Events

In 1919, Le Corbusier refuses to show his face on a Gaumont Newsreel on the Purism exhibition he led with Amedée Ozenfant. In 1964, one year before his death, he agrees with a film documentary on his life and work. Between those two dates, in the span of his whole career, Le Corbusier tried and assured numerous projects on the realization of film and television documentaries on his work and his person, in order to promote it to the large public. This lecture will discuss the mediation of the work of Le Corbusier by film and television, a rich and unexplored history, that stood until today in the shadow of the studies on his use of photography, books, and magazines, but which measure up to it.