Building a Home in the 1970s

Textural Spaces: Program IV

Oct. 11 - 6:00 pm

$5 - 10

AIA Portland Center for Architecture
403 NW 11th Ave

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About This Screening

Within the counter-cultural movements of the 1970s, many challenged notions of community and home and promoted alternatives to the very physical structures in which communal activity could take place. Early black-and-white videos from multi-media collectives Videofreex and Ant Farm serve both as do-it-yourself guides to alternative structures (like geodesic domes and "inflatables") and as documents of the artists, their friends, and families who participate both as builders and inhabitants. in contrast is a pair of 16mm works that present two very different types of house construction: from a time-lapse documentary compressing five months into 11 minutes to efficiently show the construction of a northern Vermont house, to a lovingly hand-built home whose residents come from the realm of imagination. This program is part of the 2011 Portland Architecture + Design Festival, presented by the American institute of Architects Portland. Visit adfestivalpdx.com, to learn more.

Program Details

October 11

Building a Dome in Riverbi Earth People's Park
by Videofreex
1970, video, color, sound, 33 min.
The House Construction Home Movie
by Richard Brick
1972, 16mm, color, sound, 11 min.
Dwellings
by Rudolph Burckhardt
1975, 16mm, color, sound, 12 min.
Inflatables Illustrated
by Ant Farm
1971, video, color/b&w, sound, 21 min.