Online live screening of "GOFF," a documentary about Bruce Goff

GOFF
2019 / 96 min / USA
Director: Britini Harris Bruce 

Goff was one of the greatest American architects of the 20th century. His unconventional perspective challenged stigmas about the Midwest’s inability to produce innovative work. A peer to Frank Lloyd Wright, his work had a profound influence on the next generation of architects, including Phillip Johnson and Frank Gehry. However, Goff’s willingness to explore original forms often solicited polarized perspectives of his work. As a result of establishing his practice in an otherwise conservative landscape and his unabashed desire to experiment with the possibilities of form, much of his work has been left to decay or forgotten altogether. GOFF explores the life of an iconoclast and chronicles the events that led to the destruction and renewed interest of his memory and dwellings. 

Special introduction by Alison Fisher, associate curator of architecture and design, The Art Institute of Chicago 

After the film, a Q&A with the film’s director, Britini Harris