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Film & Design: Not the Usual Suspects Film Series

Weekly starting Wednesday, May 7, 7:00 pm

Location to be determined

In partnership with the DAM's Design Council support group, the Denver Film Society presents this four-part series exploring the complex intersection of design, architecture, and cinema through the following themes:

Form & Space on Film

Vertigo (1958)

Wednesday, May 7, 7 pm

Hitchcock may be considered the great master of suspense, but he began his career as a graphic designer, and one can see in his work a masterful understanding of visual design and use of architectural forms and spaces.

Urban/Avant Garde

The Man With a Movie Camera (1928)

Wednesday, May 14, 7 pm

This triumph of visual design will be preceded by abstract, Dadaist, and Futurist short films from the 1920s: Rhythmus 21 (1921), Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928), Ballet Mecanique (1924), and Symphonie Diagonale (1924).

Double Feature

Kochuu (2006) & Louis I Kahn: An Offering to Architecture (1992)

Wednesday, May 21, 7 pm

Kochuu is about contemporary Japanese architecture, its roots in Japanese tradition and its impact on Nordic architecture. The film is beautifully photographed using traditional as well as contemporary structures to describe the roots of contemporary Japanese design in the traditional way of building.

An Offering to Architecture was produced in the early 1990s for the LA Museum of Contemporary Art’s
show Louis I Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture. Kahn, arguably the best American architect of the 20th
century, is seen here in archival footage complemented with interviews of those who worked with him. 

1930s Politics & Design

Clips from I'm Young & Healthy (1958), Lullaby of Broadway (1933), Never Gonna Dance (1936) & Triumph of the Will (1935)

Wednesday, May 28, 7 pm

The style known only since the 1960s as “art deco,” has become something of a cliché now, but in the 1920s and ‘30s “moderne” stood for all things chic, sophisticated, and hip—and not of earlier times.

This series is curated by Howie Movshovitz, education director at the Starz FilmCenter, who will introduce each film and moderate a conversation with the audience and a panel of experts.

Location
Starz FilmCenter, 9th Avenue and Auraria Parkway

Tickets
Film tickets are $9.50 per person, available at the door or at www.denverfilm.org.