Design Victoria

MOVIE: EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA – 5-7pm

TIME
5:00 pm
LOCATION
Cinecenta Films, Student Union Building, 3800 Finnerty Road, University of Victoria

She built a house for herself. Unfortunately it turned out to be a masterpiece. Irish designer Eileen Gray builds a refuge on the Côte d‘Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He later covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027. Directed by Beatrice Minger, Co-directed by Christoph Schaub. 89 MIN. film. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, FRENCH; SUBTITLES: ENGLISH