Archinect - News2024-05-04T04:34:10-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/139113943/a-terrible-enjoyable-bloody-business-the-influential-films-of-charles-and-ray-eames
A “terrible, enjoyable bloody business”: the influential films of Charles and Ray Eames Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2015-10-16T18:40:00-04:00>2019-06-05T13:07:25-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/44/44gk9d9sysovkizz.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>As a new exhibition at the Barbican in London shows, by the mid 1950s [Charles and Ray Eames] were producing films and multimedia presentations that are as much part of their formal and intellectual legacy as their furniture or the glass-walled Eames house itself. [...]
the Eameses never conceived of the hundred or so films they made as movies per se, or even as experimental films. “They’re just attempts to get across an idea,” Charles claimed</p></em><br /><br /><p>Watch a select few of the Eames' "hundred or so" films below:</p>
<p>"House" (1955):</p>
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<p>"Tops" (1969):</p>
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<p>"Powers of 10" (1977):</p>
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