ArchFilmFest
Day One / topic: the language of emotions
film display: Deconstructivist Architects / 56 min / USA (2001)
Time: 16:00
Venue: Łódź Art Center
The film, made by a well-known New York company Michael Blackwood, shows the birth of the deconstructivist architecture movement. It presents the movement’s reference to history-related postmodernism and constructivism entangled in politics. It discusses the relation of the movement to Jacques Derrida’s philosophy. It also shows different tendencies in the deconstructivist architecture, from Peter Eisenmann to Frank Gehry. The film also presents the incredible phenomenon of a group of architects who managed to develop a coherent programme and then put it into effect, changing the success of an idea into a market product.
The film stars: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelblau, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Michael Sorkin, Bernard Tschumi, Hajime Yatsuka, Jacques Derrida.
Meeting with DANIEL LIBESKIND
time: 17:00
venue: Łódź Art Center
film show: Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum, Berlin / 56 min / USA (2002)
time: 17:30
venue: Łódź Art Center
One of the leading architects of deconstruction shows us round the facility, whose construction took him more than 10 years. His interlocutor is a New-York architecture critic – Alan Riding. During the walk in the museum, the architect discusses a whole range of architecture and philosophy ideas which led him to construct one of the most extraordinary masterpieces of modern architecture and tourist sites, which every years attracts millions of tourists to Berlin. The film shows how the concepts presented at the MoMa exhibition in 1988, New York, were reflected in the facility.