| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
005755 |
| Description |
digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Catherine Hunter Productions in 2016. |
| Summary |
This documentary explores the life and work of Australia's most internationally recognised Architect. The 2002 Pritzker prize winner literally put Australian architecture on the world map. The Prizker jury described him as a modernist, a naturalist, an environmentalist, an economist, a humanist and ecologist. His extraordinary reputation rests on the beauty and integrity of his work. Yet he is an enigma. By choice he has never built outside his own country. He has no staff, and prefers to use pen or pencil and paper to produce his designs rather than a computer. Glenn Murcutt allowed filmmaker Catherine Hunter to follow him for nearly a decade as he undertook a rare public commission, a new mosque for an Islamic community in Melbourne. It is a strikingly contemporary building without minarets or domes, designed to be physically and psychologically inclusive. Hunter documents the growing acceptance of the design, weaving into the narrative the stories behind his most famous houses, interviews with those involved, as well as an intimate portrait of his life and a personal tragedy that almost brought his career to a premature end. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Murcutt, Glenn, 1936-.
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Documentary films.
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Architectural design. -- Drama.
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Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Hunter, Catherine, film director.
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Murcutt, Glenn 1936- subject.
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Catherine Hunter Productions (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
1444871 Kanopy |
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