MidMod Movies is back!
Join us in person during our 14th season for this popular annual documentary film series of unique, critically-acclaimed movies from around the world featuring Mid-Century and Modernist architecture and design. Presented in partnership with London Public Library.
MAURICE AND I
Thursday, October 2, 7pm
Directors, Rick Harvie & Jane Mahoney
2024 | New Zealand | 98m
Having lost almost their entire life's work in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand architects Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney fight to save their finest building from demolition. A powerful story of partnership, loss, and the enduring importance of architecture in shaping and enriching our lives
Screenings this year will be on Thursday evenings at 7pm starting on Sept. 18 at the Central Branch of the London Public Library. Bus, bicycle & pedestrian accessible; subsidized parking with validation at the Library reception desk.
Bring a friend or three!
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EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
Thursday, October 9, 7pm
Directors, Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub
2024 | Switzerland | 90m
English & French, w subtitles
Irish designer Eileen Gray built a refuge on the Côte d‘Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, became intrigued and obsessed. This is a story about the power of one woman’s creative expression and a man’s desire to control it.
BUILT ON NARROW LAND
Thursday, October 16, 7pm
Director, Malachi Connolly
2013 | USA | 65m
European Modernism inspired a group of bohemian designers to build houses that married principles of the Bauhaus to the centuries-old local architecture of seaside New England. But in 1959, with the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore conservation area the fate of these houses suddenly hung in the balance.
YOUR TOMORROW 🇨🇦
Thursday, September 18, 7pm
Director, Ali Weinstein
2024| Canada | 94m
Captures the final year of Ontario Place, shifting between the protest actions and the efforts of staff to keep Ontario Place going. Through it all, ordinary people keep showing up to enjoy the park, to walk its trails, enjoy the lake, or check on the tomatoes they’re cultivating near the shore.
THE MIES VAN DER ROHES: A FEMALE FAMILY SAGA
Thursday, September 25, 7pm
Director, Sabine Gisiger
2022 | Switzerland | 80m
English & German, w subtitles
An epic family saga set in the era of Modernism, told through the women surrounding Mies van der Rohe. His wife Ada, his daughters Georgia, Manna, and Traudel, and his lover Lilly Reich embrace the opportunities of the new era, but also suffer the constraints of old patterns.
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