July 2009 Archive
Please join director Gary Hustwit for a special one-night screening and discussion, presented in conjunction with AIGA Arizona and IDSA Arizona.
Sunday, August 16, 7pm
Harkin’s Valley Art Theatre
505 South Mill Avenue
Tempe, AZ
Post-film Q&A with Gary Hustwit
Tickets on sale now:
DOOR 7pm – General public $15, students, AIGA, IDSA members $12
Tickets will be available at the door starting at 6pm, cash only.
Tickets are non-transferrable and non-refundable. Questions? Please email tickets[at]objectifiedfilm[dot]com
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Educators, inspire your students this fall with the ideas of some of the world’s most innovative designers by including Objectified in your curriculum. Colleges, libraries, and other cultural institutions can now pre-order the institutional DVD edition, which includes a limited public performance license that allows classroom and library use, and on-campus screenings that are free for students of that school and not advertised to the general public. Institutional DVDs ship October 6, pre-order a copy now.
PS: The Institutional DVD version of Helvetica is available here.
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Our last event in LA sold out quickly, so we’ve organized another special one-night screening and discussion, presented in conjunction with AIGA Los Angeles and IDSA Los Angeles. Director Gary Hustwit will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A.
Wednesday, August 12, 8pm
Laemmle’s Royal Theatre
11523 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles CA, 90025
Post-film Q&A with Gary Hustwit
Tickets on sale now:
DOOR 8pm – General public $20, students, AIGA, IDSA members $15
Advance tickets are no longer available, but tickets will be on sale at the door starting at 7pm, cash only.
Tickets are non-transferrable and non-refundable. Questions? Please email tickets[at]objectifiedfilm[dot]com
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The DVD of Objectified is now available for pre-order! The DVD includes the film plus an hour of bonus interview footage, and a booklet with liner notes by director Gary Hustwit. The DVD is all-region (0) NTSC, with English subtitles. Pre-order from our site you’ll save $5 and receive early shipping (a week before the official September 29 release date) and a free Objectified tote bag designed by Build. These bags will only be available with a limited number of early pre-orders, so get yours now. You’ll receive one bag per DVD ordered.
For the UK and Europe, order here.
For North America and the rest of the world, order here.
For the educational version of the DVD, order here.
A limited-edition version of the DVD will be announced August 10. Objectified will also be available as a digital download through iTunes on September 29, for USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom users. Other digital outlets will be announced soon.
Update: the DVD release date has been changed to October 13. Pre-orders will still receive early shipping, one week before the new release date.
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William Eggleston, Memphis, 1975, dye transfer print, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Catch-up post! The tour continues, although it’s starting to wind down (thank god!). Last week began with two great screenings at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. The Corcoran is currently showing the photography exhibit William Eggleston: Democratic Camera. I’m a big fan of Eggleston’s photos. I saw this same exhibit at the Whitney late last year when I was finishing the film, and was really struck by his photos of people’s objects, just household objects like a vacuum cleaner in a corner, or the objects on someone’s mantle. I realized you could learn so much about a person, or about a moment in history, just by looking at a selection of their objects. The Eggleston photos actually inspired me to approach dozens of people and film objects that had personal meaning to them, and that footage ended up being the montage that ends Objectified.
We had two events in California, in Los Angeles and San Diego. I cannot begin to express my thanks to all the AIGA and IDSA chapters across the country who have been so helpful in organizing a lot of our events. California was no exception, with Josh Higgins in SD and Jill Finley in LA going the extra mile, along with dozens of volunteers. Special thanks as well to the staffs at Laemmle’s Royal Theater in West LA, and everyone at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla.
At the San Diego afterparty with AIGA SD’s Josh Higgins
El Ten Eleven, with live jet accompaniment
The San Diego event was especially cool due to an afterparty at the Subtext gallery, featuring a live set from Objectified soundtrack artists El Ten Eleven. If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me about their music in the film, I’d be at least a few hundred bucks richer. The party was outdoors, and the gallery is located at the base of the runway at San Diego airport, which meant that commercial jets were buzzing a few hundred feet above the band during the set! Fitting, since El Ten Eleven is named after an airplane. The band played a set of Helvetica and Objectified soundtrack faves, plus some new songs. They’re currently on tour in the US, definitely check them out if you can. Thanks to Kristian and Tim for coming down from LA to rock us.
Onward to Korea and a week of events in Seoul!
Cheers,
Gary
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All 13 screenings in Seoul this week are sold out. It looks like there will be another week of screenings added, stay tuned for details. Special thanks to everyone who bought tickets, and to all the event sponsors!
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We’re pleased to announce the Korean Premiere of Objectified, as part of the Design Film Festival 2009, sponsored by the Korean Design Foundation, Designflux, Ahn Graphics, and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
July 23 – 29
Seoul, South Korea
Miro Space
Premiere of Objectified July 23rd, with director Gary Hustwit, then a week of screenings of Objectified and Helvetica. Get tickets or see the screening schedule.
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The LA event this Thursday is completely sold out! Thanks to those who bought tickets, and sorry to those who weren’t able to. We’ll be announcing other LA events soon, so please get on our email list or follow Gary on Twitter for the latest updates.
There are still tickets available for the San Diego show this Friday, but tickets are only available at the door the night of the event, cash only, starting at 6pm. We are not taking RSVP’s, just arrive early. Please do not contact the Museum of Contemporary Art, they are not selling the tickets.
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The scene outside the Grand Teatret
I did a quick trip to Europe last week for three evenings of Objectified in Copenhagen, Munich, and Amsterdam. The Copenhagen event was organized by Simon Roche and our friends at Sweet Talk Copenhagen, who also put on the Helvetica premiere in 2007. Design website Dansk Dynamit co-presented the evening. The weather was perfect, and the pre-show queue turned into an outdoor drinking party.
Sweet Talk’s Simon Roche hauls the PA…
… so DJ Tilde can rock the Copenhagen after-party
The it was on to Munich and a screening at TU-Munich, the big technical university there. Coincidentally it was the same day as Summerfest, the end-of-term party hosted by the school’s architecture program, so there were thousands of students outside drinking beer, eating bratwurst and listening to big band of old German guys.
The screening was held in a classic auditorium at the school, with long, curved wooden desks. Definitely a unique venue, with great atmosphere and a super staff of student A/V volunteers. Thanks to Martin, Philip, Fabricio, Leif, and everyone at IDEO Munich for their help and hospitality, and to Prof. Fritz Frenkler and the staff at TU-M for hosting the screening.
Smart Project Space was our next event locale, on a blisteringly hot Amsterdam day. It’s a fantastic space, a combination of cinema, performance space, art exhibition gallery, restaurant/bar and artists’ studios. And it’s right on one of the canals, so you could pull your boat right up to the dock. If you had a boat, that is. The three sold-out screenings were nice, with special guests Experimental Jetset, and Wim and Judith Crouwel in attendance. Things went so well that it looks like we’ll be returning for a week-long run there in September, stay tuned for details. Thanks to Laurence at Plexi UK and Chris at Smart Project Space for all the help organizing.
Back to the states now, for events next week in Washington DC, Los Angeles and San Diego. Objectified is also playing three nights at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, screening all next week at Cinéma du Parc in Montreal, and opening at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle this Friday.
Cheers!
- Gary
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