BUILDING
COMMUNITY CINEMA and
NO FESTIVAL REQUIRED presents a free film event:
“Citizen
Architect: Samuel
Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio”
Thursday,
October 25 2012,
7:00 pm
I.G. Homes Boys
and Girls
Club
1601 W. Sherman
St.
Phoenix AZ
85007
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Sponsored by
Phoenix
Revitalization Corporation and Butler Housing Company
Free admission
(This is the
first screening
of BUILDING COMMUNITY CINEMA season, an ongoing series of films
to be held in
public spaces, with issues common to preservation, protection
and growth of
communities.)
Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee
and the Spirit of
the Rural Studio is
a documentary
film on the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the radical
educational
design/build program known as the Rural Studio.
Hale County,
Alabama is home
to some of the most impoverished communities in the United
States of America.
It is also home to Auburn University’s Rural Studio, one of the
most prolific
and inspirational design-build outreach programs ever
established. Citizen
Architect is a documentary film
chronicling the late Samuel Mockbee, artist, architect, educator
and founder of
the Rural Studio.
Citizen Architect explores Mockbee’s effort to provide students with an
experience that
forever inspires them to consider how they can use their skills
to better their
communities. Revealing the philosophy and heart behind the Rural
Studio, the
documentary is guided by passionate, frank and never-before-seen
interviews
with Mockbee himself.
The film
follows, Jay
Sanders, a young, first-time instructor at the Rural Studio as
he leads a group
of students in the process of crafting a home for their
charismatic client,
Jimmie Lee Matthews. Known within the community as Music Man
because of his
passion for soul music, Jimmie Lee maintains a healthy zeal for
life, blasting R&B
from his vast collection of used stereos and boasting that he
“ain’t never met
a stranger!” Over the course of the project a powerful bond
forms between
Sanders, the students and Music Man.
Citizen Architect supplements Mockbee's words and the students'
experiences with
perspective from other architects and designers who share praise
and criticism
of the Rural Studio, including Peter Eisenman, Michael Rotondi,
Cameron
Sinclair, Steve Badanes and Hank Louis. Their dialogue infuses
the film with a
larger discussion of architecture’s role in issues of poverty,
class, race,
education, social change and citizenship.
The film
follows up with
Music Man, Sanders, his students and other Rural Studio
graduates to see how
the program has affected their lives. Through scenes with
architects such as
Hank Louis of Design/Build Bluff in Utah and Cameron Sinclair of
Architecture
for Humanity, Citizen
Architect
captures the ripple effect that the Rural Studio continues to
have throughout
the profession. Above all else, this film offers a dialogue
about what it means
to be both a successful professional and a responsible member of
society.
--
Steve Weiss
Executive Director, No Festival Required Independent Cinema
602-265-9524 http://www.nofestivalrequired.com
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