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Villa Empain
BEL-FRA, 2019, 24 min.,
DIRECTOR: KATHARINA KASTNER,
NO DIALOGUE
An organic vision of the unique house of baron Empain in an art deco style located in the residential part of Brussels. Completed in 1934, the villa had served as a museum, embassy, but also as a squat until its recent reconstruction. Now an exhibition space for contemporary art it is captured in an engaging form creating subtle connections, emphasising colour associations and fusion of time and impressions.
Unexpected Modernism: The Architecture of the Wiener Brothers
USA, 2020, 42 min.,
DIRECTOR: GREGORY KALLENBERG,
ENGLISH VERSION / ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Buildings by Samuel G. and William B. Wiener made the city of Shreveport in the 1930s an early centre of modern American architecture. After visiting Bauhaus, the most prestigious European school of design, both brothers became the most innovative and productive architects in the south of the US. Residential, commercial as well as public buildings designed in between the 1930s until 1960s managed to keep up with the progressive European architecture and at the same time adjust to the local environment. The story explores these forgotten pioneers of American modernism.
Villa Empain
BEL-FRA, 2019, 24 min.,
DIRECTOR: KATHARINA KASTNER,
NO DIALOGUE
An organic vision of the unique house of baron Empain in an art deco style located in the residential part of Brussels. Completed in 1934, the villa had served as a museum, embassy, but also as a squat until its recent reconstruction. Now an exhibition space for contemporary art it is captured in an engaging form creating subtle connections, emphasising colour associations and fusion of time and impressions.
Unexpected Modernism: The Architecture of the Wiener Brothers
USA, 2020, 42 min.,
DIRECTOR: GREGORY KALLENBERG,
ENGLISH VERSION / ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Buildings by Samuel G. and William B. Wiener made the city of Shreveport in the 1930s an early centre of modern American architecture. After visiting Bauhaus, the most prestigious European school of design, both brothers became the most innovative and productive architects in the south of the US. Residential, commercial as well as public buildings designed in between the 1930s until 1960s managed to keep up with the progressive European architecture and at the same time adjust to the local environment. The story explores these forgotten pioneers of American modernism.