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ALL Films in 2022 will be played at the iconic, PLAZA THEATRE, downtown Palm Springs!
Depending on length, films may be paired with other works within a single program.
ADAFF 2022 Film Schedule:
Camping Life, SPAIN, 52min. (Josep Perez)
Follow the various stories and anecdotes of the day to day life of the uninhibited campers with the intention to portray the concept of holidays for contemporary man. The film makes a unique portrait of how the coronavirus crisis was experienced during the summer of 2020 by a middle class determined to be able to enjoy their recreation time no matter what.
Touristic Intents, USA, 75min. (Mat Rappaport)
Grappling with notions of place and identity in an era when the role of national monuments has become a defining issue for the selective maintenance of cultural memory, the resort of Prora stand as a lasting reminder of how buildings become vehicles for political ideology and myth-making throughout their lives. Is there an obligation to remember a building’s dark past? In the case of Prora, connections are drawn to the Nazi, GDR and contemporary political moment while acknowledging the influence of American industrialization and globalism.
Sacred Brick Technology, USA, 13min. (Ian Bertorelli)
Follow The Brick from its beginnings at the dawn of civilization to its role in building Chicago, a staggering metropolis that has been constructed almost entirely out of the very earth on which it stands.
Cloud-Cuckoo Land, Germany, 7min. (Lilian Hess)
With curiosity about how we are shaped by the spaces we grow up in, a young woman questions her parents - two architects - about their creative process in designing their home. What she hoped to find was the story about a gently crafted gender-free environment; but in the process she learns about the chaos of creativity, the impossibility of compromise and the beauty of rediscovery.
Middle Barn: A Work In Progress, UK, 7min. (Andrew Spicer)
For the past twenty years, opera singer and amateur woodworker James Oxley has been building a home in rural Herefordshire. Like his musical performances, James believes buildings should be ephemeral and, once their natural life-cycle is complete, should be returned to the ground or reused. It is no surprise, therefore, that 99% of the materials involved (aside from a few cables and pipes) are local, ethically sourced and painstakingly crafted into the embodiment of musical temporality.
Osvaldo Borsani - Portrait Of A Forward Thinking Mind, ITALY, 7min. (Matteo Fritelli)
On the occasion of the monographic exhibition devoted to Osvaldo Borsani at La Triennale di Milano, curated and designed by Norman Foster and Tommaso Fantoni, Alto Piano was in charge to create a documentary about the great architect and designer.
Crooked Lines Of Beauty - My Grandfather the Architect Carl Nyrén, SWEDEN, 58min. (Sven Blume)
Carl Nyrén is one of Sweden's most acclaimed architects. During the Second World War many Nordic architects came to Stockholm and Carl collaborated closely with architects like Jörn Utzon from Denmark and Arne Kosmo from Norway. Carl was in constant contact and exchange with his Nordic colleagues throughout his professional life and Alvar Aalto was his greatest source of inspiration.
Architecture On The Edge: Nishizawa House, CHILE, 12min. (Mario Novas, Kate Kliwadenko)
Instead of disappearing and becoming compliant with the surrounding territory, the works of Chilean architecture are sharply man-made, rough, cosmic and oceanic. These breathtaking designs are built on salt blankets in the desert, on the edge of oceans, cradled amongst mountains, and grasping to an earthquake prone land.
Spatial Ritual, FRANCE, 4min. (Lucas Bacle)
"Spacial Ritual" sensitively tries to invoke how architects would like to see their own projects experienced by users.
Art Snippets In L.A., USA, 38min. (Rick Meghiddo)
"Art Snippets in L.A." completed in 2021, condenses ten short documentaries on art-related events in Los Angeles during the 2016 and 2020 period. The film includes artworks by Jasper Johns, Anish Kapoor, Shirin Neshat, Black Power Art, and many avant-garde artists in painting, sculpture, installations, photography, film, performance art, and architecture.
Forms, UK, 2min. (Matthew Ingram)
"Forms" explains and documents an ongoing street art project.
The Bright Side, SPAIN, 38min. (Lucas Arellano Ferrero)
These 10 days are the result of months seeking employment, hundreds of job applications, long waits, uncertainty, more than 15 interviews and 2 years of really hard work in the office, giving my best with every task no matter how small. Proving my value consistently, working hard every day until I got into the bid teams where currently, I can work closely with the head design of the office.
Three Patios For The Sun, PORTUGAL, 12min. (Miguel C. Tavares, Tiago Costa)
Filmed during 2020’s Summer Solstice, the film presents itself as a meditation about the building, following the sun and its projections on the exterior walls and on the white interiors. The abstract sculptural spaces of the concrete façades present a very unique sensation of the passage of time, through its shadows, or on the contrary, its absolute absence.
Jade Doskow, Photographer Of Lost Utopias, USA, 30min. (Philip Shane)
Follow large-format photographer Jade Doskow on her 10-year quest to capture the monumental remnants worldwide. Shane follows her devotion to these decaying utopian structures, while she simultaneously struggles to achieve her own dreams of artistry — and motherhood.
Katie Ohe: A Mystical Kind Of Experience, VENEZUELA/CANADA, 17min. (Aquiles Ascencion)
Learn about Katie Ohe's life and work, follow her creative process in her studio, at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre, to the installation and presentation of the largest solo exhibition of her work to date, featuring six decades of Ohe's sculptural kinetic practice, presented at Esker Foundation, from 26 January to 29 August, 2020.
White Light, JAPAN, 7min. (Fusako Yamamoto)
Terraced rice fields are based on an ancient farming method that grows rice by filling fields carved into hillsides with water. This farming method is full of the wisdom of Japanese people who are good at harmonizing with nature, and such terraced fields are also the original scenery of hometown for the Japanese.
Permanent Camping 2, AUSTRALIA, 26min. (John Lounsbury)
10 Years on architect Rob Brown creates a new iteration of the famous Permanent Camping building. Built by the original master builder and joiner Jeffery Broadfield once again. The building uses no fixings or glue in any of the framing and documents the relationship between, architect, builder and client
An Improbable Odyssey: The Life And Times Of Brian Wall, USA, 60min. (Peter Stern)
Follow Brian Wall as a young artist living in St. Ives, Cornwall in the 1950s to Brian’s contribution to the influential English Sculpture of the Sixties movement in London in the early 1960s and then to Northern California where Brian contributed to the historical contemporary art movement of the time.
C-House, USA, 5min. (Marika Snider)
The architect's innovative house takes advantage of the urban environment at three scales by implementing an urban solution to a suburban lot in the city.
Art 21: Anish Kapoor, USA, 12min. (Ian Forster)
A signature artist of his generation, the sculptor Anish Kapoor poetically transforms stainless steel, stone, wax, PVC, and colorful pigment into transcendent and mystifying forms that provoke fundamental questions about perception, consciousness, and spirituality. Capturing the iconic public sculpture Cloud Gate, popularly known as “The Bean,” in Chicago and a major retrospective in Beijing, this film is an intimate portrayal of a world-renowned artist.
D Fin House, USA, 4min. (Myles Neith)
Shot exclusively in natural light over the course of one day, the film highlights architect Craig Steely's work in Captain Cook, Hawaii. The home has since been featured in the May/June issue of Dwell and is up for the 2021 AIA Honolulu People's Choice Award.
What Does It Take To Make A Building, UK, 28min. (Jim Stephenson)
An intimate portrait of Sarah Wigglesworth's life as an architect who uses her work as a vehicle for social change. Through her conversations with fellow architect Piers Taylor, Sarah discusses her architectural education (which was dominated by men and almost led to her quitting the industry before she graduated), through to the experimental home and studio she designed and built with her partner Jeremy Till.
The Gene Leedy Influence, USA, 23min. (Calder Wilson, Peter Hoang, Ralph Mariano, Ryan Lester)
This film highlights the 1956 home of Gene Leedy, an icon of the famed Sarasota School of Architecture. Architect Max Strang, a Florida native who grew up in a Leedy-designed home, explores the legacy of Leedy through a uniquely personal lens.
When We Live Alone, CANADA, 27min. (Daniel Schwartz)
While the causes of living alone seem apparent—shifting social values, the flexibilization of labour, new demographics, increased wealth, and changes to normative gender roles—the effects on society and its spatial configurations remain uncertain.
Loie Hollowell's Transcendent Bodies, USA, 7min. (Anna Barsan)
How do you paint a pregnancy? Celebrated painter Loie Hollowell creates highly abstracted and yet deeply personal representations of the human body, evoking universal experiences of sensuality, desire, pleasure, and pain. In her Queens, New York studio, Hollowell works with a vocabulary of elemental, organic shapes rendered in high-contrast color, eliciting a near spiritual sense of "pure light, pure space, [and] pure emotion."
George Nakashima’s Conoid Studio, USA, 14min. (Bilyana Dimitrova)
Though George Nakashima is best known for his furniture, he first studied architecture and engineering and worked as an architect until his career was cut short during World War II. From architect, to internment camp detainee, to chicken farmer, to world renowned furniture-maker and founding father of the American craft movement, this film gives us a glimpse into Nakashima’s ability to overcome adversity and find beauty and meaning not only for himself but for generations to come.
Architect of Brutal Poetry, SLOVAKIA, 70min. (Ladislav Kabos)
The old man fails to recognize his own face in the mirror. He is suffering from Alzheimer's
disease. Little by little, his memories get washed away. One day he decides to tell the
story of his life to his reflection in the mirror. The man is Hans Broos - Brazilian architect, Carpathian German by origin, born in Slovakia.
