One of the largest architecture and design film festivals in the world launches in Auckland tonight with more than twenty film.
This year the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival celebrates its 10 years and is hitting big screens in Auckland, then Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch from May 6 to the end of June.
Rialto Cinemas group manager Kathryn Bennett said the festival anniversary feels extra special to be hosting at the cinemas all over the country, while the rest of the world is going through a pandemic.
“It feels so hard to believe that when the festival would have normally opened in May last year, not one cinema in the country was operating,” she said.
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An opening night of the festival is the screening of documentary Tokyo Ride screening on Thursday in Rialto Cinema in Newmarket.
Tokyo Ride will be screening in Auckland on May 6, May 15 and May 19 with more screen time in Wellington , Dunedin and Christchurch next month. Photo/ Supplied.
The film is a road movie where one of Japan’s most famous architects, Ryue Nishizawa, takes viewers on a ride around Tokyo in his vintage Alfa Romeo for a day.
The award-winning architect tells tales about his home town and talks about buildings that influenced his work while wandering in a beloved small car on a rainy day.
The black and white movie shot on a handheld camera and directed by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine, isn’t so much about the architecture, it’s a road movie about the atmosphere, the journey that was created by intimacy of the car ride, directors say.
For those who are missing travel, another film with a Japanese influence is George Nakashima: Woodworker directed by John Nakashima who will explore the legacy of the iconic Japanese- American furniture maker, an architect who turned craftsman and designer.
The documentary Aalto is taking viewers to Europe as it captivates a creative journey of Scandic designer Alvar Aalto - a pioneer of modern architecture and design.
Directed by Virpi Suutari, the tour of Aalto’s creative process also shares an intimate love story between the iconic modern architect and his first Aino and second wife Elissa, for the first time.
An Impossible Project directed by Jens Meurer is shot on 35mm film and it;s an ultimate digital versus analogue documentary. Photo/ Supplied
Another film not to miss during Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival is made by Joseph Hillel about four women architects who have been working on ways to transform cities over the next 70 years.
City Dreamers features architects Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Cornelia Nahn Oberlander and Denise Scott Brown who are leaving a huge mark across cities in North America and Europe and showing the viewer what four inspired women can do when united.
This year Auckland and Wellington will have additional films showing on the last four days of the festival with Wellington audience having options for cinemas when the festival takes place from May 20 to June 6.
- Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival: Auckland May 6 to May 23; Wellington May 20 to June 6; Dunedin June 3 to June 13; Havelock North, June 10 to 16; Christchurch June 10 to June 23; New Plymouth June 17 to 23.
For programmes and tickets see here:
https://www.rialto.co.nz/eventsfestivals/resenearchitecturedesignfilmfestival
