The Designers / 2021

Design for Murder / 1939

When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...

The Design / 1981

Animators and urban planners both create worlds, but Czech stop motion specialist Jiří Barta's ingenious paper cut-out short punctures the stifling architecture of communist housing. Skilled hands blueprint an apartment tower standardized specifications. Envelopes contain the elements of each home. Family dwellings, bachelor pads, scholarly studies and artist studios: different social configurations are permitted but restrained to the same uniform box. A dystopian revision of the REAR WINDOW scenario, THE DESIGN's darkly comic social critique still has teeth.

33 Words About Design / 2019

Film research of design in Russia. Many believe that a specifically Russian approach to design does not exist. But what if they underestimate the influence of culture, history and surrounding reality on the style and aesthetic guidelines of those who shape our visual environment? Natasha Klimchuk, Tim Cherny and Olya Morozova, leaders of the Bang Bang Education online design school, have assembled a company of 33 contemporary Russian designers. Among them are many famous names: Artemy Lebedev, Valery Golyzhenkov, Pokras Lampas, Anton Schneider, Denis Bashev, Oleg Pashchenko. They all speak and think in Russian and are inevitably inspired by what has become part of our everyday life, books, practices, rituals, holidays, economics, historical memory and fashion. With the help of these 33 guides, the almanac will try to find the features and boundaries of our national perception of beauty and look at what ethical and aesthetic values ​​we carry to the world.

Days on Designers / 2016

Geri is a serious drug addict, using designer drugs intravenously. Between two flashes, he lives an active social life on the streets of Budapest, in a subculture that "normal" people cannot see.

Devil Design / 1980

After retreating from battle, a band of Mongolian soldiers take refuge in a cemetery where they are slaughtered by reanimated zombies from the netherworld. But the leader is possessed by the Devil and he levels an assault against a nearby Chinese village. Local monks cover themselves with writings from the sacred scriptures in an attempt to stop the marauding warlord and his ddemon army.

The Designer / 2017

Man is a filmmaker who wants to make films as art. Fighting intensely with his concept, he faces a question ‘Who am I…’ which has bothered him for a long time. Man sets out on his own journey so as to escape from his agony. One day, a woman like an angel appears to him.

Everything Is Beautiful: Lines, Signs, Design / 2005

A documentary focusing on the architecture in Jacques Tati's 1958 film MON ONCLE.

Adrian Frutiger: Typeface Designer / 1998

In his own special field as a designer of typefaces, Adrian Frutiger has left his mark on the second half of the 20th century. His professional peers speak of Frutiger as a living legend. To the general public however he remains unknown, even though every day they may come face to face with his work in one form or another, as lettering for texts, logos and corporate images for the post office, museums and institutions of all kinds, airports and metropolitan railways. Frutiger has never sought fame, only to design typefaces that are efficient and easy on the eye. In designing typefaces he does not attempt to be trendy. Letters are a tool, a vehicle for the transportation of thought.

Erlonghu Designated Driver / 2018

Hao Ge is a generation driver. The biggest dream of being a child is to earn money and wife. Inadvertently he saved the princess of the Kingdom of Freita, and every time he took the things of the princess, he could be a clue for a lot of wealth. The wealthy Hao Ge took his brothers to spend a squander and spent the happiest time of life. However, Hao Ge realized that his dream was only half realized or no daughter-in-law. After experiencing wrestling with the killer, fighting with the brothers, and all kinds of crazy adventures, Hao Ge became a poor man, but he got real happiness in life, he has his own daughter-in-law, Freita Princess of the kingdom.

Grethe Meyer – The Queen of Danish Design / 2022

The story of one of Denmark’s most important designers: perfectionist, pioneer, lover, mother and woman Grethe Meyer. Told through her groundbreaking creations and in cinematic reconstructions.

Alexandre Wollner and the Formation of Modern Design in Brazil / 2005

The works of Alexandre Wollner, pioneer of the profession of graphic designer, determined not only a new direction for Brazilian visual production, but also a personality proper to this art. In his career, he conceived visual identity projects for companies that made him internationally recognized. documentary-book, which includes a DVD with an 85-minute interview, is based on Wollner's testimonies about the history of design, in addition to original projects and documents existing in his office. Wollner was a student in the first class at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Masp , created by Pietro Maria Bardi in 1951. Studied at the pioneering Ulm School, which served as a model for design schools in Brazil.returned to Brazil determined to create a new industrial awareness, leveraged by design.

Diplomatic Designs / 2017

A mouse gets lost in the archives of the league of nations in Geneva. She is going back to time, and discovers the history of this organization, which inspired much of the United Nations organization (UNO).

Christian Dior, Designer of Dreams / 2018

Documentary about Christian Dior's history exposition at the Museé of Arts Décoratifs

Andrée Putman, A Juggernaut of Design / 2023

An icon of French taste, free and eccentric, Andrée Putman (1925–2013) imposed her unique style and shaped a generation of architects. With archival images and personal testimonials, this documentary is a beautiful tribute to one of the leading ladies of interior design.[arte.tv]

Spontaneous Generation, 10 years of Design in Mexico / 2021

"Spontaneous Generation, 10 years of Design in Mexico" is a visual and investigative work that casually recounts the events of the creative environment over 10 years and at the same time generates and answers the viewer, the question: Where do you Are you currently finding Design in Mexico?

King Charles’ Grand Design / 2022

This documentary offers a glimpse into a project King Charles has been working on for more than a decade - the purchase and restoration of Dumfries House, a run-down estate in a deprived part of England.

100 Years Of Design / 2018

Educational project and documentary. The purpose of the almanac is to give a systematic picture of the path that design has taken from the Bauhaus school until 2018.