Design on Film

Thursday 8th November 6.30 pm - Lecture Theatre, Belfast Campus Designs on Film Cinema . Showing Charles and Ray Eames' seminal 'Powers of Ten' (1977); 'My Architect' a documentary on internationally respected architect Louis Kahn by his illegitimate son Nathaniel Kahn.
Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten ‘Powers of Ten’ (1977) has long been heralded as a classic within cinema. Opening with a close up of a picnic blanket in Chicago and zooming out by a factor of ten every ten seconds the film soon encompasses the entire universe, before collapsing back inwards, zooming in by a reverse factor, ultimately reaching the nucleus of an atom: A timeless classic. My Architect Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974. World-famous architect Louis Kahn (Exeter Library, Salk Institute, Bangladeshi Capitol Building) had two illegitimate children with two different women outside of his marriage. Nathaniel travels the world visiting his father’s buildings and haunts in this film, meeting his father’s contemporaries, colleagues, students, wives, and children.The National Assembly Building, Bangladesh, is the most amasing of all.