Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Aalto / Euphoria Film presents ; a Virpi Suutari film ; producers, Timo Vierimaa, Virpi Suutari, Martti Suosalo ; script, Jussi Rautaniemi, Virpi Suutari ; director, Virpi Suutari.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, New York] : Film Movement, [2021]

Description:

1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

all regions

Summary:

A captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto: the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, this film tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976.

Aalto, Aino, 1894-1949.

Architects -- Finland -- Biography.

Architecture -- Finland -- History -- 20th century.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Biographical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Biographies.