"Harry Seidler: Modernist" Film Screening

MAS Context is pleased to present the screening of the film Harry Seidler: Modernist by award-winning film director Daryl Dellora as part of MAS Context’s 2018 Fall Talks series. The film will be introduced by Vladimir Belogolovsky, founder of the New York-based Intercontinental Curatorial Project and curator of the traveling exhibition “Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture.” The event will take place at the offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Chicago. 

The first documentary retrospective of Harry Seidler’s architectural legacy, Harry Seidler: Modernist reveals an intimate portrait of his extraordinary life and internationally recognised work. Seidler is acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist architects. He won every architectural major prize in Australia, is represented in every major city, and was embraced internationally by the likes of Norman Foster (the London Gherkin) and Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers (Pompidou Centre, Paris). During a career that spanned almost sixty years he worked in New York, Paris, China, and Mexico, reshaped Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Vienna and prompted architects and artists from all over the world to look to his work as an inspiration.

The 58-minute film includes interviews with Dr. Johannes Swoboda, Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, Dr. Elizabeth Farrelly, Penelope Seidler, Peter Hirst, Glenn Murcutt, Helen O’Neill, Vladimir Belogolovsky, Edmund Capon, Eric Sierins, Colin Griffiths, Prof. Philip Goad, Greg Holman, and Bronwyn Berman. For more information about the film, please visit www.filmartmedia.com/projects/harry-seidler-modernist.

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