton Street in New York
City.
It's a great opportunity to get a sneak preview of a few
films from this year's festival and
hear John Hockenberry discuss the films with the directors. The complete ADFF
lineup of films will be announced next week.
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| Sept 7 @ 7:00pm Tickets
88
min / 2015 / USA
Directed by Stefan Sagmeister and
Ben Nabors
This is the first NYC screening of The Happy Film since its premiere last
spring at Tribeca Film Festival. It's about the iconic graphic designer
Stefan Sagmeister and his deeply
personal exploration of happiness through a process that only a designer would
create and pursue.
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| Sept 15 @
7:00pm
Tickets
The Architects: A Story of Loss, Memory and Real Estate
70
min / 2016 / USA
Directed by Tom Jennings
This is a sneak
preview of this fall's world premiere at ADFF. We're all familiar
with the present design of the World Trade Center site, but 15 years ago there was an important and public
design competition about what should be built on that site considering its history, symbolism and future. United Architects was a collaboration with Alejandro Zaera-Polo & Farshid
Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects, Greg Lynn of Greg Lynn FORM, Kevin
Kennon of Kevin Kennon Architects, Jesse
Reiser & Nanako Umemoto of Reiser + Umemoto Architects, and Ben van Berkel
of UNStudio.
Following the screening there
will be a conversation moderated by John Hockenberry with
Director Tom Jennings and
Architect Kevin Kennon.
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8
min / 2015
Directed by Jenna Elizabeth
Designed to Heal
32
min / 2016
Directed by Alan Ricks, Michael Murphy and Thatcher Bean
Two short films about social responsibility design for
under-served communities. The first, 14+ Foundation is a film about a school in Zambia called Chipakata Children's Academy.
This is the first of many schools
14 Plus Foundation plans on building in Africa. The lead architect on
this school is Susan T. Rodriguez, a design partner of Ennead Architects. The second, Designed to Heal, is a MASS Design project
for a cholera treatment
center in
Haiti. The construction of this clinic addresses the underlying structural and social conditions that allow cholera
to thrive. This sneak
preview will have its world premiere at this fall's festival.
Following the screening there
will be a conversation moderated by John Hockenberry with
Architect Susan T. Rodriguez
of Ennad Architects and Alan Ricks, Co-Founder of MASS Design.
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ADFF is proud to announce that Molteni & C will be joining ADFF
as a sponsor for our 8th season and will feature the beautiful
furniture of Gio Ponti in the festival
lounge. To appreciate this great designer, we will also be screening the U.S.
premiere of a new film called Amori Gio Ponti, a love
letter to one of the most important Italian designers of the 20th
century.
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