Film And Design: Not The Usual Suspects
Every Wednesday in May @ 7:00pm
Nearly every film made, unless it’s simply about insects, sharks or penguins, depicts architecture, design and their relationship to human life. A shot of a house, an office, a car, a character holding a coffee cup – every one of these images involves the design of spaces and objects used by people.
The composition of film images itself is an act of architecture and design.
Every Wednesday in May at the Starz FilmCenter, the Denver Film Society in partnership with the Design Council of the Denver Art Museum present the four part FILM AND DESIGN series, which will explore four different aspects of the complex intersection of design, architecture and cinema while staying away from the usual suspects.
Curated by Howie Movshovitz, Education Director – Starz FilmCenter, who will introduce each film and moderate a conversation with the audience and a small panel of experts.
Films and Events in Program...
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USA
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1958
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128 min.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Program 1: Form And Space On Film
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock may be considered the great “master of suspense,” but he began his career as a graphic designer, and one can see in his work an equally masterful understanding of visual design and use of architectural forms and spaces. Hitchcock al...
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Soviet Union
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1928
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68 min.
Director:
Dziga Vertov
Wednesday, May 14 - 7:00pm
Program 2: Urban/Avant Garde
The Man With a Movie Camera
The 1920s were years of tremendous energy and imagination in the arts, and this program will present a mix of abstract, dadaist and futurist short films, followed by the feature-length “city symphony”
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70 min.
Program 4: 1930’s Politics and Design
Featuring A Program Of Clips:
“I’m Young and Healthy” from
42nd St. (Lloyd Bacon, 1933),
“Lullaby of Broadway” from
Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley, 1935)
“Never Gonna Dance” from
Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)
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105 min.
Featuring the films Kochuu and Louis I Kahn: An Offering To Architecture... more