E1027 - EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA + LIVE Q&A
We are honoured to welcome Dr. Jane Hall, for a live Q&A after the screening! Dr. Hall is the author of the books Breaking Ground, Architecture by Women (Phaidon, 2019) and Woman Made (Phaidon, 2021) about the work of women designers globally, and founder member of Assemble, a London-based, Turner Prize-winning architecture collective. A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic Irish artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house, E.1027, on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier. A beautiful and very unique journey into the mind of Eileen Gray, that not only tells the story of the E.1027, but also explores themes of female expression, and men’s desire to control it. Eileen Gray had a truly eminent sense of design. The Irish artist and architect created some of the most iconic furniture of the 20th century, so when she focused her unique artistic vision on developing a house for herself on the Riviera in 1929, the result was a modernist triumph. A house and a work of art in one, overlooking the sun-sparkled infinity of the Mediterranean. The house is named E.1027, a cryptic contraction of the names of Gray and her lover, Romanian architect Jean Badovici. But when the Swiss-French star architect Le Corbusier learns of the house, he becomes obsessed – perhaps because Gray breathes light, air and soul into her building, which is not just a machine to live in. E.1027 – EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA reconstructs the dramatic story of Gray and the house that Le Corbusier amazingly managed to convince the world he had built himself. A stunningly beautiful and cinematic docufiction where the inspiration from Gray is present in lines, colours and shapes – but where they serve the narrative of a brilliant female artist who spent a long life in the shadow of her male colleagues. Dr. Jane Hall is the inaugural recipient of the British Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and founding member of the architecture collective, Assemble, who won the Turner Prize in 2015 for their work in Granby, Liverpool. Her particular focus is on interdisciplinary practice between artists and architects, and the emergence of alternative methods for architectural design. Jane completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art, London (2018) where her research looked at the legacy of modernist architects working in both Brazil and the UK. Jane has held a number of positions, including as jury member for the Stirling Prize (2017) and external examiner at the University of Cambridge. Jane has lectured internationally at The School of Arts Institute Chicago (SAIC), Princeton University and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), among others and is a visiting lecturer and regular critic at the Royal College of Art, Bartlett School of Architecture and University of Cambridge.DocumentaryPT2H10M152025-06-22Eileen Gray
Charles Morillon
Axel Moustache
Beatrice Minger
Frank Matter
Philip Delaquis
E1027 - EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA + LIVE Q&A"E1027 - EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA + LIVE Q&A"Showtimes
June 22, 2:30 pm
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