Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival 2019: Highlights
The festival begins on 2 May in Auckland and runs in cinemas through the country.
A still from Frank Lloyd Wright – The Man Who Built America showing the architect’s project Ennis House.
In Renzo Piano: Architect of Light, Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura explores the actualisation of the Botin Center for Arts and Culture.
Antropocene: The Human Epoch is a visually striking film touches on this crucial point in environmental history with scenes from across the globe.
The Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival returns for its eighth year in 2019. This time, flicks for the aesthetically inclined will be screening in eight cities across the country beginning on 2 May in Auckland.
Curated once again by Clearly & Co and supported by Rialto Cinemas, the festival features movies centred around four themes: The Masters, The Creative Class, Less is Better and A Better Future. Covering topics ranging from the works of the world’s greatest architects to scrutinising global waste and the role design plays in bettering the world, the 2019 festival is sure to include something to pique everyone’s interest.
Opening weekend in Auckland features Frank Lloyd Wright – The Man Who Built America: a film displaying captivating imagery of Wright’s most famous works including Falling Water and the Guggenheim Museum. Easily a household name in American design, Wright is largely considered to have changed the face of modern architecture. In this film, Welsh architect Jonathan Adams takes viewers through the life and work of this iconic creator. Catch a Q&A hosted by Architectural Designers New Zealand after select showings of this film across the country.
Another of the greats, Renzo Piano, comes front and centre with a film by legendary Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura. In Renzo Piano: Architect of Light, the audience sees the architect’s Botin Center for Arts and Culture come to life. As Saura and Piano explore the actualisation of this building in Northern Spain, viewers are let in on the thought process behind design and the relationship between architecture and art. It is sure to be a visually compelling and thought-provoking piece.
Named by some as the biggest environmental film of the year, Antropocene: The Human Epoch is another title not to be missed. An overall cinematic experience and visual masterpiece, it follows the research of a group of scientists called the Anthropocene Working Group across the world from China to Australia and in between. The film documents what the researchers have called an “age of large-scale, profound and lasting human impact to the Earth”.
The Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival 2019 runs in:
- Auckland from 2 to 19 May
- Wellington from 23 May to 9 June
- Havelock North from 13 to 19 June
- Dunedin from 13 to 23 June
- New Plymouth from 20 to 26 June
- Christchurch from 27 June to 10 July.
See the full programme at resene.co.nz and purchase tickets at rialto.co.nz.
