Helmut Jahn: In a Flash and Nathan Eddy Film Retrospective
2013, 2021, Nathan Eddy, USA/Germany, 79 minutes

Join us for the world premiere of Helmut Jahn: In a Flash, a new film from Berlin-based filmmaker and journalist Nathan Eddy. The evening also includes screenings of Eddy's other documentaries focused on the preservation efforts around Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital, Helmut Jahn’s James R. Thompson Center, and Gerd and Magdalena Hänska’s Mäusebunker.  Panel discussion with film director, series partners and audience Q&A to follow film screening. Screening presented by MAS Context and the Goethe-Institut Chicago. 

This screening is part of MODERNISM AS CHARACTER, a three-part series of screenings, conversations, and discussions, featuring Modernist design, buildings, landscapes, allied arts, and ideas organized by Docomomo Chicago and the Gene Siskel Film Center. Special thanks to film series partners MAS Context, Goethe-Institut, Chicago Architecture Center, Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, and Preservation Chicago.