If you like your nostalgia mixed with anti-consumerism, clear your calendar this Thursday night.
The trailer for the screening of Space, Land and Time: Underground Adventures With Ant Farm promises a bounty of mostly respectable looking elderly gentlemen reflecting with no small amount of pride in their radical architecture firm/art collective, one they claim tried to reshape thinking about society years before counterculture chic events like Burning Man attracted hoards of people to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
The screening at Muvico Centro Ybor is part of Architecture + Film, the second of five events in AIA Tampa Bay’s Discover Design 2011.
Ant Farm, which was founded in San Francisco in 1968, inverted the designer/client dynamic and reached beyond the traditional bounds of architects and their practice.
If the promotional trailer is any indication, expect many talking heads to comment approvingly on Ant Farm’s subversion and explain the parallels between its critique of society and the cultural satire we take for granted today.
The documentary itself, created by Laura Harrison and Elizabeth Federici, appears to have been aesthetically inspired by its subject, making this more of a love letter to the spirit of questioning the status quo.
Discover Design 2011’s Architecture + Film event starts this Thursday at 6 p.m. with a reception, food and cash bar. The film screening follows at 7 p.m. Cost is just 10 bucks to get in. aiatampabay.com. Register for Discover Design 2011 Architecture + Film
This article appears in Oct 6-12, 2011.