Australian architect, Harry Seidler (photo credit: David Moore).
Filming has commenced on Beyond Style: Seidler, a documentary film about architect Harry Seidler, directed by Daryl Dellora for ABC TV.
The Film Art Media doco, produced by Charlotte Seymour and Sue Maslin, Beyond Style: Seidler (55 mins) is the first documentary retrospective of Seidler’s architectural legacy and is an intimate portrait of his extraordinary life and internationally recognised work.
Filming locations will include Melbourne, Sydney, Paris, London and Vienna and featured interviewees include celebrated architects Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, Glenn Murcutt as well as Jorn Utzon, Penelope Seidler and others.
This year marks ten years since the death of Harry Seidler and this documentary aims to deliver a retrospective of Seidler’s architectural vision.
Seidler is acclaimed as one of the greatest modernist architects.
He won every architectural major prize in Australia, is represented in every major city, and was embraced internationally by the likes of Norman Foster (the London Gherkin) in the UK and Frank Gehry (The Guggenheim Bilbao) in the US.
During a career that spanned almost sixty years he worked in New York, Paris, Vienna and Brazil, reshaped Sydney and prompted architects and artists from all over the world to look to his work as an inspiration.
Seidler was no stranger to controversy but is recognised by all as typifying the practice of mid-century modernism in Australia more than any other.
From the moment he arrived in Sydney his private homes were in demand and his uniquely stylised and innovatively engineered tower blocks came to dominate city skylines all over the country.
Film Art Doco is an independent film production company specialising in documentary films for television and on-line digital content for local and international audiences.
The company, driven by the creative team of Sue Maslin and Daryl Dellora is known for blue chip, award-winning productions.
Their awards include Best Documentary Film 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards – Hunt Angels; Gold Plaque Best Arts Documentary Chicago International Television Competition 1999 – The Edge of The Possible; Best Television Current Affairs Media Law Awards 1999 -– Michael Kirby: Don’t Forget The Justice Bit.