Lecture and GOFF IN DER WÜSTE
Sun 13.04.
19:00
Cinema
Akademie der Künste
In his introductory lecture, Emigholz asks: “Is there a queer architecture? Bruce Goff held the internationally renowned chair of architecture at the University of Oklahoma from 1947. In 1955, he was forced out of his position by a scandal orchestrated by a Bauhaus faction because of his homosexuality. The architect and Nazi Philip Johnson, who as an International Style ideologue kept Goff and Rudolph Schindler successfully away from major commissions, did not find his homosexuality a problem in the homophobic US. So sexual orientation is not the answer to the question. But can anything be read from the buildings?”
Director
Heinz Emigholz
Germany / 2003
110 min.
/ DCP
/ Original version
Original language
German
GOFF IN THE DESERT shows 62 buildings by the US architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982) - from small gas stations to prestigious museum buildings - and is thus the first comprehensive film documentation of almost all of his buildings still in existence. Bruce Goff is the great unknown of an original American architecture. His architectural inventions and designs were at odds with the ideals of the exclusive International Style movement, which by contrast has become known. The controversies that Bruce Goff's works caused during his lifetime are legendary. Almost every one of his buildings was a shock to the landscape, unleashing new possibilities for architecture. The film was shot over 40 days in the spring of 2002 on a 9,200-mile journey through the US.
Funded by:
Arsenal on Location is funded by the Capital Cultural Fund
The international programs of Arsenal on Location are a cooperation with the Goethe-Institut
