From: Madison Brookshire (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 18:03:01 PDT
Just writing in to second the recommendation of Richard Serra's films.
Railroad Turnbridge is great. It's a sort of structuralist love-song
to steel bridge-building.
Also, Steelworks is an explicitly political documentary Serra made
about a steel mill in Germany. I haven't seen it, but it's highly
praised by people I respect.
Although it's more tangential than what's been mentioned so far, I'd
recommend Bregtje van der Haak's Philip Johnson: Two of a Kind. This
very cutting documentary brilliantly explores and explodes the
politics of building and the power of architects. It reveals the
potentially darker side of modernist steel and glass architecture that
is commonly thought to be uniformly utopian. You also get to watch Dan
Graham call Philip Johnson a vampire. It's not a movie about steel
mills, but it is a movie about the kind of world that steel made
possible. (best seen inside Dan Graham's Three Linked Cubes, Interior
Design for Showing Videos:
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/three-linked-cubes/images/2/ )
I'm not sure if it's been released yet, but James Benning's
incredible, new video also has long segments involving steel mills.
Madison Brookshire
Los Angeles
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, malgosia askanas <email suppressed> wrote:
> Nobody mentioned The Deerhunter? All right, here it is.
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>
__________________________________________________________________
For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.