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Interview: Filmmaker Eric Bricker
A documentary screening at Dwell on Design zooms in for a close-up on 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman and his iconic images that came to define modernism and Los Angeles with...
written by: Alissa Walker05.27.09 -
Modern Times (1936)
One of Charlie Chaplin’s classic films pits humans against a modern, industrialized, impersonal city. The main character breaks down while working on an assembly line, but fights to maintain...
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Screening: Objectified
Presenting the regional premiere of Objectified, the new feature-length independent documentary about industrial design from the director of Helvetica. Exploring the creative processes of some of...
03.01.09 -
Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes
Take in the world premiere of a new documentary short about Dutch designer Hella Jongerius. Curators R. Craig Miller (IMA), Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art), and manufacturers of her designs ...
03.25.09 -
World Premiere of Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes
Denver-based filmmaker Amie Knox of A bar K Productions shot the documentary on location in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Makkum, Indianapolis and New York. The half-hour film explores Jongerius’...
04.24.09 -
The Cinema Cabaret: Live Film Narration
The art of live film narration reached its peak with the benshi, a performer who voiced silent films from the stage. Reviving this tradition with a contemporary twist, the "neo-benshi"...
04.27.09 -
Objectified
Stop by and check out a screening of Objectified, director Gary Hustwit's new film about everyday objects and the industrial designers who create them. The screening will be followed by a Q&A...
04.29.09 -
Dwell on Design Architectural Movie Night and Mobile Restaurant Row
On Saturday night, leave the super-villains and animated penguins at home and join us for an architectural night at the movies. With popcorn in hand, we'll be filling the seats for the Los Angeles...
05.27.09 -
Food, Inc.
Check out the New York premiere of this documentary about the preparation and selling of food in today's world. The film includes interviews with Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael...
05.29.09 -
Modernist Set Design in Mid-Centery Cinema
This three-part series, inspired by the museum's exhibition Masters of Mid-Century Modernism—Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman, will present three films that encapsulate the era of 1950s and '60s...
06.30.09 -
CRUDE: Director Commentary
An inside look at the infamous $27 billion "Amazon Chernobyl" case, CRUDE is a real-life, high stakes legal documentary involving global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity...
09.08.09 -
Free Admission: Burning in the Sun
Presented outdoors at a solar energy center, this documentary follows a young man’s quest to start a local business building solar panels in his homeland of Mali—the first of its kind...
09.19.09 -
Nuts and Bolts: Machine Made Man in Films from the Collection
Nuts and Bolts: Machine Made Man in Films from the Collection was created especially for Performa 09's celebration of the centenary of Futurism, after Performa Director RoseLee Goldberg approached...
10.02.09 -
The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
The Wild and Scenic Film Festival is the largest environmental film festival in the United States. The festival showcases environmental and adventure films that illustrate the Earth's beauty, the...
10.15.09 -
2009 "Story About a Place" Competition
This is a showcase of entrants to a film competition that called for moving image stories (under 6 minutes) that explore the social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues...
10.22.09 -
William Krisel, Architect at The Getty Center
Please join us for a special screening of Design Onscreen’s latest documentary film, William Krisel, Architect at The Getty Center, Los Angeles, on Tuesday, Apr. 13, 2010 at 7:00PM. A...
03.09.10 -
American Masters: Building China Modern
I.M. Pei, one of the most influential architects of the last half-century, returned to his Chinese homeland after seventy years, and designed a modern museum to house the antiquities of Suzhou, in...
03.09.10 -
Visual Acoustics
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the...
05.12.10 -
Koolhaas HouseLife
Koolhaas HouseLife examines the daily life of one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture of recent years: The House in Bordeaux, designed in 1998 by Rem Koolhaas / OMA. Unlike most...
08.02.10 -
The Lives of Energy
Making its U.S. premiere, The Lives of Energy is a new feature-length montage film by Rick Prelinger, archivist, writer, and founder of the world famous Prelinger Archives. The film is compiled...
08.06.10 -
"Beadle Architecture" Documentary
Design Within Reach, Scottsdale AZ will host a documentary screening about Case Study House program architect Alfred Newman Beadle. Alfred Newman Beadle #28 in Arizona (later called Case Study...
10.12.10 -
Tim Hetherington at Aperture
In remembrance of Tim Hetherington, photographer, reporter, and filmmaker, Aperture is presenting his Sleeping Soldiers video installation and his Diary video, from Wednesday, May 25 through...
05.25.11 -
The Love We Make
"The Love We Make," a documentary about September 11th, premieres on Showtime on September 10th 2011. For the 10 year anniversary, Paul McCartney highlights his life experiences of that...
07.26.11 -
Resource Furniture + Dwell Reception and Private Screening
Join Resource Furniture and Dwell at the Architecture and Design Film Festival for a private screening of Lioness Among Lions....
10.02.11 -
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Narrarated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film to be created about Charles and Ray Eames since their deaths. The film, which is presented by Jason Cohn and...
11.18.11
