Film Festival Hits Chicago

This year the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) is extending its programming to Chicago, in a festival taking place May 5-9 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, with some films screened at The Wit up State Street.



According to the web page, this is "how [the] festival works:

• 39 Films - ranging in length from a 2 minutes to 93 minutes.
• Each of the individual films have been curated into 15 programs.
• Tickets are sold by program and each program presents 1-4 films of varying lengths.
• Programs have a total running time of approximately 90 minutes.
• Most programs will be shown two times during the festival."

Browsing the list of films, some of the highlights include:

• How much does your building weight Mr. Foster?
• Space Land And Time: Underground Adventures With Ant Farm
• Saving Lieb House
• Visual Acoustics
• My Playground
• Citizen Architect - Samuel Mockbee And The Spirit Of The Rural Studio
• Studio Gang Architects: Aqua Tower
• Malls R Us
• Eye Over Prague