Concert of the Wills: Making of Getty Center

Përshkrimi

Filmed over the course of twelve years, Concert of Wills chronicles the conception, construction and completion of the most eagerly anticipated architectural undertaking of this century. The film offers a rare look at a creative process in action, where different aesthetic philosophies meet head on and are passionately defended. The Getty Center, a sprawling, six-building hillside complex, fourteen years in the making, was to be the architectural vision of renowned architect Richard Meier - famous for his grand, minimalist white buildings.

Biografia e Regjisorëve

Born in 1926, Albert Maysles is a pioneer of Direct Cinema and was, along with his late brother David, the first to make nonfiction feature films, where the drama of life unfolds as is without scripts, sets, interviews or narration. Albert made his first film, PSYCHIATRY IN RUSSIA (1955), as he transitioned from psychologist to filmmaker. This year Albert received the National Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama.