The Short Films of Charles and Ray Eames at Metrograph in New York

Sunday, June 05, 2016

The Short Films of Charles and Ray Eames at Metrograph in New York

June 5, 2016: Join Metrograph in New York for a special screening of seven short films by Charles and Ray Eames.

Charles and Ray were prolific filmmakers, making 125 experimental, educational, and just plain entertaining shorts over the course of more than thirty years. This showcase offers a selection of their 35mm films, preserved by the Library of Congress:

_Two Baroque Churches, 11 min., 1955
_Eames Lounge Chair, 2 min., 1956
_Toccata for Toy Trains, 14 min., 1957
_Information Machine, 10 min., 1957
_Day of the Dead, 15 min., 1957
_The Smithsonian Institution, 20 min., 1965
_Powers of Ten, 9 min., 1977

Event Details:
The Short Films of Charles and Ray Eames
Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 1:00 pm
$12.00 – Purchase tickets here.

Metrograph:
No. 7 Ludlow Street
New York NY 10002
212.660.0312

Eamesiana is a project by Andrea Terranova and Raffaela Cardia, italian trends scouts on contemporary design.

"The Eameses created the future we're still living"

metropolismag.com

Charles Eames (1907–78) and Ray Eames (1912–88) gave shape to America's twentieth century. Their lives and work represented the US's defining movements: the West Coast's coming-of-age, the economy's shift from making goods to producing information, and the global expansion of American culture. The Eameses embraced the era's visionary concept of modern design as an agent of social change, elevating it to a national agenda. Their evolution from furniture designers to cultural ambassadors demonstrated their boundless talents and the overlap of their interests with those of their country. In a rare era of shared objectives, the Eameses partnered with the governments (US, India) and the country's top businesses to lead the charge to modernize postwar America.