RRFF – Frank Lloyd Wright – The Phoenix From the Ashes

See the premiere of this new Documentary.

The documentary tells the moving life of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959), America’s best known architect with hitherto unknown footage. Frank Lloyd Wright was a genius, self-promoter, admired teacher, failed businessman. With the Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater, the house built over a waterfall, he created architectural icons. In 70 years he designed over 1000 buildings of which 500 were realized. In July 2019, eight of these structures have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

“I am the greatest architect who ever lived,” it is said he once boasted.

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility: I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”

He knew no compromise, either in his professional or his private life. Behind this was a sensitive and warm-hearted person, who never bowed to social morals but who sought and found his ethics in nature. For him, a house should appear as if it had grown out of its surroundings. Today we call this Eco-Architecture. Wright is an architectural genius whose life could be a feature film. He survived scandals, murders, fire, divorces, bankruptcies, and social disdain. Time and time again he rose like a phoenix from the ashes. The documentary portrays his life and his works with film footage, photos and conversations with biographers, art historians and the author T.C. Boyle, who lives in a Wright house and wrote a bestseller about the master’s wives (The Women). All interviews were filmed inside Wright buildings. Wright himself speaks to us in interviews from the Fifties, and in quotes from his autobiography. Animations tell scenes from his life with a twinkle in the eyes.