SE/FI | 2025 | 58’ / 80' | HD | Swedish, Finnish (to be bought to YLE), English (sub.) | By Nicholas Wakeham | Vy Produktion AB, Solid Entertainment AB, Rethink NMS; Film i Skåne | Initial broadcasters: SVT, YLE
A passionate Swedish sales man of old wallpapers unveils a little-known History of wallpapers and the charms of various patterns.
The History of wallpapers is told through the discovery of the passionate work of a Swedish man rescuing and selling old wallpapers. In a basement beneath the streets of Malmö, Nils Markus Karlsson has spent decades preserving and selling rare vintage wallpapers, some more than 80 years old. The Wallpaper Man is a warm and visually distinctive portrait of a unique individual as well as the discovery of wallpaper in all its aspects.
DK | 2015 | 58’ | HD | Danish, English (sub.), Portuguese (sub.), Spanish (sub.), Arabic (sub.), Chinese (sub.), Japanese (sub.) | By Casper Høyberg,Thomas Mogensen & Malene Vilstrup | Copenhagen Film Company | Broadcasters: DR TV, SVT
The story of the man behind the Danish design classics is the story of the designer, the craftsman, the private person and of post WWII. The unprecedented economic recovery reflected in culture & lifestyle. Børge Mogensen's furniture is now internationally recognised as an artform with refined and timeless details and continues to inspire.
FR | 2015 | 68' | HD | French (sub.), English (sub.) | By François Combin | Urubu Films
Xavier Veilhan, one of the most internationally renowned French visual artistl represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2017. In this documentary, he invests seven emblematic modernist houses in the USA, Russia, Spain & France with striking elegant installations & performances (sculptures, music, lighting effects etc.) where visitors can interact.
Locations: the VDL Research House by Richard Neutra, the Case Study House n°21 by Pierre Koenig and The Sheats-Goldstein Residence by John Lautner (Los Angeles), the Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier (Marseille), The Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay by Paul Virilio and Claude Parent (Nevers), the Melnikov House (Moscow) and the Pavillon Mies van der Rohe (Barcelone).
FR | 2014 | 52' | HD | French, English (sub.), Spanish (sub.), Italian (sub.) | By Marie-Christine Duchalet et Pierre Gadrey | Z'images Productions
Prominent French restaurateurs bring a new and sparkling perspective on their professions. Between exigency and passion, they renovate the furniture, paintings, tapestries, polychrome gilded leathers, taxidermy and stuffed animals of the renowned Maison Mantin, revealing their mysteries and the bourgeois lifestyle of the late nineteenth century.