FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NO FESTIVAL REQUIRED PRESENTS

“BUILDING COMMUNITY CINEMA”-BEADLE ARCHITECTURE

TUESDAY, AUGUST 31 2012 7PM (DOORS 6:30)

THE CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAND ROOM

401 West Clarendon, Mid-town Phoenix Arizona

Free Admission-Limited Seating-First Come-First Seated! Food and drink available at Gallo Blanco

Sponsored by Butler Housing/Roosevelt Commons and The Clarendon Hotel

Join No Festival Required at a free screening of the film “Beadle Architecture”. The filmmaker Suzanne Johnson will attend for a Q and A following the screening, and the definitive Beadle Architecture book “Constructions”will be available for sale at a special NFR discounted price!

Directed and produced by Cave Creek film-maker Suzanne Johnson, the video is an homage to the architectural legacy of Alfred N. Beadle V (1927-1998)  whose  “inhabitable sculptures” stand alone in the region in which he chose to live and practice architecture. Beadle’s importance to history and local architectural awareness is next to that of Frank Lloyd Wright here in Arizona.

With interviews with the late Beadle and architects, builders and students who came in contact with Al’s somewhat abrasive and self-assured philosophy, the film confronts Beadle’s challenges against the “Taco Bells” and “Mud Huts” of mass-produced construction.

We are surrounded by the high rise buildings, multiple-family housing and apartment complexes, single family homes and commercial office structures, warehouses and retail buildings created by Al Beadle. The film shows how they were different, and how they changed forever our preconceptions of Southwestern architecture.

The video’s director, Suzanne Johnson, is the Executive Director of Gnosis, Ltd., a non-profit organization dedicated to understanding the artist’s creative process.

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