After an inaugural tour of Australian cities in 2017, the ArchiFlix Architecture and Design Film Festival returns in 2018 with films about Zaha Hadid and Eero Saarinen.
ArchiFlix began as a series of one-night-only film screenings, which ArchiFlix director Sally Darling said were “so well attended, and the number of available films [of] such good quality, that it made sense to expand the program to a festival format.”
After a program of 12 films in 2017, ArchiFlix is returning for a “One Night Stand Tour” in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth that is composed of two feature films accompanied by drinks and canapés.
These films are Zaha: An Architectural Legacy and The Architect Who Saw The Future, which tells the story of the Finnish-American modernist and neo-futurist Eero Saarinen through some of his most prominent works, including the TWA Flight Centre at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
The documentary features interviews with architects Kevin Roche, César Pelli, Rafael Viñoly, and Robert A. M. Stern on the ways in which Saarinen influenced both their work and architecture more broadly. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, curator Donald Albrecht, author Jayne Merkel and Saarinen biographer and Architectural Record editor-in-chief Cathleen McGuigan also provide expert commentary.
Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Centre in The Architect Who Saw The Future.
Zaha: An Architectural Legacy was released in 2017 to coincide with the first anniversary of the late Pritzker Prize-laureate’s death. Produced by British architecture magazine the Architects’ Journal, the documentary features interviews with collaborator Patrik Schumacher, architects Eva Jiřičná and Nigel Coates, urbanist Ricky Burdett, AJ editor-in-chief Christine Murray and engineer Hanif Kara.
The One Night Stand Tour kicks off in Sydney on 5 July. For more information, go here.
