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Detour: The Landscape of Travel on Film
In this three-week series inspired by the exhibition Detour, Ann Hornaday, Washington Post film critic, and Deborah Sorensen, curatorial associate at the Museum, introduce films featuring unexpected and powerful encounters with the natural world. The Museum encourages you to bring food, beverages (sorry, no alcohol) and your own comfortable chair (if you don't want to use one of ours) or blanket to enjoy the film in the splendor of the Great Hall.

Loop (Norway, 2005), with early Norwegian travel films
NR, color, 78 min.
Dir: Sjur Paulsen

Offering spectacular views of Norway, this award-winning documentary follows individuals who go to extreme lengths to climb, base jump or sail away from the everyday. Norwegian language with English subtitles.

Presented with a selection from Snow Clearing on the Railroad to Bergen (Ottar Gladvedt, Norway, 1930)

Special thanks to the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Brynjar Kulset at the Norwegian National Library, Bjørn Sørenssen at the University of Trondheim NTNU, Norway, Goldcrest Films and Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. for their assistance with this program.

Detour: Architecture and Design Along 18 National Tourist Routes in Norway is presented at the National Building Museum in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy.  Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP is the exclusive corporate sponsor.

$5 Member; $5 Student; $10 Non-member. Prepaid registration required. Walk-in registration based on availability. Members Special: $10 for all 3 films!