For Immediate Release

No Festival Required Independent Cinema presents in conjunction with Modern Phoenix Home Tour,

Great Expectations-A Journey through the History of Visionary Architecture-by Jesper Wachtmeister
Sunday, April 10, 2011 1pm Free(ask for movie pass at front desk)
Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central Avenue
Phoenix AZ 85004

Great Expectations is an astonishing journey through innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture projects from the last 100 years, including concrete illusions of grandeur, Lego-like modular apartments and an Instant City Airship to round, grass-covered subterranean dwellings. Using archival and contemporary footage, animation and interviews,Great Expectations tells the fascinating story of these grand architectural visions, both realized and unrealized, as explained by great thinkers with revolutionary, if not always successful, ideas. 

Since the end of the 19th century, due to industrialization and rapid technological progress, mankind has been confronted with new problems and possibilities. Visionary architects and artists, motivated by contemporary problems, including housing shortages, urban decay and pollution, set about to create changes in our ways of living that challenged conventional concepts of the good, the true and the beautiful. 

Introduction by Alison King, founding editor of ModernPhoenix.net and associate professor of design at The Art Institute of Phoenix, in conjunction with Modern Phoenix Home Tour. 

"Astounding images or more or less bizarre projects are intertwined with fantastic interview material... a documentary that treats the viewer seriously." Svenska Dagbladet 

Runtime: 52 minutes.

Steve Weiss
Executive Director, No Festival Required Independent Cinema
602-265-9524 http://www.nofestivalrequired.com
Since 2002, screening thoughtful and provocative moving pictures!