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Trailer for the summer 2021 program
presented by Los Angeles Filmforum
curated by Kate Brown with special thanks to Susanne Bürner

Program synopsis:
“A Film is Not a Building” surveys three films on four buildings, each one a modernist house.

The subjects are: Irving Gill’s 1916 Dodge House, in Los Angeles; the 1929 Warsaw residence designed by Bohdan Lachert and Józef Szanajca; and the Migishi Atelier and the Bunzo Yamaguchi House, in Tokyo, designed by Iwao Yamawaki and Bunzo Yamaguchi, respectively, in the 1930s and ‘40s. The filmmakers are: writer, Esther McCoy; artist, Susanne Bürner; and architect and professor at the Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Verena von Beckerath, in collaboration with colleagues Niklas Fanelsa, Momoko Yasaka, Maximilian von Zepelin, and Jens Franke—themselves artists, architects, designers, and filmmakers.

The program looks at the way these building films are used to understand, record, and transmit an experience of architectural space. And we will examine the relationship of two of these works to parallel writing and book projects.

On July 25, as part of a live conversation: Susan Morgan, editor of "Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader", will talk about McCoy’s film, a film which Morgan, in turn, saved; artist Susanne Bürner will discuss architects Lachert and Szanajca, their building, and her film project, “A House of One’s Own–Me and My Neighbors”; von Beckerath will present the “Two Houses” research project. Artist and co-curator Kate Brown will join the discussion.

Films and book available for viewing July 17–25. Live conversation on July 25 at 10am PDT / 19:00 CEST

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