Steven Holl: The Body in Space
1998 / 58 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood
Steven Holl: The Body in Space explores the career of the innovative, highly renowned American architect. In this portrait Holl presents some of his most acclaimed works, including the Makuhari Housing Complex in Chiba, Japan and the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle. Centered around the completion of Holl’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, the film observes his process and reasoning throughout the duration of the project. Constantly creating through the concept of phenomenology, Holl infuses his work with his philosophy explaining, “Phenomenology, for me, is the study of essences, and I believe that architecture has the potential in the twenty-first century to put essences back into existence.”
Directed by
Michael Blackwood
Cast
Vito Acconci
Tuula Arkio
Steven Holl
Vesa Honkonen
Juhani Pallasmaa
Produced by
Michael Blackwood … producer
Susann Inberg … co-producer
Cinematography by
Amy Bostwick
Christopher Frymann
Mead Hunt
Timo Peltonen
Seth Schneidman
Mark Trottenberg
Pekka Uotila
Film Editing by
Julie Sloane
Production Management
Kathleen Diehl … production manager
Sound Department
Felix Andrew … sound recordist
Heikki Innanen … sound recordist
John Murphy … sound recordist
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