Antonio Gaudi

Speaker: Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Date: March 18, 2010
Venue: Little Theatre, NCPA

Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) designed some of the world’s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. fiery their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Tcshigahara’s ‘Antonio Gaud? takes viLwers on a. tour of Gaudi’s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-untinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject’s organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudi on film