Kenton Vaughan will fly to Sydney to present the Australian premiere of The Museum December 1st 2008 at the Australian Museum.
It's tough running a museum in the 21st century, competing with all the flashy distractions of the digital age. So when William Thorsell assumes command of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, he envisions an iconic public building, a bold gesture that will transform the entire city. Enter celebrity architect Daniel Libeskind, a global brand behind some of the world's most prestigious landmarks, including Ground Zero in New York.
Budgets are blown, egos are trampled, and citizens are outraged. Does Thorsell’s gamble pay off? Is Libeskind flying by the seat of his well-tailored pants? Informed by the current debate on architecture’s role in society, The Museum is a fascinating portrait of visionary men and their daring quest to reinvent public architecture.
“I wasn’t interested in simply making a documentary about the construction of a very unconventional and expensive new building,” explains director Kenton Vaughan. “I really wanted to capture both the personalities and politics that make a complex public project like this so fascinating…it’s a story about the future of our cultural institutions,” he continues. “This is the story of a man and his ambition—for a museum, for a city, and, ultimately, for himself.”
The Museum screens at the Australian Museum on Monday 1 December at 6:30pm, followed by a Q&A with director Kenton Vaughan. Free wine will be served from 6:00pm.
Below is a 4.5 year time lapse of the construction.
Andrea Thiel has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for over 30 years, beginning with the groundbreaking newsmagazine program The Journal with legendary broadcaster Barbara Frum. It was there that Andrea first cut her teeth on documentary making. Since that time she’s made dozens.The job has taken her to Spain during the dispute over turbot which resulted in the impounding of the Spanish ship the Estai; she’s gone to Belgium to talk about the anger there towards General Romeo Dallaire. He was in charge of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda (fictionalized in Shake Hands With The Devil) when the genocide broke out and ten Belgian paratroopers were killed; and of course, the job took her to Afghanistan.
Several of Andrea’s documentaries have won awards. Breaking Point, a four-part documentary about the 1995 Quebec referendum received three Geminis, and Afghanistan Between Hope and Fear has just won a bronze medal at the Columbia film festival.
Andrea will fly to Sydney to present the Australian premiere of Afghanistan Between Hope and Fear at Possible Worlds.
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