Shelter highlights for the month of June include Brasilia: Life after Design, I Wanted to Be Walt Disney and Follies.
BRASILIA: LIFE AFTER DESIGN
Located 2000 kilometers from the Amazon and 18 hours from Rio, the city of Brasília – the capital of Brazil – is a mythical place: a concrete utopia born out of the desert. In 1956 at the rebirth of Brazilian democracy, visionary architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa invented an urban plan and structures that would attempt to micromanage the daily activity of human life. The unabashed goal was to create the space that would birth “the new Brazilian citizen”.
Now the stark beauty of the city acts as a backdrop to isolation, changing values, and the dynamic power and politics of today’s Brazil.The remnants of Niemeyer and Costa’s dream echo through the lives of planners, students, street vendors and artists, each trying to make their mark in the city of today.
Featuring a haunting, intimate score and images that take us deep into the city, Brasilia: Life After Design brings a human face to a utopian ideal – what is it like to live in someone else’s idea?
Brasilia – Life After Design (87 mins) Brazil 2017 (Available 6 June)
I WANTED TO BE WALT DISNEY
Creator of a parallel universe, ironic and tragic, intimate and able to speak to the world, in any language – architecture, art, design, writing, and critique.
Alessandro Mendini tells the story of a dream which becomes true, like Walt Disney.
“My way of acting and designing is an autobiographic need”,
– he says.
“I have the feeling of belonging to the past. I use antique methods, far away from today’s logic, such as the pencil. Although I have always criticized it, even my search for beauty is old fashioned.”
A research accompanied by many encounters – Alberto Alessi, Emilio Ambasz, François Burkhardt, Piero Bisazza, Germano Celant, Anna Gili, Joseph Grima, Giovanna Mazzocchi, to name a few- by the obsessions, the utopias, such as designing the perfect object.
I Wanted to be Walt Disney (32 mins) Italy 2016 (Available 13 June)
SHELTER ORIGINALS: FOLLIES – WORLD PREMIERE
A Shelter Originals World Premiere, join architectural historian and author of “Follies: An Architectural History”, Rory Fraser, who takes us on a journey to four of England’s best follies to discover what makes them some of the country’s most interesting architecture. From Gunpowder Plotters to nuclear bunkers and Lord of the Rings, Follies not only provides a unique insight into the imagination and innovation of some of the nation’s best architects, but also the stories of the eccentric patrons that hired them and the place that they hold in the Great British story.
Ep 1: Rushton Triangular Lodge (20 mins) United Kingdom 2022 (Available 20 June)
One of Britain’s most bizarre buildings, Rushton Triangular Lodge is the story of a man’s faith translated into brick and stone. While imprisoned by Elizabeth Tudor’s Protestant Government, the staunchly Catholic aristocrat Sir Thomas Tresham dreamt up a banqueting house covered in cryptic codes and symbols. On his release, Rushton Triangular Lodge was born. In this episode, Rory transports us to a world that is laced with intrigue, plots and clues – some of which are still to be cracked.
Ep 2: The Temple of the Four Winds (15 mins) United Kingdom 2022 (Available 27 June)
One of Britain’s greatest contributions to the visual arts is the English Landscape Garden, a form of garden design that was refined at the magnificent stately home, Castle Howard, in North Yorkshire. Pinning these new landscapes together were follies. Built in the early 18th Century, The Temple of the Four Winds is an ornate classical temple that represented the revolutionary intersection of art, poetry and politics. In this episode, Rory explores the society in which the Temple was built and imagines the secret club it might once have entertained.
FOLLIES KEY CAST & CREW:
Andrew Spicer – Director & Producer
Rory Fraser – Writer & Presenter
Dustin Clare – Executive Producer
Camille Clare – Executive Producer
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