Jasmax Film Festival tickets selling fast!

Jasmax Film Festival tickets selling fast!

With only a week to go until the beginning of the Jasmax Film Festival, tickets for the outstanding selection of films seem to be more popular than ever.

This year, sponsors Jasmax Architects and NZ Home + Entertaining are pleased to showcase the festival to more of New Zealand than ever before. What began as a festival showing for four days with five sessions and in one city has now expanded to 12 locations throughout New Zealand held over seven days and showing up to 28 sessions; it is now one of New Zealand’s most successful film events.

The festival will run from the 23rd until the 29th of August in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Matakana, Tauranga, Rotorua, Havelock North, Palmerston North, Nelson and Arrowtown.

The popularity of this festival can be put down to the fact that architecture is something that we all interact with on a daily basis - consciously or not - and therefore is something to which everybody can relate. The film The Rural Studio is a perfect example of this type of architecture in action; Auburn University Professor Samuel Mockbee founded the Rural Studio in 1993 in order to change the impression that fine architecture is usually reserved for wealthy patrons or grand civic spaces. His context-based learning philosophy seeks to transcend both race and class.

Fans of Philip Johnson will be pleased to know that due to the film’s popularity two extra sessions have already been scheduled by the organisers. Philip Johnson – Diary of an Eccentric Architect will now also be showing at 1pm on Thursday 23rd of August and 6.30pm on Tuesday 28th of August, replacing the sessions of the John Lautner movie, The Spirit in Architecture which is now unable to be shown.

Jasmax is excited to be able to bring the following films to New Zealand:
- The Rural Studio
- The Concrete Revolution (subtitled)
- Renzo Piano – Piece by Piece
- Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan
- Philip Johnson – Diary of an Eccentric Architect
- A Crude Awakening - Oil Crash
- Antonello and the Architect
- City of Dreams
- Herzog & De Meuron double feature – The Tate Modern and The Alchemy of Building

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