This season of Film and Architecture in 2011 revealed architecture as both protagonist and active participant within the fabric of filmmaking. It also harnessed the immersive and narrative capabilities of film.

The Fourth Wall was a collaboration between Irish Film Institute and IAF. Rather than seeing the medium as a purely documentary tool, we were prompted to consider how film can unveil the intrinsic, even elusive, qualities of buildings and their settings.

 

In addition, there was a specially curated selection of footage from the IFI Irish Film Archive, and a symposium organised by GradCAM (Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media) in collaboration with UCD, Irish Architecture Foundation and the IFI.

Cinema Poster with image of Koolhaas HouseLife by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine (2008)

Programme

Koolhaas HouseLife by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine (2008)
Interiors, 2006 by Ursula Mayer (2006)
A Girl is a Fellow Here produced by Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
Beaubourg. Four films by Denis Postle (1980)
Botharbui by Heathcote Barr London (2008)
The Dilapidated Dwelling by Patrick Keiller (2000)
If Buildings Could Talk by Wim Wenders (2010)
Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati (1959)
Block B by Chris Chong Chan Fui (2008)
Chain by Jem Cohen (2004)
Daybreak Express by D. A. Pennebaker
Los Angelus Plays Itself by Thom Andersen (2003)
Dublin: Sean agus Nua (Short films from the IFI Archive)

Collaborators

Curator

Nathalie Weadick

Programmer IFI

Kevin Coyne

Archive IFI

Sunniva O Flynn

Graphics

Unthink

The Fourth Wall Symposium

Lisa Godson, Samantha McCauliffe, Moving Image, University of Cambridge; Richard Koeck, University of Liverpool; Douglas Smith, University College Dublin; Daniel Jewesbury; Nicky Gogan, Still Films, GradCAM/NCAD.

Sponsors

French Embassy, Goethe Institute, Arts Council