Dear Kathy, I missed this thread, but here's an excellent addition:
I.M. PEI: Building China Modern [2010] which deals exactly with this issue. http://bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/imp.html Happy New Year to all Videolibbers. May your tribe increase! John __________________ John Hoskyns-Abrahall Bullfrog Films PO Box 149 Oley, PA 19547 Toll-Free: 800/543-3764 Email: j...@bullfrogfilms.com<mailto:j...@bullfrogfilms.com> http://www.bullfrogfilms.com<http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/> Voice: 610/779-8226 Fax: 610/370-1978 Like us? facebook.com/bullfrogfilms <http://www.facebook.com/bullfrogfilms> From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Kathy Edwards Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 3:56 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] Summation of film suggestions for a series on "building in the real world" VIDEOLIBers: I promised to summarize to the list if things got interesting. Thanks to many contributors--I hope I got everyone's suggestions. [Tried to use year of the original work, vs. DVD release date - went with WorldCat in a couple of instances-please don't beat me up over dates, they aren't the point. The asterisks are for me-ignore.] Parkour suggestions are at the end of the list: Original query: looking for more films to complete a short series on architectural practice in the real world, and the compromise and negotiation that play a huge role in determining what finally gets built, whether the conflict is between architect and client or architect/client and community (or other combatants to be named later) or between competing designs for one project. Also interested in perspective of the community backlash after something gets built. What film(s) would you suggest to add greater dimension to the pairing of "The Socialist, the Architect, and the Twisted Tower" and "Design Wars!" (1989 - about the design competition for a new Chicago Public Library)? Responses: *Garbage Warrior (2007): Eco architect Michael Reynolds' fight to build off-the-grid self-sufficient communities. Trailer: http://www.garbagewarrior.com/photo-gallery/trailer Full documentary, online: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/garbage-warrior/ *The Greening of Southie (2007), conflict between architect and construction crews, architect and community over the Macallen Building in Boston, first LEED-certified residential 'green' building. http://www.greeningofsouthie.com/ Super Bridge (1997) - broadcast in the NOVA series, documents the building of the Clark Bridge over the Mississippi River *Rem Koolhass: a kind of architect (2008) http://www.newvideo.com/arthouse-films/rem-koolhaas-a-kind-of-architect/ Trailer: http://youtu.be/nI3SwzI1r-A *Tokyo's Sky City (2003, from Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering series) http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/engineering.html Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-bBuBT1oYU There's also a Wikipedia page for the series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Engineering [Perhaps others from this series as well-] Architects at Work series. (2006) ?? Louis Sullivan: The struggle for American architecture (2010) http://louissullivanfilm.com/film/ "Sullivan's quixotic belief in the unbreakable connection between social values and architecture is closely examined, as are the cultural forces at work at the end of the nineteenth century that made it impossible for Sullivan's aesthetic to take root in the American consciousness. The film presents him as an artist who never felt completely comfortable in either the vanishing world of nineteenth-century romanticism or the unsentimental and mechanized one of the twentieth century." Trailer: http://louissullivanfilm.com/clips/ Unfinished Spaces (2011) "Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece." http://www.unfinishedspaces.com/about.html Trailer: http://www.unfinishedspaces.com/trailer.html *Defying Gravity (2006) - Actually 3 documentaries, on the design, construction, and installation of the Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Denver Museum of Art. http://www.microcinemadvd.com/product/DVD/620/Defying_Gravity.html Selection of Architect - the process; Spatial Dance - design phase; Defying Gravity - construction and museum installation phase Description of the films by librarian Louise Greene: http://emro.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/emroDetail.asp?Number=3013 *Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2004) http://cinemaguild.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TCGS&Product_Code=2111 Metropolis: Creator or Destroyer? Series, 8 30-minute films (1964) - mostly NYC, but also Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, a neighborhood in southern California, and a Chicago suburb. http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/search?t=title&search_category=title&q=Metropolis%3A+creator+or+destroyer&commit=Search&searchOpt=catalogue *Building the American Dream: Levittown, NY (1994) http://cinemaguild.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TCGS&Product_Code=1323 *Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) 1994 Academy Award for Best Documentary NYTimes Review: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=990CE3DC113BF93AA15753C1A963958260 Battle for Brooklyn (2011): http://battleforbrooklyn.com/ Trailer: http://battleforbrooklyn.com/post/5284348317/trailer "BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for a professional basketball arena and the densest real estate development in U.S. history." My Brooklyn, a film (2012) - suggested by the filmmaker Gentrification, race, and class-not a simple story. Tag line: "The battle for the soul of a city" About the film: http://www.mybrooklynmovie.com/?page_id=4 Trailer: http://www.mybrooklynmovie.com/?page_id=12 *Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center (1997) http://www.mayslesfilms.com/films/films/getty.html Effectively conveys the tension and drama of creation, from the first meeting with neighborhood residents to heated debates between the architect and Getty executives, the architect and the interior designer, the architect and the landscape designer... NYTimes Review: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06EEDE143CF935A1575BC0A96E958260 *A Constructive Madness: Frank Gehry's House for Peter Lewis (2003) "...wherein Frank Gehry & Peter Lewis spend a fortune and a decade, end up with nothing, and change the world." http://www.aconstructivemadness.com/ Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMrptF9HoAk Santiago Calatrava's Sundial Bridge: Angle of Inspiration (2007) - suggested by the filmmaker http://www.chiptaylor.com/ttlmnp4792-.cfm *The Pruit- Igoe Myth (2011) http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/ [No explanation required, I think.] Third Ward, TX (2007)- suggested by the filmmaker Project Row Houses brings artists and revitalization into a historically black community in Houston, Texas. Also addresses the problem of how to protect and maintain community ties threatened by real estate speculation. http://thirdwardtx.com/ -- also available for streaming. More information, and (not quite a) trailer: http://newday.iriseducation.org/Third-Ward-TX.html The Grove: AIDs and the Politics of Remembrance (2011)- suggested by the filmmaker. Broadcast on PBS, starting December 2011. http://www.openeyepictures.com/thegrove/ Looks at controversies around the development of the National AIDS Memorial Sanctuary in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. *My Father the Genius (2002) - A daughter's biographical look at her brilliant, obsessed, and estranged architect father. "Dreams for a better world in the face of reality." "...explores the precarious framework on which a career and family are built." Trailer online at http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/My-Father%2C-the-Genius-%282002%29/1/424/ http://www.smallangstfilms.com/index.html *At Home in Utopia (2008) - suggested by the filmmaker http://newday.iriseducation.org/At-Home-In-Utopia.html Life and history in the Coops, a coop community built by immigrant Jewish garment workers in New York City in the 1920s. Also available for streaming. My Architect: A Son's Journey (2005) - On growing up as the son of Louis Kahn http://www.myarchitectfilm.com/ FOR PARKOUR: Top Gear #45 (Series 8, episode 7): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1hbMq0qf4 A 'race' between a Peugeot 207 and two parkour athletes, through Liverpool. The action starts right at 1:54 - usual Top Gear cinematography Casino Royale (2006) opening sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJubOZLpp4A (More death & mayhem than I had in mind, and not particularly urban, but a good choice for the skills required) - 3 people suggested this one Web Urbanist: [these two film clip compilations are uneven, but contain fine examples] 10 Excellent Examples of Parkour in Film and Television: Urban Acrobatics and Mainstream Media: http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/30/10-examples-of-parkour-in-film-and-television/ 10 Impressive Parkour and Free Running Videos: Urban Buildering and Building Jumping in Action: http://weburbanist.com/2008/04/16/10-impressive-parkour-and-free-running-videos-amazing-building-jumping-and-urban-acrobatics/ Filmmaker Andrew Wonder's Undercity: Las Vegas 3-part series, which isn't parkour but is certainly a different way of navigating and experiencing an American city... http://andrewwonder.com/blog/entry/undercity-parts-2-3-online ------------------------------------- Thanks to Jacqueline Tygart, Nell Chenault, Sharadha Natraj, Sarah Dickinson, Susan Craig, Jessica Rosner, Elizabeth McMahon, Rebecca Cooper, Jenny Grasto, Karen Kinney, Janice Woo, Chip Taylor, Andrew Garrison, Randal Baier, Andy Abrahams Wilson, Liane Brandon, Vanessa Warheit, and several filmmakers. If I left anyone out, I beg your pardon. Kathy Kathy Edwards Reference & Collection Development Librarian Emery A. Gunnin Architecture Library 112 Lee Hall, Clemson University Clemson SC 29634 kat...@clemson.edu<mailto:kat...@clemson.edu> (864) 656-4289 [cid:image001.png@01CDE500.69F4BD20]
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