E.1027 - EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA - Trailer
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A documentary by Beatrice Minger co-directed by Christoph Schaub Switzerland 2024, 89 minutes, EN/FR She built a house for herself. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a masterpiece. Irish designer Eileen Gray builds a refuge on the Côte d'Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names 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, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He later covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Le Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day. E.1027 is a cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. A story about the power of female expression, and men’s desire to control it. https//:www.riseandshine-berlin.de
E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier.

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