Update: Coast Modern will be playing at on the following days
Friday, July 6, 6:45pm
Saturday, July 7, 6:45pm
Sunday, July 8, 6:45pm
Monday, July 9, 7:00pm
Tuesday, July 10, 7:00pm
Wednesday, July 11, 7:00pm
Thursday, July 12, 7:00pm
Original story: "Moderism is a beautiful failure. You cant call it a success when 90 per cent of people do not want to live in a modernist house.
So goes the opening voiceover of the hotly anticipated Coast Modern, a sweeping ode to the West Coast modernist movement.
Love of modernist architecture brought together producer Leah Mallen with directors Gaven Froome and Mike Bernard in an exploration of past and present influences (going back to its first incarnations in 1922) on the distinct West Coast legacy. Interspersed with interviews from present-day designers such as Douglas Coupland, the documentary is as much a testament to what people from previous decades discovered when they migrated west as to what they accomplished with it.
Moderism came from a desire to be integrated into the environment, having nature be a part of how we live, explained Mallen, whose film glides through the glass and over the water features of some of the most stunning examples still standing. I think people look to real estate now as investment property instead of a place they want to live. People are leaning towards putting up mass developments and not spending the time and effort or financial investment on making something thats going to last a long time. And thats part of what we want people to be discussing. Its important to have these structures for us a human beings and how we live. To preserve all these places.
By stripping away the concept of a house to its bare essentials, these houses became a controversial way of life. Works by pioneers such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Vancouvers Arthur Erikson are vanishing gems, appreciated by a select few who relate to the stark ideal of being embedded in the landscape and can afford to preserve or commission such substantial residences.
Choosing from five years of footage shot between LA and 麻豆传媒映画meant many buildings didnt make the final edit. In partnership with Knowledge Network, the creators of Coast Modern are working on an interactive website, including clips from houses that didnt make the film.
DOXA (May 4-13) is presented by The Documentary Media Society, a 麻豆传媒映画based non-profit society devoted to presenting independent and innovative documentaries to 麻豆传媒映画 audiences. The May 8 screening of Coast Modern is sold out. For the full schedule of documentaries go to .
