E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Official Selection, 2024 CPH:DOX & 2025 FIFA
A cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. The Irish designer builds a refuge on the Côte d'Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it.
Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day.
A story about the power of female expression, and men’s desire to control it.
Beatrice Minger
Beatrice Minger is a director based in Zurich. She studied Film, German Studies and Modern History in Zurich, Berlin and Lausanne. After graduating, she worked as Assistant Director and Script Supervisor on various projects and directs short films and videoclips. In 2018, her art book Hier sass er is published. Her short films Love a Little (2018) and I Feel More Like a Stranger (2021) are screened in international short film festivals. The hybrid cinema documentary E.1027 (2024) is her feature-length debut. Her first feature film, Undercurrents, is currently in development.
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Christoph Schaub
Christoph Schaub was born 1958 in Zurich, Switzerland. He abandoned his German studies to pursue filmmaking as an autodidact. He directs documentary and feature films, many of which won national and international awards. He is best known for Stille Liebe (2001), Jeune homme (2006), Happy New Year (2008) and Giulias Verschwinden (2009).
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