Sag Harbor Cinema Sag Harbor, NY
Raffaella Bortoluzzi
Principal Architect and Founder of Raffaella Bortoluzzi Architecture
andFilippo Brunamonti
Producer
Things to Come— The shape of homes to come
Program Description
Sag Harbor Cinema salutes utopia as born in the mind of architects through cinema’s lens. This connection is explored in a special screening celebrating the intersection of architecture and technology, the “once” and the future, featuring H.G. Wells’ THINGS TO COME (1936). The screening is preceded by a special presentation from Raffaella Bortoluzzi Architecture. Bortoluzzi’s recent work suggests that the future Wells imagined may arrive via 3D-printing rather than prophecy. Her studio’s entry in Initiative 99—a global competition drawing architects from sixty nations to reimagine affordable housing in El Paso—proposes a merger of ancient wisdom and algorithmic precision.
Presented At
Sag Harbor Cinema Sag Harbor, NY
Film Synopsis
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
It's Christmas 1940, and Everytown resident John Cabal (Raymond Massey) fears that war is imminent. When it breaks out, the war lasts 30 years, destroying the city and ushering in a new dark age of plagues and petty despots. But there is hope in the form of Wings Over the World, a group of pacifist scientists and thinkers lead by Cabal. Their dream is to build a utopian society on the ruins of the old. But first they'll have to unseat the latest ruling tyrant (Ralph Richardson).
Written by H.G. Wells and based on his 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come.
Photo credit: United Artists/Photofest
About the Speaker
Raffaella Bortoluzzi approaches architecture research as narrative–a constant joining of episodes in a dialectical way. Signatures of Bortoluzzi’s work include carefully considered materials and forms that add poetic (and sometimes surreal) dimensions to a project, and moments where disparate objects live together harmoniously. Born in Venice, she obtained her bachelor's in architecture at Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Italy (IUAV) and her Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. After positions with Gluckman Mayner Architects and Rafael Viñoly Architects, she established Labo Design Studio in 2001, now known as Raffaella Bortoluzzi Architecture.
Filippo Brunamonti is a New York-based journalist who studied at Urbino Journalism School and pursued religion and anthropology in Jerusalem. As Correspondent at Large for La Repubblica, contributor for Esquire and Wired, and editorial producer for Google's Visual Lab, he focuses on arts, technology, and narrative non-fiction documentaries. His film collaborations include music consultation for Roberto Minervini's What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (Venice Film Festival Competition) and story development for The Damned (Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard).