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E.1027 – Eileen Gray And The House By The Sea

Documentary, Switzerland 2024
 

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March 2024

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Architecture, Arts, Feminism, Women Filmmaker
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Documentary, Switzerland 2024
Runtime: 89 min. / 52 min.
Director: Beatrice Minger
Co-director: Christoph Schaub
Production: Das Kollektive für Audiovisuelle Werke / soap factory

 

She built a house for herself.

Unfortunately it turned out to be a masterpiece.

 

Irish designer Eileen Gray builds a refuge on the Côte d’Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He later covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Le Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day.

 

E.1027 is a cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. A story about the power of female expression, and men’s desire to control it.

 

Festivals: CPH:DOX

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