World Premier: Built on Narrow Land to be shown at Provincetown Film Festival
World Premier: Built on Narrow Land to be shown at Provincetown Film Festival
Malachi Connolly's documentary about Outer Cape modern architecture will have three showings next week in P-town and Wellfleet. The film includes interviews with many people pivotal to the cultural moment which produced the modern houses and who helped shape the National Seashore including: Ruth Hatch, Tom Weidlinger, Ati Gropius Johanson, Bill Burke, Helen Purcell and builder Ernest Rose to name a few.
Details at: www.ptownfilmfest.orgFilm's web site: www.narrowland.org BUILT ON NARROW LAND elegantly looks at a moment in Cape Cod's history when a group of bohemian designers were inspired to build houses that married principles of the Bauhaus to the centuries-old local architecture of seaside New England. Then in 1959, with the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore, the fate of these Wellfleet houses suddenly hung in the balance.The screening times are as follows:Thursday, June 20 at 2pm at Waters Edge--237 Commercial St.Friday, June 21 at 11:30am at Schoolhouse Center--494 Commercial St.Sunday, June 23 at noon at Preservation Hall--335 Main St., Wellfleet
We hope to see you there!