EAMES: the Architect and the Painter @ Siskel

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Charles Eames has been called "an icon of modernism," and the Eames Chair was selected by Time magazine as "the greatest design of the twentieth century." Long overshadowed have been the contributions of his wife Ray Eames, an accomplished painter and designer whose central importance in the Eames Office's output is revealed here with the aid of previously unseen archival materials, love letters, photographs, and artifacts. "Eventually, everything connects," Charles Eames famously said; and this compact, incisive documentary deftly connects the manifold aspects of the Eameses' extraordinary output: the extended evolution of the Eames chair; the pioneering use of pre-fab houses; the imaginative films including TOCATTA FOR TOY TRAINS and the classroom favorite POWERS OF TEN; the campaigns for IBM, Westinghouse, and other corporate clients; the Moscow multiscreen extravaganza "Glimpses of the USA," and the controversial Bicentennial exhibition.

http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/eams