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Murray Grigor

Murray Grigor

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Biography

William Alexander Murray Grigor OBE (born 1939) is a Scottish film maker, writer, artist and exhibition curator who has served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He has made over 50 films with a focus on arts and architecture documentaries.

Known For

Mackintosh Redux

Mackintosh Redux is a restored version of the original 1968 film Mackintosh, also directed by Murray Grigor. Mackintosh Redux was scanned to 4K from original 35mm preservation materials of the 1968 film Mackintosh held in the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive. It was then re-mastered by the Moving Image Technical and Preservation Manager, Alan Russell. Murray Grigor, the director of the original film, had Frank Spedding’s original score re-recorded by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Rory Boyle at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Although keeping to the main framework of the 1968 film there are now a number of new shots edited in and others that were dropped; subtitles added to inform the music sections and a revised narration assessing mackintosh in the history of architecture.

Mackintosh Redux

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In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel
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Charles Gwathmey has held steadfast to the spirit of modernism in his architecture from the day he successfully built his parents' home in 1967 based on the theories of Le Corbusier and American individualism. Avoiding the nostalgia of fashionable postmodernism throughout the eighties, Gwathmey partnered with Robert Siegel, and their firm continues to create innovative houses, corporate, institutional and university buildings across America. This documentary ranges from the deMenil villa on the dunes of Easthampton to their Guggenheim Museum addition. We hear from such leading architects as Philip Johnson and Peter Eisenman, and from filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who describes how a journey through a Gwathmey Siegel house creates the same sense of drama as a well-made movie.

In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel

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