Two Museums
The Heinz Emigholz Collection
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Documentary, 01-Jan-2013
Two museums compared: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built in 1948, and The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, built by Renzo Piano (*1937) 1986. The method of natural lighting in Bickels’s construction was the direct model for Piano, who adopted for his construction at the request of its patroness Dominique de Menil.
Festivals & Awards:
- International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2014
- Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 2014
- Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2014
- Doclisboa International Film Festival Lisboa, 2014
- Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival, 2014
- First Look Festival at Museum of the Moving Image, New York 2015
- National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 2015
- Berkeley Art Museum, 2016
- BDA – Filmforum Bremen, 2018
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