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 Gabor Kalman 15 French Architects in Los Angeles Art Center College of Design of Pasadena USA 2000, 57’ In the Fall of 1998 the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in the United States along with Southern California Institute of Architecture, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, USC School of Architecture, Art Center College of Design and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles hosted a six week series of lectures by leading contemporary French Architects. Their visits to Los Angeles are documented in this film. While the focus of the lecture series was on the production of public space, the film also reveals the individual philosophies of the architects and also emerges as a portrait of two cultures, two cities, two languages and fifteen different personalities. They show slides, answer questions and have discussions with students. We accompany them on a tour of major architectural landmarks in Los Angeles. In viewing public space they contrast the vast open spaces of Los Angeles with the more constricted landscape of Paris and comment on history, preservation, building codes and materials. The 15 French Architects in the film are as different from each other as any French person is different from any American, but at the end we came away with the feeling that perhaps architecture reflects, in a larger sense, both unique differences and similarities that exist between French and American society. In its humanistic, often humorous tone, the film transcends architecture and academic discourse and emerges as a warm psychological portrait of the meeting of two cultures. Gabor Kalman is an award winning documentary filmmaker. Born in Hungary, he came to the United States in 1956, where he first studied sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, then received his Masters degree in Communication and Film and Television from Stanford University. He is on the faculty of Art Center College of Design and at USC School of Cinema - Television where he is an adjunct professor. He is a founding member of the International Documentary Association and has served on its board for nine years. He created the prestigious David L. Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Awards. As a Senior Fullbright Scholar he also taught at the Academy of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest Hungary. |
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