Hammer Screenings
Shoot on Site: Architecture in Film
Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer, this eclectic series of films uses pre-existing private and public built environments as spaces of dread, liberation, alienation, or salvation, in concert or in conflict with the architect’s original vision.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 12, 7:30PM
MODERN SHORTS - curated by artist/filmmaker Terence Gower.
Architecture D’aujourd’hu, 1930
DIR: Pierre Chenal
35 mm, 10 min
Die Neue Wohnung, 1930
DIR: Hans Richter
35mm, 28 min
Ciudad Moderna, 2004
DIR: Terence Gower
Digital video, 6:20 min
10104 Angelo View Drive, 2004
DIR: Dorit Margreiter
Digital video, 6:56 min
Le Baiser (The Kiss) , 1999
DIR: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Digital video, 12 min
Interiors, 2006
DIR: Ursula Mayer
Digital video, 3 min
New Ark, 2001
DIR: François Boué
Digital video, 9:27 min
The Sneeze, 2008
DIR: Ulrik Heltoft
Digital video, 1:30 min
Water and Dust, 2004
DIR: Sadie Murdoch
Digital video, 7 min
Unité Mobile, 2005
DIR: Domènec
Digital video, 9:35 min
Rong Xiang, 2008
DIR: Caspar Stracke
Digital video, 8:32 min
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 7:30PM
THE CONFORMIST, 1970
A masterpiece of sexual repression and political cowardice shot almost entirely on location in Rome and Paris. The film features Rationalist architect Adalberto Libera’s Palazzo dei Congressi, part of Mussolini’s EUR project, re-cast as an insane asylum.
DIR: Bernardo Bertolucci | 35mm, 110 min
EVA, 1962
A spellbinding example of the director’s ever-attentive eye to the relationship between architecture and character. The classical backdrops of Rome and Venice provide chilly counterpoint as a dissolute writer is lured ever deeper into obsession and self-destruction by a seductive call girl.
DIR: Joseph Losey | 35mm, 103 min
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 7PM
CONTEMPT (Le Mépris) , 1963
A mercilessly self-conscious study of artistic compromise and marital meltdown, Contempt moves through a series of iconic locales, from the Cinecittà studios to architect Adalberto Libera’s breathtaking cliff top Villa Malaparte overlooking the Mediterranean.
DIR: Jean-Luc Godard | 35mm, 103 min
LES MYSTÈRES DU CHÂTEAU DE DÉ, 1929
Director Man Ray’s classic avant-garde frolic through Villa Noailles, designed by architect Robert Mallet Stevens.
DIR: Man Ray | 35mm, 27 min
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 7:30PM
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, 2002
This film transforms an industrial warehouse and a fluorescent-flooded grocery store into unlikely places for romance and posits that even the most anonymous architecture can launch inspired flights of fancy.
DIR: Paul Thomas Anderson | 35mm, 95 min
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 1971
Architectural magazines with futuristic settings inspire this adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s dystopian novel presenting a world in which modernist architecture has little influence. Note the Brutalist architecture of London’s Thamesmead South housing estate as the stomping ground for the infamous “Droogs.”
DIR: Stanley Kubrick | 35mm, 136 min
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 7PM
FIVE, 1951
Shot at the director’s own retreat, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, five survivors converge on the isolated wood and rubblestone structure perched atop a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains. Wright’s organic architecture serves as the last bastion for a new civilization.
DIR: Arch Oboler | 35mm, 93 min
THE TRIAL, 1963
Filmed entirely in Paris’s abandoned Gare d’Orsay, this film utilizes practically every corner of the station to visualize a bureaucratic legal nightmare that, according to Welles, is “the kind of sorrow that only accumulates in a railway station.”
DIR: Orson Welles | 35mm, 118 min
Please note: all archive events are ticketed.
Tickets are available online at www.cinema.ucla.edu and in person at the Billy Wilder Theater box office.
$9 General admission ($10 for tickets purchased online)
$8 Students, seniors, Cineclub members, and Hammer members
$7 Students and seniors who are also Cineclub members
Henry Coombes
Last Day of Exhibition
HAMMER Readings
Black Clock
On the eve of the national party conventions, the acclaimed literary journal Black Clock releases its ninth, politically-themed installment. Black Clock 9 includes political allegory, subversive satire, and secret presidential histories. Falling immediately after both conventions, this reading will feature four of its contributors: Seth Greenland, Anthony Miller, David L. Ulin, and Black Clock editor Steve Erickson.
Co-presented with Black Clock, the literary magazine published semi-annually by the CalArts MFA Writing Program.
Ryan Trecartin
First Day of Exhibition
Hammer Lectures
Is There Such a Thing as Los Angeles Cuisine?
Moderated by Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly
Zócalo brings together a panel of prominent local chefs that includes, among others, Michael Cimarusti, co-owner and executive chef of Providence Restaurant, Octavio Becerra, chef and owner of Palate Food & Wine, and Evan Kleinman, executive chef of Angeli Caffe and host of the show Good Food on KCRW to ask what exactly Los Angeles cuisine might be. Does it owe more to the confluence of global cultures or the extraordinary local produce, to car culture or to pure imagination? And where is it going?
For more information and the Zócalo calendar please visit www.zocalola.org.
HAMMER Forum
The War on Terror: Seven Years After 9/11
Jonathan Turley
Are we retaliating against the 9/11 attacks by attacking our own freedom? Professor Jonathan Turley discusses the significance of 9/11 and the costs of its aftermath to the Constitution and our civil liberties. He pinpoints how America lost its identity in the War on Terror and how it can be regained. Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas including constitutional law and legal theory. He is also active in representing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional issues.
Houseguest: Jennifer Bornstein Selects from the Grunwald Collection
Last Day of Exhibition
HAMMER Conversations
Amy Arbus & Alan Cumming
Acclaimed photographer Amy Arbus follows her award-winning monograph On the Street 1980–1990 with the publication of The Fourth Wall, a dramatic new collection of black and white portraits of celebrated stage actors, hailed by The New Yorker as her “masterpiece.” She is a contributing photographer to New York Magazine’s theater section, and her images have appeared in The New York Times Magazine and People, among others. Arbus’s photographs are a part of the The Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection in New York, and she teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography. Internationally famed Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming graces the cover of Arbus’s The Fourth Wall. He most recently appeared off-Broadway in The Seagull with Dianne Wiest, and also at the Lincoln Center as Dionysus in Euripides’ The Bacchae. Among his extensive film work, Cumming wrote, directed, produced and acted in The Anniversary Party, which won a National Board of Review Award and two Independent Spirit Award nominations. His activism and charity work for various civil rights and sex education causes has earned him two Human Rights Campaign awards and GLAAD’s Vito Russo media award.
Lunchtime Art Talks
Henry Moore's Untitled, 1938-55
Hammer Screenings
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
This sneak preview of a new documentary feature film traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life—and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century. Renowned architectural filmmaker Murray Grigor explores Lautner’s dramatic spaces as Lautner himself provides the commentary, speaking with insight and wit in recordings culled from archival sources. Includes comments from Frank Gehry, original clients, owners and builders, Frank Escher, and Julius Shulman.
Murray Grigor–writer/director, Anna Thomas + Sara Sackner–producers.
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Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Symposium: Against Reason
John Lautner and Postwar Architecture
Co-presented by the Hammer Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this two-day symposium includes a series of panels and presentations in which scholars, architects, engineers, and architectural historians employ John Lautner’s nonrational philosophy as a critical window onto postwar architecture in the United States and abroad.
Friday, September 19
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
3pm
Exhibition Walkthrough
Nicholas Olsberg and Frank Escher (exhibition co-curators)
4pm
Welcome remarks
Ann Philbin (Director, Hammer Museum)
4:15pm
Session 1: The Search for Fluidity
Stanford Anderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alan Hess (architecture critic and author)
Robert Bruegmann (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Wim de Wit (Getty Research Institute).
7:30pm
Engaging Lautner’s
Built Legacy in the 21st Century
Four avant-garde architects discuss the challenge of adding a new addition to one of Lautner’s residential structures. Participants include: Hernán Díaz Alonso, Principal, Xefirotarch; Neil M. Denari, Principal, Neil M. Denari Architects; Winka Dubbeldam, Principal, Archi-Tectonics; Frank Escher, Principal, Escher GuneWardena Architecture. Moderated by Christopher J. Alexander, Getty Research Institute.
Saturday, September 20
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center
10am
Keynote: Los Angeles, Capital of Lautner’s America
Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University)
11am
Session 2: The Shapes of Anti-Rationalism
Eric Mumford (Washington University in St. Louis)
Timothy Rohan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Dell Upton (University of California, Los Angeles).
2pm
Session 3: The California Condition
Sandy Isenstadt (Yale University)
Marc Treib (University of California, Berkeley)
3:15pm
Session 4: The Architecture of Attraction
Nicholas Olsberg (exhibition co-curator)
Sylvia Lavin (University of California, Los Angeles) Sessions 3 and 4 followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Greg Hise (University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
8pm
Free-Form Living: A Conversation with the
Clients and Colleagues of John Lautner
A lively panel of Lautner’s original clients and colleagues explore the challenges of creating and inhabiting buildings that reshaped the image of modernist architecture in the late 20th century. Participants include Helena Arahuete, Jacklyn Burchill, Kelly Lynch, Robain Poirier, John de la Vaux, and Guy Zebert. Moderated by Rani Singh, Getty Research Institute.
Admission is free. Separate reservations are required for each day of the symposium and evening conversations. Please call 310-440-7300 or visit the event calender at www.getty.edu to register. Please see www.getty.edu for updated information and a full schedule.
Hammer Presents
Flux
Who's Gonna Save My Soul
Includes a screening of the new Gnarls Barkley video Who’s Gonna Save My Soul presented by filmmaker Chris Milk, and a new collaborative video from filmmaker Syd Garon and artist Shepard Fairey, who will DJ the after-party.
Flux and the Hammer present special events showcasing innovative film and music with courtyard receptions. Free admission, RSVP suggested at www.flux.net. Please note that reservations do not guarantee seating.
HAMMER Readings
Festival of California Poets
The 2nd Annual PSA Festival of California Poets
To conclude the Poetry Society of America’s festival, celebrated Los Angeles-area poets Ralph Angel (winner of the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry for Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986–2006), Wanda Coleman (winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Mercurochrome), Maggie Nelson (author of Something Bright, Then Holes and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award finalist Jane: A Murder), and Charles Harper Webb (winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize and a Whiting Writers Award) read from their work. For more information on the festival, go to www.poetrysociety.org.
Co-presented by the Poetry Society of America, PEN Center USA, and UCLA.
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Panel Discussion: Architecture and Seduction
Bachelor Pads and Sex Machines
From leisurely pleasure palaces and the bon vivant’s intimate dens of seduction, to the tantalizing, suggestive tease of retail spaces, this panel discusses the relationship between architecture and eroticism. Moderated by Norman Millar, AIA, Director, Woodbury niversity School of Architecture. Panelists include: Paulette Singley, Professor, School of Architecture at Woodbury University; Frank Escher, architect and exhibition co-curator; Curator Renata Hejduk, Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University College of Design; Kazys Varnelis, Columbia University, New York.
Hammer Presents
Restless Brilliance
Exploring current trajectories in music and video while showcasing new work in the field of experimental electronic and audiovisual performance, Restless Brilliance presents artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance, and art.
Screening: Colorfield Variations, a collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists. Live performance: Shuttle358 seamlessly blends the soft sounds of ambient music with the granular aesthetics of modern digital minimalism.
Co-presented with Volume Projects.
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
UCLA Extension Course
Between Architecture and Cinema
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design
Taught by Jon Yoder, Assistant Professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture and PhD candidate in the UCLA Department of Architecture + Urban Design. Yoder’s doctoral dissertation, “Widescreen Architecture: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner,” takes Lautner’s projects as lenses through which to focus on issues of experiential and projective vision.
To register please call 310-206-1422 or visit www.uclaextension.edu.
Nathalie Djurberg
First Day of Exhibition
Mungo Thomson
Artist Talk
Thomson discusses his recent Negative Space project on view on the Lobby Wall, as well as other works from his film of a tree falling in the forest forest—literally—to a handmade comic book called Einstein.
