‘E1027 Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea,’ About the Pioneering Architect’s Battle With Le Corbusier, Boarded by Rise and Shine (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLise Pedersen Berlin-based Rise and Shine World Sales has picked up the rights for “E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea,” which is vying for the top Dox:Award at Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX, one of Europe’s leading documentary festivals.
Variety is debuting the trailer and poster, below. Mixing archival footage and re-created scenes, this hybrid doc narrated in the first person takes viewers on a journey into the mind of Eileen Gray, a woman making her mark in a man’s world and one of the leading lights of modernist architecture.
It opens in the house that she built in Southern France between 1926 and 1929 together with fellow architect, Jean Badovici, her lover at the time.
The name of the house, E.1027, is a cryptic marriage of their initials. Considered a masterpiece of architecture, built in Gray’s signature sober and elegant style, the house is at the center of the narrative: when he saw it, world-famous architect Le Corbusier, a friend of Badovici, became obsessed with it, eventually covering up its white walls with his own sexually graphic paintings. “He was envious of her artistic vision, of her freedom, he couldn’t stand that a woman would go and build her first house, and that it was a complete masterpiece,” explains Beatrice Minger, who wrote and directed her debut feature film in collaboration with fellow Swiss filmmaker Christoph Schaub, who has made several films about architecture.
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