Movies: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
- 2007
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air (2007)
Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air3.72007HD
A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life, his inspirations, and his aspirations towards a just Brazil, and the ways he tried to help that along in his spectacular and beautiful bu...
- 1957
Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur (1957)
Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur5.31957HD
Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and its necessary adaptation to modern life with plans, drawings and images, particularly Paris, whose rev...
- 2019
Charlotte Perriand, Pioneer in the Art of Living (2019)
Charlotte Perriand, Pioneer in the Art of Living3.82019HD
This documentary explores Perriand's development from her own perspective, from the 1930s, when she made common cause with Le Corbusier and avant-garde art, to her discovery of Japan, where she was inspired to incorporate aspects of Japanese traditio...
- 1938
The Builders (1938)
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Produced for the National Federation of Building Workers Ciné-Liberté, a Popular Front organization intended to counteract capitalist interests in the film industry, Epstein’s union documentary examines building policy from the perspective of ordinar...
- 1950
Life Begins Tomorrow (1950)
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Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it to the U.S. in 1952 as Life Begins Tomorrow. Made in cooperation with UNESCO, the film speculates on the future of m...
- 2019
L'Esprit Le Corbusier (2019)
L'Esprit Le Corbusier3.32019HD
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- 2008
The Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa (2008)
The Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa0.32008HD
VOLUME ZERO is an hour-long documentary on the work and the ideas of Charles Correa, one of the world’s most important architects. It deals with his childhood, architectural training, formative years and the paradigm underlying his large and complex ...
- 1930
L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (1930)
L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui5.31930HD
Regarding Le Corbusier: the man and his architecture...
- 2023
The Promise, Architect BV Doshi (2023)
The Promise, Architect BV Doshi4.32023HD
Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023) is one of India's most influential 20th century architects and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Doshi and his practice Vastu-Shilpa has a portfolio spanning over 70 years, including collaborations with both L...
- 1967
Le Corbusier (1967)
Le Corbusier5.31967HD
Making a documentary on Le Corbusier is not easy, because he is undoubtedly the architect most familiar to the general public but also the most unknown. If most people know his great achievements, such as the Cité radieuse of Marseille, the pavilions...
- 1958
Electronic Poem (1958)
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Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as...
- 2017
Konstsamlaren och katastrofen (2017)
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"The Art-collector and the catastrophe" - The untold story of how Sweden lost a world class art collection. Private art collector Theodor "Teto" Ahrenberg obtained art directly by artists like Picasso, Chagall and Matisse. He became friends with the ...
- 2013
Amancio Williams (2013)
Amancio Williams2.92013HD
A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams....
- 1969
La Chapelle de Ronchamp (1969)
La Chapelle de Ronchamp5.31969HD
Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Rochamp (France) and its curves. To create this Catholic place, at the beginning of the 1950s, Le Corbusier was inspired b...
- 1931
Bâtir (1931)
Bâtir5.31931HD
After filming the construction site of the Berlitz Palace (2nd), Pierre Chenal shows us in contrast other contemporary architectural achievements which, using the same technical processes, do not sacrifice the structure of iron and concrete for decor...