Film screening: “Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter“ + “Harry Bertoia’s Sculpture”

Harry Bertoia’s Sculpture
Clifford West, 1965, USA
25 mins, Digital Projection

With a mesmerizing soundtrack by Harry Bertoia, Clifford West’s film creates a setting of motion and progression rare among other educational films of the 1960s and 1970s. An abstract study, it mirrors the abstraction of Bertoia’s sculptures themselves. An opening shot of a lunar landscape reveals itself to be one of Bertoia’s sculptures, setting the stage for something grand in scope, yet miniature in size

Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey, 2011, USA
85 mins, Digital Projection

Narrated by James Franco, this vibrant documentary traces the careers of Ray Eames and her husband, Charles, highlighting the duo’s eccentric output. Primarily known as furniture makers, the Eameses also worked in film, photography, architectural design and multimedia experimentation. This documentary highlights their immeasurable contributions to American arts, culture and technology. They paved the road to public acceptance of modernism, rethought the ways in which we interact with our surroundings—and in some ways created an aesthetic template for the digital era.

This film event is part of MAD's Midcentury Masters series: This film series looks at the life and work of an influential group of postwar architects and designers whose achievements continue to inspire the way we think and move through space today.

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