[Videonews] New Release GREAT EXPECTATIONS - A Journey through the History of Visionary Architectu

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Great Expectations: A Journey through the History of Visionary =
Architecture is now available to Videonews subscribers. From the =
director of Kocuu, this new film depicts visionary architectural =
movements and personalities of the 20th century, including Rudolf =
Steiner, Le Corbusier, Levitt and Sons, Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, =
and Buckminster Fuller.

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=E2=80=9CAstounding images or more or less bizarre projects are =
intertwined with fantastic interview material... a documentary that =
treats the viewer seriously.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94Svenska Dagbladet

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF VISIONARY =
ARCHITECTURE

A Film by Jesper Wachtmeister

This documentary provides an astonishing journey through innovative, =
futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture =
projects-including concrete illusions of grandeur and Lego-like modular =
apartments to an Instant City Airship and round, grass-covered =
subterranean dwellings-from the beginning of the 20th century to today.=20

Since the end of the 19th century, due to industrialization and rapid =
technological progress, mankind has been confronted with new problems =
and possibilities. Visionary architects and artists, motivated by =
contemporary problems, including housing shortages, urban decay and =
pollution, set about to create changes in our ways of living that =
challenged conventional concepts of the good, the true and the =
beautiful.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS introduces us to the most significant architectural =
movements and personalities of the 20th century, including, among many =
others, Le Corbusier's functionalist cities, Buckminster Fuller's =
lightweight geodesic domes, Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 prefab =
apartments, Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum and other anthroposophy =
buildings in Switzerland, Oscar Niemeyer's sleek urban designs for =
Brasilia, Paolo Soleri's "archology" of crystal-like desert cities, =
Antti Lovag's curved surfaces of Palais Bulles in France, Jacque =
Fresco's utopian Venus Project in Florida, and Peter Cook and Colin =
Fournier's biomorphic Kunsthaus Graz in Austria.=20

Using archival and contemporary footage, animation and interviews, GREAT =
EXPECTATIONS tells the fascinating story of these grand architectural =
visions, both realized and unrealized, as explained by great thinkers =
with revolutionary, if not always successful, ideas.

<http://frif.com/new2007/gre.html> Read more here!

<http://frif.com/pdf/arch2007.pdf> or see our architecture catalog

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52 minutes / color / 2007
Sale/DVD: $390
Rental/DVD: $75
Order # AD7-08

- Please refer to Order # on all purchase orders and written requests.

- Free preview for purchase consideration is available.

- Purchase price includes Public Performance Rights.
- This film is available to our Canadian customers.

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Dear Videonews =
Subscribers,<o:p></o:p>

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Great Expectations:=C2=A0 A Journey =
through the
History of Visionary Architecture is now available to =
Videonews
subscribers.=C2=A0 From the director of Kocuu,
this new film depicts visionary architectural movements and =
personalities of
the 20th century, including Rudolf Steiner, Le Corbusier, =
Levitt and
Sons, Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, and Buckminster =
Fuller.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

=E2=80=9CAstounding images or more =
or less bizarre
projects are intertwined with fantastic interview material... a =
documentary
that treats the viewer seriously.=E2=80=9D=C2=A0 =E2=80=94Svenska =
Dagbladet<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

GREAT
EXPECTATIONS:=C2=A0 A
JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF VISIONARY =
ARCHITECTURE<o:p></o:p>

A
Film by Jesper =
Wachtmeister<o:p></o:p>

This
documentary provides an astonishing journey through innovative, =
futuristic,
utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture projects-including concrete
illusions of grandeur and Lego-like modular apartments to an Instant =
City
Airship and round, grass-covered subterranean dwellings-from the =
beginning of
the 20th century to today. <o:p></o:p>

Since
the end of the 19th century, due to industrialization and rapid =
technological
progress, mankind has been confronted with new problems and =
possibilities.
Visionary architects and artists, motivated by contemporary problems, =
including
housing shortages, urban decay and pollution, set about to create =
changes in
our ways of living that challenged conventional concepts of the good, =
the true
and the beautiful.<o:p></o:p>

GREAT
EXPECTATIONS introduces us to the most significant architectural =
movements and
personalities of the 20th century, including, among many others, Le =
Corbusier's
functionalist cities, Buckminster Fuller's lightweight geodesic domes, =
Moshe
Safdie's Habitat '67 prefab apartments, Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum and =
other
anthroposophy buildings in Switzerland, Oscar Niemeyer's sleek urban =
designs
for Brasilia, Paolo Soleri's "archology" of crystal-like =
desert
cities, Antti Lovag's curved surfaces of Palais Bulles in France, Jacque
Fresco's utopian Venus Project in Florida, and Peter Cook and Colin =
Fournier's
biomorphic Kunsthaus Graz in Austria. <o:p></o:p>

Using
archival and contemporary footage, animation and interviews, GREAT =
EXPECTATIONS
tells the fascinating story of these grand architectural visions, both =
realized
and unrealized, as explained by great thinkers with revolutionary, if =
not
always successful, ideas.<o:p></o:p>

<a
href=3D"http://frif.com/pdf/arch2007.pdf">or see our architecture =
catalog<o:p></o:p></a>

<o:p> </o:p></span=
>

52 minutes / color / =
2007 
Sale/DVD: $390 
Rental/DVD: $75 
Order # AD7-08<o:p></o:p>

-
Purchase price includes Public Performance Rights. 
- This film is available to our Canadian =
customers.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

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First Run/Icarus =
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Floor<o:p></o:p>

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[Videonews] *New Release* GREAT EXPECTATIONS - A Journey through the History of Visionary Architectu

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