Germany based Rise And Shine World Sales debuted the first look trailer for E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea which world premieres at CPH:DOX 2024 (March 13-24, 2024) in Copenhagen as part of the International Competition program.
Directed by Swiss filmmaker Beatrice Minger and co-directed by Christoph Schaub, the film reconstructs the dramatic story of Eileen Gray and her stunningly beautiful house.
This stylish hybrid documentary about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier also brings to life conflicting undercurrents in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s. The inspiration from design icon Eileen Gray is present in lines, colors and shapes and also serves the narrative of a brilliant female artist who spent a long life in the shadow of her male colleagues.
Rise and Shine´s managing director Stefan Kloos: “Three strong characters and a house: That’s the setting for this fabulous film that stunningly marries documentary and fiction. Eileen Gray was a creative genius and the first woman to conquer the territory of architecture at a time when men controlled it all. The filmmakers take a deep bow to the great designer Eileen Gray – and leave some deep scratches on the monument of iconic modernist architect Le Corbusier. This is a piece of intelligent cinema entertainment that should resonate with buyers in many markets. We are thrilled to be representing it with Rise and Shine World Sales.”
A cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. The Irish designer 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 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 Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day. A story about the power of female expression, and men’s desire to control it.
Watch the first trailer for E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea.