From 1941 to 1978, the husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames brought unique talents to their partnership. He was an architect by training; she was a painter and sculptor. Together they are considered America’s most important and influential designers, whose work helped shape the second half of the 20th century and remains culturally vital and commercially popular today. 

Eames: The Architect and the Painter, insightfully narrated by James Franco, is the first film to be made about Charles and Ray since their deaths—and the only one that peers deeply inside the link between their artistic collaboration and sometimes tortured love for one another. Despite their unrivaled impact on American design, the personas of the steadfastly private Charles and Ray have remained oblique beyond the giddy publicity photos they doled out to inquiring journalists while they were alive.
Director: Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey
2011 / 84 min / Ireland and USA

This feature film will be screened in the Museum's Great Hall. Please note that the Great Hall theater will utilize wireless headsets. To check out your device, you will be required to  leave a credit card or valid driver's license on file with a National Building Museum staff member.

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The Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. is presented by the Revada Foundation, courtesy of the estates of Reva and David Logan.

$12 Museum | $10 Student | $15 Non-member | $125 All Access 

Click here to buy the all-access pass which includes the opening night, reception, and auto-registration to all 27 films.

Tickets can be purchased at the door when available.

Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Image Credit: Still from Eames: The Architect and the Painter by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey, 2011.