FILM / VIDEO
Thursday,
June 5th
11:30 a.m.
MANUFACTURED
LANDSCAPES
2006 / Canada / 90 minutes
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal with cinematogaphy by Peter Mettler
Striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward
Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured
landscape”- quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams – Burtynsky
creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and
debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and
effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution.
Winner - Best Canadian Documentary, Calgary Film Festival 2006
Winner – Best Feature Documentary and Best Canadian Film,
Toronto Film Critics Association 2006
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival.
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PREVIOUS FILMS
ELEVATED PERSPECTIVES
Thursday, 1 May
TAKEN
FOR A RIDE
Tuesday,
15 April
HELVETICA
Thursday, 1 February 2008
NEW
URBAN COWBOY: THE LABORS OF MICHAEL E. ARTH
Thursday,
3 January 2008
ABERRANT
ARCHITECTURE?: DILLER + SCOFIDIO AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM
Michael Blackwood Productions / 58 minutes
Thursday, 3 January 2008
RICHARD
MEIER IN ROME: BUILDING A CHURCH IN A CITY OF CHURCHES
Michael
Blackwood Productions
2005- 58 minutes
Thursday, Dec 6
ECOLOGICAL DESIGN:
INVENTING THE FUTURE
Produced
by Brian Danitz and Chris Zelov
1994 - 64 minutes
CITY
OF DREAMS
A Film by Ruby Ofori & Edward Scott
Tuesday,
July17, 11:45 a.m.
BUIDING
THE AMERICAN DREAM: LEVITTOWN, NY
Directed by Stuart Bird/ 1994 / 60 minutes
Thursday
June 14, 2007
THE
SOCIALIST, THE ARCHITECT AND THE TWISTED TOWER
Directed
by Frerik Gertten
2005 (59 minutes)
Tuesday,
March 20, 2007
A
TALE OF TWO CITIES: NEW YORK AND BERLIN WITH PAUL GOLDBERGER AND
HANS STIMMANN
Documentary Video / 90 minutes
Want to know how to create real cities in the modern world?
Tuesday February 20, 2007
RIVERS
AND TIDES: ANDY GOLDSWORTHY WORKING WITH TIME
Germany
2004 / Color / in English / 90 minutes
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Music: Fred Firth
Principal Cast: Andy Goldsworthy
Thursday,
January 18, 2007
CONTESTED
STREETS: BREAKING NEW YORK CITY GRIDLOCK
Documentary
/ 2006 / 57 minutes
Directed by Stefan Schaefer
KILOWATT
OURS
Jeff Barrie 2004 / 55 minutes
Did you know that by recycling a single aluminum can we conserve enough energy
t power a regular TV for a whole hour? Did you know that if every home in America
used just one energy efficient light bulb that we would instantly cut greenhouse
gas emissions by 1 trillion pounds per year?
Community
Builder: The Life and Legacy J.C. Nichols
A production of
A P L / Anderson Productions Ltd.
Steven C. F. Anderson, Executive Producer
Kansas City’s most famous land developer, Jesse Clyde Nichols, built a
grand local community… and changed America forever.
Koyaanisqatsi
(1983 / 87
minutes)
Produced and Directed by Godfrey Reggio
Filmed by Ron Fricke and edited by Alton Walpole & Ron Fricke
Music by Philip Glass with Music director & additional music by Michael Hoenig
Bernd
and Hilla Becher: Four Decades
58 minutes
/ color
Michael Blackwood Productions
Thursday,
July 20, 5:30 p.m.
London
Tuesday,
June 20
A film
written, directed, and photographed by Patrick Keiller released in 1994
Color / 82 minutes / in English
Architect-turned-director Patrick Keiller returns with an eccentric documentary
that brings out a side of this city that few tourists will ever visit.
Also returning is Academy-Award-winning actor Paul Scofield as
the mysterious narrator, who is back in London after a seven-year
absence to tour the city
with his former lover Robinson. The pair visit historical sites associated
with such famous authors as Poe and Baudelaire, only to discover pollution,
urban blight, and IRA bomb scares have changed the flavor of their beloved
London forever.
Wry, deadpan humor, ironic commentary on social politics, and
immaculately composed images make this ideological guided tour
of England’s capital
city as indispensable companion to the unforgettable Robinson in Space.
Three Short Films by Edmund Bacon
Rome: Impact
of an Idea
John Nash and London
Paris: Living Space
“On 14 October (2005), America lost one of its most significant, colorful,
and controversial 20th century figures: Ed Bacon. From 1949 to 1970, as Executive
Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon dramatically transformed
the shape of his hometown, becoming one of the most influential big city administrators
of the Post-World War II era. Famous for his visionary ideas and combative demeanor,
Bacon’s face graced the cover of Time magazine in 1964, and he became a
household name in Philadelphia and a recognized national figure.”
-Gregory Heller, President, The Ed Bacon Foundation
Edmund Bacon was perhaps most influential for his oft reprinted book Design
of Cities, which envisions the formation cities as “acts of will” to
create memorable urban spaces. Three short films were produced by Bacon
to illustrate his ideas on the form of cities, and they will be shown as
a medley, followed by discussion.
A
Day with Zaha Hadid
52 minutes
/ color
Zaha Hadid discusses her current work while taking the camera through her retrospective exhibition “Zaha Hadid has Arrived” at Vienna’s MAK, a museum for design and contemporary art. The centerpiece is a sculptural work entitled “Ice Storm” especially created for the exhibition.
“Zaha Hadid has Arrived” is a brilliant review of her progress through
the last decade and includes her museums of contemporary art in Rome and Cincinnati,
the BMW plant in Leipzig, the Bergisel ski jump in Innsbruck and the Science
Center in Wolfsburg, among others.
Social
Life of Small Urban Spaces
A film by William
H. Whyte
Produced by The Municipal Art Society of New York
Silver Apple 1989 National Film & Video Festival
(58 minutes / 1988)
This witty and original film is about the open spaces of cities and why some
of them work for people while others don't. Beginning at New York's Seagram
Plaza, one of the most used open areas in the city, the film proceeds to analyze
why this space is so popular and how other urban oases, both in New York and
elsewhere, measure up. Based on direct observation of what people actually
do, the film presents a remarkably engaging and informative tour of the urban
landscape and looks at how it can be made more hospitable to those who live
in it.
This classic film study, analyzing urban space through aerial surveillance
and time lapsed photography, will be introduced by Design Director TK Davis.
Randy Morgan of the Metro Panning Department will lead a discussion afterwards,
including his ideas on forming a working group to pursue a similar film study
of public outdoor spaces in downtown Nashville.
" A complete delight...flows with humor, verve, insight and pleasure...An
excellent analysis of major factors of urban design."
--AFVA Evaluations
Tadao Ando
Produced by Michael
Blackwood and narrated by the architect.
Tadao Ando is arguably
the world’s foremost architect working in concrete.
Japan's introspective architect proposes an international architecture that
he believes can only be conceived by someone Japanese. His architecture mixes
Piranesian drama with contemplative spaces in urban complexes, residences and
chapels. This film presents the formative years of his impressive career before
he embarked on projects in Europe and the United States.
Architect-turned-filmmaker Patrick Keller expands and inventively redefines the documentary format in this unique "travelogue" of England. Using immaculately composed shots, he presents the country's familiar historic landmarks and grand estates, but also the suburban malls, industrial parks, landfills, factories, and phone booths choking the landscape. Centuries old structures share the screen with industrial parts, hotels, malls and shipyards. Signs of decay and decline exist next to sites of busy industrial activity.
"The
ingenious juxtapositions and Keiller's oblique, teasing humor hold
us entranced."
- Film Comment
THE END OF SUBURBIA: OIL DEPLETION AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
“ We’re
literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up.”
– James Howard Kunstler
HANS HOLLEIN: EVERYTHING IS ARCHITECTURE
BLADE RUNNER and the short subject "Give yourself the red light"