Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry

Born: February 28, 1929
in Toronto, Canada
Frank Owen Gehry, CC, FAIA is a Canadian-born American architect and designer, residing in Los Angeles. A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions.

Movies for Frank Gehry...

The Making of MPK 21
Title: The Making of MPK 21
Character: Self
Released: November 5, 2018
Type: Movie
The latest addition to Facebook's Menlo Park campus, MPK 21, is now open for business, and it’s truly a marvel to behold. The film features an interview with legendary architect Frank Gehry, who provided unique insight into the building’s design and functionality. Also featured are Facebook’s VP of Global Facilities, John Tenanes, and VP of HRBP, Diversity, Programs & Operations, Janelle Gale, who speak to the cultural values and priorities that drove MPK 21’s construction– from being environmentally friendly to helping Facebook to be a better neighbor in the community.
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Frank Gehry: Building Justice
Title: Frank Gehry: Building Justice
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Is there a better way to design a prison? This inspiring documentary, connecting architecture with social policy, follows the legendary Frank Gehry (designer of Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion) as he sets out to answer this question in 2017. Collaborating with architecture students, former inmates, and prison experts, Gehry and his colleagues grapple with complex social, political, emotional, structural, and aesthetic challenges to re-envision the future of incarceration.
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Jeff Koons
Title: Jeff Koons
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 2017
Type: Movie
Jeff Koons is a MOCA commissioned mini-documentary on the career of artist Jeff Koons, directed by Oscar Boyson.
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Along for the Ride
Title: Along for the Ride
Character: Self
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the filmmaking career of Dennis Hopper.
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Burden
Title: Burden
Character: Self
Released: April 16, 2016
Type: Movie
A probing portrait of Chris Burden, an artist who took creative expression to the limits and risked his life in the name of art.
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Frank Gehry: The Architect Says
Title: Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?"
Character: Himself
Released: June 23, 2015
Type: Movie
A fascinating look at the colorful career of architect Frank Gehry who despite being well into his eighties remains one of the world's most celebrated and famously provocative creative forces. From the iconic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gehry's buildings both intrigue and ignite. For Frank, rules are there to be broken. Alan Yentob explores Gehry's remarkable journey from poor outsider in Toronto to global 'starchitect' and follows the construction of a characteristically audacious new Gehry building in Sydney - his first in Australia.
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The Competition
Title: The Competition
Character: Himself
Released: October 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A raw account of how some of the world's leading architects, giants such as Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, struggle to beat the competition for the National Art Museum in Andorra.
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The Making of an Avant-Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984
Title: The Making of an Avant-Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 2013
Type: Movie
The Making of an Avant-Garde presents the creation and existence of the IAUS in the architectural, cultural, and political climate of the time, from the anti-War riots, the Women's Movement to the Paris May '68 revolution and the crime ridden and the bankrupt New York City of the 70's, through rich and abundant footage. The Institute, founded in 1967 with close ties to The Museum of Modern Art, made New York the global center for architectural debate and redefined architectural discourse in the United States. A place of immense energy and effervescence, its founders and participants were young and hardly known at the time but would ultimately become some of the most influential figures in the field shaping architectural practice and theory for decades. The Institute became the most significant and energetic crossroad in the path of rethinking architecture and the city and it's influence is still felt today.
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Frank Gehry: Architecture in Motion
Title: Frank Gehry: Architecture in Motion
Character: Himself
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Visionary architect Frank Gehry, Canadian born, Los Angeles based and world renowned, is the subject of this inspiring documentary from the popular prime-time arts program, Adrienne Clarkson Presents. An iconoclast with great reverence for the past, Gehry is constantly breaking new ground. Experimenting with new and non-traditional materials, he has changed the vernacular of architecture and furniture design. Symbolism, emotion and spirit invigorate the many exciting international projects which artists, architects, critics and Gehry himself discuss in this retrospective.
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Title: Finding Your Roots
Character: Self
Released: March 24, 2012
Type: TV
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
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Title: Masterclass
Character: Self
Released: April 18, 2010
Type: TV
MasterClass is a documentary television series airing on HBO. Each half-hour episode documents the experience of a small group of young artists working with a famous mentor. The series premiered on HBO on April 18, 2010 with opera star Plácido Domingo working with three aspiring young singers. The students in the program are chosen from participants in the Miami-based organization, YoungArts, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, which supports emerging artists. The series is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon of the Simon & Goodman Picture Company. The Executive Producer is Lin Arison. In July 2011 the series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program in 2011.
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Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
Title: Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Infinite Space, a documentary feature film, traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and no end.” It is the story of brilliance and of a complicated life – and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
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The Cool School
Title: The Cool School
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 2008
Type: Movie
How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch.
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
Title: Sketches of Frank Gehry
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2006
Type: Movie
First and foremost, Frank Gehry is an artist. Described as a young child as having golden hands, Frank begins his creation through sketch. Forming thought into substantive sculpture, the marriage of art and architechure is brought to life. Join director Sydney Pollack on a journey into the world and work of the most important architect of our Age.
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My Architect: A Son's Journey
Title: My Architect: A Son's Journey
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2003
Type: Movie
World-famous architect Louis Kahn (Exeter Library, Salk Institute, Bangladeshi Capitol Building) had two illegitimate children with two different women outside of his marriage. Son Nathaniel always hoped that someday his father would come and live with him and his mother, but Kahn never left his wife. Instead, Kahn was found dead in a men's room in Penn Station when Nathaniel was only 11.
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Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
Title: Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
With the participation of famed architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman: Making Architecture Move provides an intimate look into the work of the daring and controversial creator. Filmed in the U.S. and Germany, Eisenman takes the viewer through several of his buildings, including the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, while explaining his upcoming projects such as the Rebstockpark community in Frankfurt and the Max Reinhardt monument in Berlin. His predecessors and contemporaries offer praise and commentary on Eisenman's complex body of work including their own thoughts and theories surrounding his unique style.
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The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Title: The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage. Cage is considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. This documentary features interviews with various personalities from different fields as they introduce us to the life and work of this great American artist.
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Deconstructivist Architects
Title: Deconstructivist Architects
Released: December 31, 1990
Type: Movie
By the end of the 1980's a new architectural sensibility challenged the prevailing post-Modern attitude and brought forth new and daring designs. Driven by the philosophy and theory of Jacques Derrida, the architects of Deconstructivism are rooted in a movement that urges us to examine the space we move through. Deconstructivist Architects documents explosive and seemingly chaotic structures from Vienna to L.A., and interviews those who pursue its aesthetic issues. Filmed on location with the architects and at the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Deconstructivist Architecture, which was curated by Philip Johnson.
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Title: The Simpsons
Released: December 17, 1989
Type: TV
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
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Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
Title: Frank Gehry: The Formative Years
Character: Himself
Released: July 6, 1988
Type: Movie
Narrated by the architect himself, Frank Gehry: The Formative Years explores his long standing career and unique eye. The film looks at a number of Gehry's projects from private homes to complex public institutions, all of which echo his experimental style and vision. Works such as The Norton House, The Aerospace Museum and Loyola Law School demonstrate Gehry's eccentric and distinctive touch. The Formative Years is a survey of his beginnings when Gehry experimented with his own house in Santa Monica, giving him notoriety in the architecture scene.
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Title: CBS News Sunday Morning
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 1979
Type: TV
The sparkling notes of a trumpet fanfare and the familiar logo of the sun alert viewers that it's time for CBS's Sunday morning staple. Journalist Jane Pauley helms the show, taking over hosting duties from Charles Osgood, who spent 22 years on the job. A morning talk show, this program airs at a different pace and focuses much of its attention on the performing arts. After a quick update of the day's news and national weather, correspondents offer longer-length segments on a variety of topics, from architecture to ballet to music to pop culture to politics.
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Kid City
Title: Kid City
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as they attempt a new method of teaching elementary school children in Los Angeles. With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the siblings work together on a pilot program of “design-based learning” that would restructure the typical classroom curriculum, replacing rote math or civics lessons with an imaginary city designed and built entirely by the students themselves. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive.