Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival

16/10/2025

Congratulations to the team behind MAURICE AND I for their nominations at the New Zealand Screen Awards 👏👏

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08/10/2025

💡 Did you know? Landscape architect Laurie Olin transformed some of New York City’s most iconic public spaces. From the beloved Bryant Park, now an open green oasis in Midtown Manhattan, to Columbus Circle, reimagined as a welcoming civic plaza of movement, light, and calm.🌿

Discover the mind behind these spaces in SITTING STILL, screening in Wanaka at Cinema Paradiso on Sat 11 Oct, 4:30pm. Tickets are on sale now!

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📷: theolinstudio.com (© OLIN 2025)

08/10/2025

TONIGHT | Our Mini-Festival in Wanaka kicks off! Join us at Cinema Paradiso for a cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray, a notable design luminary and early pioneer of modernism. Book your tickets now.

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Four films over four days. 9 - 12 October. Don't miss out.

08/10/2025

Join us for the third film in our Mini Festival in Wanaka, SITTING STILL: A Laurie Olin documentary, screening on Saturday 11 October at 4:30pm.

As America’s leading urban designer, Laurie Olin has altered the purpose of modern cities and created some of the most vibrant landscapes in the world.

📍 Cinema Paradiso | 72 Brownston Street
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06/10/2025

🎟️ WIN* TICKETS TO 'WE WENT UP THE HILL' 🎟️ Architecture and gothic horror collide in one of the most striking New Zealand films of the year!

Thanks to Vendetta Films, we’re giving our followers the chance to win* a double pass to see WE WENT UP THE HILL, opening on 9 October. This new ghost story comes from director Samuel Van Grinsven (Sequin in a Blue Room) and stars Dacre Montgomery and Vicky Krieps.

The film was shot in the wintry backcountry of Canterbury at Flock Hill Homestead, a building designed by Warren and Mahoney - the same architecture firm founded by Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney, who were the subjects of the 2024 RADFF hit documentary MAURICE AND I.

In WE WENT UP THE HILL, the homestead's minimalist limestone and timber architecture become the perfect stage for a supernatural chiller like no other.

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Winners announced Thursday 9 October, 2025.

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03/10/2025

💡 Did you know? Rudolf Schindler’s 1922 Schindler House in Los Angeles is considered the birthplace of Southern California Modernism. The house left an indelible mark on residential architecture, introducing the now-iconic idea of indoor–outdoor living.

Discover more about Schindler’s visionary life and work in SCHINDLER SPACE ARCHITECT, screening in Wānaka at Cinema Paradiso on Fri 10 Oct at 7pm. Tickets are now on sale!

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01/10/2025

One week until Wānaka’s first-ever Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival! Don’t miss your chance to experience the best of the best from the 2025 festival. Book your tickets now.

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01/10/2025

ARTHUR ERICKSON: BEAUTY BETWEEN THE LINES delves into the life and work of Arthur Erickson, one of Canada’s greatest architects.

📅 Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines | Sunday 12 October, 4:30pm
📍 Cinema Paradiso | 72 Brownston Street
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There are many films featuring Erickson’s buildings, but very few, if any, address the fact that he was gay and had two partners who significantly influenced his work. Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines is not just a celebration of his architectural contributions but a reflection on the human experience of creativity, ambition, and the price of greatness.

29/09/2025

Four films. Four days. Four stories of architecture, design, and our built world. Don't miss our Mini-Festival at Cinema Paradiso Wanaka - playing 9–12 October! Tickets are on sale now 🎟 paradiso.nz

1. Sitting Still
2. E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
3. Schindler Space Architect
4. Arthur Erickson: The Beauty Between the Lines

26/09/2025

Hailed as a modern-day Olmsted, Laurie Olin has helped transform the design of public space, revitalise the American city, and pave the way for future design leaders. See SITTING STILL this October in Wānaka, book your tickets now!

📅 Saturday 11 October, 4:30pm
📍 Cinema Paradiso | 72 Brownston Street
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This portrait of an artist is told through a prism of issues that have defined Olin’s life and work for the past fifty years: urbanisation and our lost connection to nature, economic marginalisation, and the grave importance of humanity in design.

26/09/2025

💡 Did you know? Eileen Gray’s modernist masterpiece E.1027 was so groundbreaking that it consumed Le Corbusier, who later painted murals on its walls without her permission. Gray called it vandalism, sparking one of architecture’s most infamous disputes.

Go on a cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray in E.1027 - EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA, screening in Wānaka at Cinema Paradiso on Thu 9 Oct at 7pm. Tickets are now on sale!

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📷: Manuel Bougot (Published on Dezeen.com, "Eileen Gray's modernist E-1027 villa revealed in photographs by Manuel Bougot")