ARCHITECTURE WEEK
programme 3.
Presented by The Cabinet
(Sun 27th / 7.30pm / £6/5)

'My Architect: A Son's Journey' (Nathaniel Kahn / 2003 / 116 mins)

World-famous architect Louis Kahn (Exeter Library, Salk Institute,
Bangladeshi Capitol Building) had two illegitimate children with two
different women outside of his marriage. Son Nathaniel always hoped that someday his father would come and live with him and his mother, but Kahn never left his wife. Instead, Kahn was found dead in a men's room in Penn Station when Nathaniel was only 11. Nathaniel travels the world visitng his father's buildings and haunts in this film, meeting his father's
contemporaries, colleagues, students, wives, and children.

During the five years it took to make 'My Architect', Nathaniel examined what it means to have a famous father coupled with an exploration of his illegitimacy, and established himself as an artist in his own right. He also explores the challenges inherent in filming architecture, and how best to portray buildings on film.

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House: After Five Years Of Living (Charles Eames / 1955 / 11 mins)

The Eames House is a classic of post-war American architecture which the Eameses designed and built in 1949 as part of the Case Study House Program. This portrait is the first of a thread of their films that used still images in a very filmic way - the still camera offering a freedom and
flexibility that allowed Charles to regularly capture images of the house during their life there.
These images were then set to music composed by Elmer Bernstein.

'The Cabinet' hopes to present screening events focussing on
Architecture, design, urban design and overlapping issues within
the way we construct and live within the world.