The directors of the US-based Architecture and Design Film Festival have launched a four-day virtual festival that will feature a documentary about Australian Pritzker Prize laureate Glenn Murcutt on its program.
The festival ordinarily takes place at events across a number of cities in the United States and Canada, however physical distancing measures and bans on mass gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic mean that in-person theatre screenings can no longer take place.
The online festival will feature four films screened over four days and each film will be followed by a live Q&A with the film director.
Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place is a 2016 documentary made by Catherine Hunter and follows Murcutt during the construction of the Australian Islamic Centre in Melbourne’s Newport, designed in collaboration with Elevli Plus Architects.
James Hubbell - Between Heaven and Earth, 2019, by Marianne Gerdes.
“I believe the Australian Islamic Centre in Newport will be a singular career highlight for Glenn Murcutt both for what the building represents in a community sense but also what it has meant for him personally,” Hunter told ArchitectureAU in 2016. Hunter won the Adrian Ashton Prize for Architectural Culture and Literature in the 2019 NSW Architecture Awards for the film.
The documentary will screen at 8pm EST on Friday 17 April ( 10am AEST, Saturday 18 April).
The online festival also features films exploring the art and architecture of James Hubbell; four pioneering women in architecture; and concepts of home and how humans design and build shelters from a lagoon settlement in Lagos to a refugee camp in Iraq and a six-square-metre dwelling in Tokyo.
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