Design Onscreen’s latest film, Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island is now available in a special 2-DVD set.  Order your copy today!

Celebrate the best in films on architecture and design at eleven screening events, featuring 13 films, including discussions with dynamic filmmakers, architects and design experts, plus five receptions hosted by Denver’s favorite eateries, retail stores and galleries.

Films will screen on Thursdays at 7pm ($25 DFS members/20 non-members, including receptions), Fridays at 4:30pm ($12/$10), and Saturdays at 2pm ($12/10) during the first three weeks of the series, with final screenings at 7pm on Thursday, Sept. 27 and Friday, Sept. 28 ($25/20, including receptions).

Series Passes ($90 members/$110 non-member) are also available.

Each week brings a new focus: Modern Week (Sept. 6-8); Global Reach Week (Sept. 13-15), Icons Revisited Week (Sept. 20-22) and Sustainability Week (Sept. 27-28) with a special closing event in conjunction with the US Passive House Conference.

For tickets and more information, please visit www.denverfilm.org.

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Director Jake Gorst’s new film Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island has been making the rounds at film festivals nationwide, as well as in New Zealand, since its February premiere in Palm Springs.

Now, Modern Tide has been selected to screen at the 15th annual Long Island International Film Expo, on July 12, 2012 at 12 p.m. The festival runs from July 12-19, 2012, in New York. Come join us if you are in the area.

Please join us and over 20,000 design professionals at this year’s Dwell on Design: Modern Beyond Expectations at the LA Convention Center. Four Design Onscreen films will be shown at Dwell on Design’s special screening room. The 4 films are:

• Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island (2012, Director Jake Gorst, 86 minutes)
• Desert Utopia: Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs (2010, Director Jake Gorst, 58 minutes)
• Contemporary Days: The Designs of Lucienne and Robin Day (2010, Murray Grigor, 77 minutes)
• Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes (2009, Amie Knox, 30 minutes)

DVDs of the films will be at the Dwell on Design bookstore, operated by Skylight Books. The event is free for design professionals. Non-design professionals are welcome to attend with a registration fee. To receive $5 off your registration fee, please use the code: 20dodem12. [Here’s the link to the registration page: http://dod.dwell.com/registration/]

Featured Panel Discussion afterwards with Director Jake Gorst, Architecture Historian Alastair Gordon, and others.

The New York Premiere of Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island Sponsored by AIA New York Chapter Center for Architecture at La Guardia Place.

The Inaugural Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival will feature films showcasing excellence, creativity and innovation in architecture and design.

William Krisel, Architect
Desert Utopia: Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs
Journeyman Architect: the Life and Work of Donald Wexler
Contemporary Days: The Designs of Lucienne & Robin Day
Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island

at Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival in Auckland, New Zealand

Explore the work of the region’s best postwar architects and designers in Design Onscreen’s latest film.

April 26 – May 3, 2012

Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island is screening
at the Newport Beach Art, Architecture + Design Film Series in
Newport Beach, California.

Join Design Onscreen on March 22 — one day only — for six great films on architecture and design during WestWeek at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California. WestWeek is the essential industry gathering designed to inspire with over 60 cutting-edge programs.

For the first time, WestWeek will feature architecture and design film programming curated by Design Onscreen–The Initiative for Architecture and Design on Film. Check the schedule below for Read the rest of this entry »

ONE NIGHT ONLY

Texas Premiere of Modern Tide: Midcentury Architecture on Long Island

Presented by Houston Mod, Houston Modern Market, and Design Onscreen
February 23, 2012, 7 p.m., $25
River Oaks Landmark Theater
2009 West Gray
Houston, TX 77019

for tickets: www.LandmarkTheaters.com

This is a fundraiser for Houston Mod and Design Onscreen. Design Onscreen will use its donations to fund production of a film on Houston modern architecture Read the rest of this entry »

IDS Design Docs Festival
Presented by Esther Shipman, Marc Glassman and Design Onscreen
January 27 – 28, 2012
Toronto Metro Convention Centre

Celebrate the very best in films on design and architecture at the Interior Design Show (IDS) Toronto.

Sponsorship opportunities for the Series and individual screenings are still available. For more information contact Esther Shipman at eshipman@cambridgegalleries.com or Heather Purcell Leja at hpleja@designonscreen.org

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