Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy

2000 / 58 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood

Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy illustrates the unique intertwining of art and architecture throughout Gehry’s spectacularly aeclectic career. In this portrait, Gehry explores his work of the 1990’s including The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, as well as his first European commission, the EMR Communication and Technology Center in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. Seeing himself as an artist first, Gehry discusses his early relationships in the art world and how sculpture, painting and small scale work has influenced his architectural style. Like Rauschenberg, Johns, and Warhol, he has introduced “bad taste” into his concepts, while keeping himself outside of the contemporary dialogue between modernism and post-modernism. He has translated the vocabulary of contemporary art into an architectural language of his own, disobeying the rules of his profession and questioning its historic conventions.

Directed by
Michael Blackwood

Cast
Rolf Fehlbaum
Frank Gehry
Barbara Jakubeit
Ellsworth Kelly
Lyndel King
Peter Lewis
Manfred Ragati
Nina Ruge
Richard Serra
Rick Smith
Bernd Thiemann

Produced by
Michael Blackwood

Cinematography by
Uli Fischer
Tim Francisco
Joe Friedman
Mead Hunt
Tom Kaiser
Thomas Keller
David W. Leitner (David Leitner)
Christoph Lerch
Hans Rombach
Mark Trottenberg

Film Editing by
Julie Sloane

Production Management
Kathleen Diehl … production manager

Sound Department
Ed Cantu … sound recordist
Mario Cardenas … sound recordist
Gautam Choudhury … sound recordist
Frank Coakley … sound recordist
Ken King … sound recordist
Steve Robinson … sound recordist
Paul Veld … sound recordist

Camera and Electrical Department
Amy Bostwick … still photographer
Robert B. Henning … jib camera operator

IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt1836798

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