Film Screening “Frederick Law Olmsted and the Public Park in America”
Screening: Sat 07 Oct 2017
Hanoi: 10 am
Ca phe Thu bay
3A Ngo Quyen, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
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Ho Chi Minh city: 3 pm
Ca phe Thu bay
19B Pham Ngoc Thach, Ward 6, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City
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Haiphong: 10 am
LightUp
7th, Bac Viet Coffee, 4B Ho Sen street, Le Chan district, Haiphong
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Danang: Sun 08 Oct 2017, 9 am
Room 204, Danang University of Architecture
566 Nui Thanh, Hai Chau district, Danang
From the organizer:
This screening is within this year program themed on “Architecture and Sustainable Development” by Architecture Movies Club.
Last September, the Architecture Film Club has organized the screening of “The vertical farms”, a film on the construction of urban farm “towers” in the future. This is also considered a way to recreate nature in the cities. The film has raised many debates about whether or not to use technological innovations as a primary tool in the recreation of nature.
In Octorber, still revolving around the topic of creations by human in the city, the club will bring about another subject: the parks. As we know, a park is a vital public space in the city, where microclimates and bio-diversities are created which have a good effect on human’s mental health. This is also where human exchanges happen, a place owned by the people, a proof of an equal society. Parks have always been a fundamental criteria of a sustainable city.
“Frederick Law Olmsted and the Public Park in America” by director T.W. Timreck will be screened on 07 Oct, showing the audience the values of a park that many times, we don’t see its effects. However, the primary attraction of the movie is the life story of the first landscape architect of America, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the process of his first project: New York’s Central Park. The film talks about his uncompromising battle in politics and social classes in the American society mid-19th century, when he brought about the idea of an “open” park, which was very new at the time. “Open” for connecting the city with the park, create a grand landscape effect, but also for every social class to benefit from this public space. Many landscape design philosophies by Frederick Law Olmsted are also mentioned in this film – full of artistic creativity, humanity and closeness to nature.
Watch the film’s trailer here:
The film is made in the form of a story-telling movie, but also has the characteristics of a historical documentary. Parts of his romantic life is also included in the film, revealing how they affect the artistic life of a man who designed hundreds of parks in America.
The film will be screened with Vietnamese subtitles
Free entry
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Translated by Hanoi Grapevine.
