FILMS: Murray Grigor on Mackintosh, Gwathmey Siegel and St Peter Seminary

Please join us in welcoming filmmaker Murray Grigor, who will be presenting three films:

Film 1:
Mackintosh Redux: 1968 (30mins)
Murray Grigor’s Mackintosh first complemented Andrew McLaren Young’s 1968 Charles Rennie Mackintosh Centenary exhibition. With Eddie McConnell’s photography, Bill Forsyth’s editing and Frank Spedding’s exuberant score, the film won five international awards. The 50-year-old film has been painstakingly digitally remastered by Allan Russell at NLS Moving Image Archive; with the lost score re-recorded by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Rory Boyle at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. By employing subtitles to inform the music sections and a revised narration assessing Mackintosh in the history of architecture.

Film 2:
Space and Light Revisited : 2010 (24mins)
As part of the Venice Biennale: In 1972 filmmaker Murray Grigor celebrated the life of St Peter’s in Space and Light, a near-wordless 24-minute film. In February 2009 he returned to the derelict, graffiti-ridden site with Oscar-nominated cinematographer Seamus McGarvey to film an exact shot-for-shot remake.

Film 3:
In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel: 1995 (45mins)
Charles Gwathmey has been guided by the spirit of modernism in his architecture from the day he successfully built his parents’ home in 1967 based on the theories of Le Corbusier. Avoiding the nostalgia of fashionable postmodernism, Gwathmey and Robert Siegel continue to create innovative buildings across America. We hear from contemporary architects and from filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who describes how a journey through a Gwathmey / Siegel house creates the same sense of drama as a well-made movie.

Date/Time: Friday 15 March, 5:15pm - 7:00pm
Location: Glyn Davis (MSD) B120 (Singapore Theatre)