the 10th season of the architecture & design film festival – the nation’s largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit that drives architecture and design – will kick off in new york city from 16 > 21 october at cinépolis chelsea. with dozens of humanistic documentaries about creative visionaries, including design legend dieter rams and the engineer of the twin towers, leslie e. robertson, stimulating talks with filmmakers and architects, a pop-up bookstore, and interactive installations in the festival lounge, adff:ny is the perfect fall activity for design-loving new yorkers.
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ticket price:
opening night: $75
general admission: $17
members of aia, asid, and iida: $14
students: $12.50
the architecture & design film festival (adff) – the nation’s largest film festival devoted to the creative spirit that drives architecture and design – will take place in new york city from november 1-5 at cinépolis chelsea. through a curated selection of films, director q&as and panel discussions, adff creates an opportunity to educate, entertain and engage all who are excited about architecture and design. the ninth edition will showcase 30+ feature-length and short films offering explorative portraits of architecture icons such as mies van der rohe, glenn murcutt and rem koolhaas, and delving into topics ranging from imaginative solutions for homeless housing and how drones will impact architecture.
the adff short films walk (sfw) on 11 october connects 10 soho design showrooms and the architecture & design film festival for one fabulous night! adff will curate a selection of short films about architecture and design to be screened at each showroom. each of the participating showrooms on the “walk” will show a 15-minute loop of short films that will be screened throughout the evening from 5pm to 9pm.
adff will also give 300 sfw participants a complimentary ticket to this year’s architecture & design film festival, which takes places november 1 – 5 at the cinepolis chelsea cinema on 260 west 23rd street. the tickets will be awarded to people who have visited the most showrooms.
two significant design documentaries were just released:
• graphic means: a history of graphic design production
• pressing on: the letterpress film
screening them on the same evening, as a double feature, makes this event a must-see!
6:00pm / doors open – hang out in the lounge and patio
7:00pm / graphic means screening
8:30pm / pressing on screening
party with us until 11:00pm
tickets $20 / sta members $15
tickets at the door $25
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graphic means: a history of graphic design production
briar levit, director/producer (run time 80 minutes)
levit and her team spent years traveling around the us and uk, interviewing designers ellen lupton, art chantry, adrian shaugnessy, tobias frere-jones, paul brainerd, steven heller, carolina de bartolo, dan rhatigan, and many more. digging into archives, university libraries, and even thrift shops to uncover forgotten tools and materials, graphic means gives viewers a look at the history of the ever-evolving design industry, and what’s in store for the future.
though design is more popular than ever, with countless books and magazines dedicated to its new trends and thousands of students hoping to enter the field each year, its history has been largely ignored until now. graphic means: a history of graphic design production is a must-see film for anyone who loves design, art, history, or the intersection of all three.
pressing on: the letterpress film
a bayonet media film (run time 105 minutes)
the modern world was born on a printing press. once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. from self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed hatch show print, pressing on: the letterpress film explores the question: why has letterpress survived? worlds of each character emerge as unusual narratives—joyful, mournful, reflective and visionary—are punctuated with on-screen visual poetry, every shot meticulously composed. captivating personalities blend with wood, metal and type as young printers strive to save this historic process in a film created for the designer, type nerd, historian and collector in us all.
pressing on has been reviewed as beautifully capturing the art and technology of letterpress printing and preserving important voices in this craft for generations to come. this preservation is enhanced by the exquisite camerawork, lighting and music. notable figures have lauded the film in the letterpress and design fields, such as steven heller, former art director at the new york times, who stated, “pressing on is an essential document not just about a revolutionary means of human interaction, but to savor the passion of its practitioners.”
the architecture & design film festival and vitra invite you to a film screening.
8 pm monday june 12
stagg court – chicago athletic association – 4th floor
12 s. michigan ave. chicago
join us for a screening of “workplace“, directed by gary hustwit (“helvetica”, “objectified”, “urbanized”), at the chicago athletic association. the screening will be followed by a q&a session with kyle bergman (founder adff), jeff brecker (vp r/ga), primo orpilla (principal & cofounder studio o+a) and amanda carroll (global technology gensler ny), and a book signing with primo orpilla and verda alexander for studio o+a’s new book 12 true tales of workplace design. only limited seating available, rsvp required.
http://adfilmfest.com/
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DesignApplause will be interviewing Jason Cohn, producer/writer of the feature documentary Eames: The architect and the painter. The interview is suggested and made possible by the Architecture & Design Film Festival. A&DFF is in Chicago 12 > 16 April. There are 31 films to choose from, Jason’s will be one of them. A&DFF Chicago > [ details ] [ trailer ]
