May 6th, 2011 marked the international premiere of “A Girl is a Fellow Here” ~ 100 Women in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. The film was shown at the Irish Film Institute as part of a program titled “The Fourth Wall.” The program ran from May 5th to 16th and showcased the relationship between architecture and movie images. “A Girl is a Fellow Here” was shown with other shorts including Ursula Mayer’s Interiors and Beaubourg, Four Films by Denis Postle.
The program was presented by the Irish Architecture Foundation in collaboration with the University College Dublin School of Architecture.Program curators were Nathalie Weadick (Director, IAF) and Samantha Martin-McAuliffe (UCD School of Architecture).
Photo Credit: Excerpt from IFI May program. Women draftsman image courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
From The Fourth Wall program listing:
The Fourth Wall reveals architecture as both protagonist and active participant in the fabric of film making. It also harnesses the immersive and narrative capabilities of film. Rather than seeing the medium as a purely documentary tool, we are promoted to consider how film can unveil the intrinsic, even elusive, qualities of buildings and their settings. By attending to the richness of architectural place and space, this series asks questions and challenges preconceptions about how we inhabit architecture, both temporally and spiritually, as well as through memory and fiction.
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