Event: Architecture and Design documentaries at the Newport Beach Film Festival

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The Newport Beach Film Festival, which runs through Friday, April 29, has created an admirable program of documentaries on art, architecture and design. It begins on Saturday, April 24, with a 2:30 p.m. short documentary screening that includes a documentary on Southern California Institute of Architecture founder, Ray Kappe.

At 3:15 p.m, ‘Liquid Stone: Unlocking Gaudi’s Secrets,’ trailer above, examines the still-unfinished Barcelona building by the master of Art Nouveau architecture, Antoni Gaudi. It plays with a 30-minute look at Dutch textile and home decor designer Hella Jongerius. At 6 p.m.: ‘Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of Rural Studio,’ which documents how Alabama architecture students create housing for the impoverished.

The series continues with a doc on urban theorist Daniel Burnham on Monday, films about Palm Springs modernists Donald Wexler and William Krisel on Tuesday and Wednesday and a feature-length documentary on I.M Pei’s last masterpiece, the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar.

For further information, visit the Newport Beach Film Festival website.

See the three-minute (and worth every second) trailer for ‘Journeyman Architect: The Life and Work of Donald Wexler’ after the jump.

--David A. Keeps

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