ON SCREEN ongoing film series showcasing media projects
on themes of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies.
onSCREEN also incorporates panel discussions with
filmmakers and other professionals from the worlds
of film and film criticism.
Eames at The Ace Hotel | PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM WEEK
Where: Clubhouse event space, Ace Hotel, 701 E. Palm Canyon Dr
Palm Springs, CA 92264
As a part of Palm Springs Modernism Week, please join A+D Museum and the ACE Hotel in celebrating Eames at a special screening event with Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles and Ray Eames. The evening's program will include a two surprise Eames shorts and key films in the Eames pantheon as well as Eames Demetrios’s latest film ‘Elephant Safaris: To The Wilds’. Charles and Ray Eames were fascinated by elephants, and in 1945 they designed one out of molded plywood. Two prototypes were made, but complex-manufacturing techniques kept the Elephant out of production. It wasn't until Charles' grandson Eames Demetrios collaborated with Vitra that the Eames® Elephantwas mass-produced, now made of molded polypropylene. (A miniature versionmade of wood is also available.) Demetrios recently took the Elephant on Safari, creating this film for the Eames Office. For a fun twist, mute the soundtrack and replace it with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens.
Also on screen will be the famous 901: After 45 years of Working. This film is a document of the dissasembly of the famous Eame Office space at 901 Washington in Venice, California. 901 acts as a prism in examining the richness of the Eames' life and work. In addition to the screening, Eames Demetrios will also submit to an audience Q&A.
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A+D Museum presents EAMES onSCREEN with Eames Demetrios, grandson of Charles & Ray. Eames will present a special and surprising selection of Eames films as well as premiere his own latest film Elephant Safaris: To The Wilds. Join us for EAMES onSCREEN and learn family insight into these renowned productions.
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Photo Credit: Eames Demetrios, A Gathering of Elephants
onSCREEN with Evan Mather, Landscape Architect and Filmmaker
A+D Museum presents onSCREEN 2010, opening with a screening of three films by landscape architect and filmmaker Evan Mather: 39-A +The Image of the City + A Necessary Ruin. Guests enjoyed an outdoor picnic screening of these films.
A Necessary Ruin Upon its completion in October 1958, the Union Tank Car Dome, located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was the largest clear-span structure in the world. Based on the engineering principles of the visionary design scientist and philosopher Buckminster Fuller, this geodesic dome was, at 384 feet in diameter, the first large scale example of this building type. A Necessary Ruin relates the powerful, compelling narrative of the dome’s history via interviews with architects, engineers, preservationists, media, and artists; animated sequences demonstrating the operation of the facility; and hundreds of rare photographs and video segments taken during the dome’s construction, decline, and demolition. (Evan Mather, U.S.A., 2009, 29:54)
