Shoot on Site: Architecture in Film Series: THE CONFORMIST & EVA September 13, 2008

Shoot on Site: Architecture in Film

Co-presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer, this eclectic series of films uses pre-existing private and public built environments as spaces of dread, liberation, alienation, or salvation, in concert or in conflict with the architect’s original vision.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 7:30PM
THE CONFORMIST, 1970
A masterpiece of sexual repression and political cowardice shot almost entirely on location in Rome and Paris. The film features Rationalist architect Adalberto Libera’s Palazzo dei Congressi, part of Mussolini’s EUR project, re-cast as an insane asylum.
DIR: Bernardo Bertolucci | 35mm, 110 min

EVA, 1962
A spellbinding example of the director’s ever-attentive eye to the relationship between architecture and character. The classical backdrops of Rome and Venice provide chilly counterpoint as a dissolute writer is lured ever deeper into obsession and self-destruction by a seductive call girl.
DIR: Joseph Losey | 35mm, 103 min

Official Website: http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/programs/52/