Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Built on Narrow Land
The Design
American Artifact
PressPausePlay
Art of Faith
The Human Scale
Rodia-Estudiantina
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
La Tour
Herman's House
Be Like an Ant
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
The Unstable Object
The Architecture of Doom
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Form and Function
Fandor celebrates the contributions of designers and architects and their influence in cinema and people's lives.
With films by René Clair and Lawrence Jordan and profiles on Charles and Ray Eames, movie poster designers, and urban planners, this diverse group of films gives a vast overview of modern design.
Selected Films
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Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Design history was born in a cavernous warehouse on a gritty street in Venice Beach, California, where Charles and Ray Eames set up their Renaissance-style studio in the optimistic flush of American victory during World War II. Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey's definitive cinematic...Watch Movie
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Built on Narrow Land
A film that looks at a moment in Cape Cod when the spirit of European modern architecture inspired a group of bohemian designers (professionals and amateurs both) to build houses that married principles of the Bauhaus to the centuries-old local architecture of seaside New...Watch Movie
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Be Like an Ant
Post-Vietnam, Paul bought a trailer for his family to live in. Annoyed by how bad living inside a mobile home during winter could be, he took matters into his own hands and started to build a house around the trailer. He never made any blueprints. As the house took shape, he would take a part of...Watch Movie
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Herman's House
Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement in America (40 years and counting in a 6-by-9-foot cell). This award-winning documentary is a moving account of the remarkable expression his struggle finds in an unusual art project proposed by New York artist Jackie...Watch Movie
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Rodia-Estudiantina
In explaining the filming of RODIA-ESTUDIANTINA, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "Except for the removal of one out-of-focus shot, which I did not feel fit into the texture of the piece, I have never been able to change this footage from the way it came out of the camera. The...Watch Movie
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How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
A portrait of one of the world’s premier architects, HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER? follows Norman Foster’s unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. By investigating his origins to how his dreams and influences inspired the design of...Watch Movie
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Stonefaced
Robert King was profiled in the New York Times in March 2013 and he was described as an "urban safari hunter of stone faces." These architectural details tend to be ignored by New Yorkers and others who walk the streets of New York City. King, a lifelong Harlem resident, loves to find and...Watch Movie
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The Architecture of Doom
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, THE ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside...Watch Movie
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The Unstable Object
Daniel Eisenberg's THE UNSTABLE OBJECT juxtaposes the production of luxury automobiles in Dresden, clocks in Chicago and cymbals in a town outside of Istanbul. These detailed observations of modern factories reveal the distance between the creation and consumption of objects...Watch Movie
