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E.1027
EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
A FILM by Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub
She built a house for herself.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be a masterpiece.
For Immediate Release – Films We Like is pleased to announce the acquisition of hybrid documentary E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea by Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub.
Irish designer Eileen Gray built a refuge on the Côte d‘Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She named it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, became intrigued and obsessed. He later covered the walls with murals and published photos of them. Gray described these paintings as vandalism and demanded restitution. He ignored her wishes and instead built his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day. This is a story about the power of one woman’s creative expression and a man’s desire to control it.
Running time: 89 minutes
County of origin: Switzerland
Language: French, English
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Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada. Recent releases include Sugarcane, Dance First and Academy Award winning director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist..