[TASK 070: JEWISH]
In celebration of Hanukkah! There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 600+ Jewish faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.
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THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!
STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!
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Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.
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MASTERLIST!
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June Brown (1927) English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Sephardic Jewish - actress.
Etty Fraser (1931) Brazilian [Polish Jewish, English] - actress.
Eva Wilma (1933) Brazilian [German, Ukrainian Jewish], Argentinian - actress.
Shelley Morrison (1936) Sephardic Jewish (specifically, Spanish Jewish) - actress.
Linda Lavin (1937) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer and actress.
Connie Stevens (1938) 50% Italian (including Sicilian) 25% Irish 25% Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, singer, producer, director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor.
Lainie Kazan (1940) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actress and singer.
Diane von Fürstenberg (1946) Ashkenazi Jewish / Sephardi Jewish - fashion designer.
Peggy Lipton (1946) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and model.
Erika Slezak (1946) Czech/Moravian, Austrian, Ashkenazi Jewish / Dutch - actress.
Marisa Berenson (1947) Ashkenazi Jewish, Swiss-French, Breton, Polish, Italian - actress and model.
Olivia Newton-John (1948) Welsh / Ashkenazi Jewish, German - actress.
Judith Light (1949) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and producer.
Angelyne (1950) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer, actress and model.
Ellen Greene (1951) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Melanie Mayron (1952) Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and director.
Gali Atari (1953) Yemenite Jewish - singer and actress.
Amy Irving (1953) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, along with Welsh, Northern Irish/Scots-Irish, German, Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Shari Belafonte (1954) Afro-Jamaican, Dutch Jewish, Irish, Scottish / African-American - actress, model, writer, and singer. Sh
Gale Anne Hurd (1955) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, 1/16 Mexican - producer.
Karen Finley (1956) Romani, Unspecified Native American, Jewish / Scottish, Irish - musician, poet, and performance artist.
Laura Morante (1956) Italian (including Sicilian), Jewish - actress.
Fran Drescher (1957) Ukrainian Jewish, Romanian Jewish, Russian Jewish - actress.
Joanelle Romero (1957) Chiricahua Apache, Cheyenne / Mescalero Apache, Sephardi Jewish - actress, filmmaker, and recording artist.
Nancy Lee Grahn (1958) German, English / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Talia Balsam (1959) Ashkenazi Jewish, Dutch, English, some German, Italian - actress.
Vivian Kubrick (1960) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Irish, Portuguese, possibly Romani and other - filmmaker and composer.
Sonia Benezra (1960) Moroccan Jewish / Spanish Jewish - actress and radio personality.
Cathryn Michon (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, French, Scottish, Irish, distant German - filmmaker, actress, writer, and comedian.
Gabrielle Carteris (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / Greek - actress.
Timna Brauer (1961) Israeli, Yemenite Jewish - singer.
K.D. Lang (1961) Sioux, Russian Jewish, Icelandic, German, Scottish, Irish, English - singer-songwriter and actress.
Tawny Kitaen (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish - actress and media personality.
Maggie Wheeler (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Gina Belafonte (1961) 62.5% Jewish (Ashkenazi, some Sephardi) 25% Afro-Jamaican 12.5% Irish and Scottish - actress and producer.
Rita Yahan-Farouz (1962) Iranian Jewish - singer and actress.
Gina Gershon (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Paula Abdul (1962) Syrian Jewish / Ukrainian Jewish, Russian Jewish - singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer.
Débora Bloch (1963) Brazilian [Ukrainian Jewish, possibly other] - actress.
Emmanuelle Béart (1963) Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / Belgian [Walloon], Greek - actress.
Etti Ankri (1963) Tunisian Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Cláudia Ohana (1963) Brazilian [Jewish, possibly other] - actress.
Phoebe Cates (1963) ¾ Russian Jewish, ¼ Chinese - actress, singer, and ex model.
Lisa Cholodenko (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish - screenwriter and film director.
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (1964) 25% Sephardi Jewish 37.5% Italian 37.5% French - actress, screenwriter, and film director.
Gloria Reuben (1964) Jamaican (African, Ashkenazi/Sephardi Jewish, likely some English) - singer, actress, and producer.
Mathilda May (1965) Greek Jewish, Turkish Jewish / Swedish - actress.
Rosalinda Serfaty (1965) Venezuelan [Amazigh Moroccan Jewish, possibly other] - actress.
Lesli Kay (1965) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Pamela Adlon(1966) Ashkenazi Jewish / English (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actress, voice actress, screenwriter, and producer.
Lisa Edelstein (1966) Russian Jewish / Polish Jewish - actress and playwright.
Rachel True (1966) African-American / German Jewish - actress and ex model.
Lori Alan (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish - actress and comedian.
Orna Banai (1966) Iranian Jewish - actress and comedian.
Tory Burch (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, possibly other - fashion designer and businessperson.
Gina Bellman (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Laura Silverm (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Lisa Bonet (1967) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Oksana Fandera (1967) Romani, Ukrainian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Meskie Shibru-Sivan (1967) Ethiopian Jewish - actress and singer.
Joely Fisher(1967) 62.5% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% Italian (including Sicilian) 12.5% Irish - actress and singer.
Zehava Ben (1968) Moroccan Jewish - singer.
Rena Sofer (1968) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
D’arcy Wretzky (1968) Ashkenazi Jewish / Scandinavian - musician.
Sophie Okonedo (1968) Nigerian / Polish Jewish, Russian Jewish - actress.
Robin Weigert (1969) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% German - actress.
Rain Pryor (1969) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and comedian.
Amy Landecker (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, German, Scottish, Dutch, Irish - actress.
Shiva Rose (1969) Iranian / Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Welsh - actress, activist, and blogger.
Soledad Villamil (1969) Argentinian [Spanish, Italian / Jewish, possibly other] - actress and singer.
Achinoam Nini (1969) Yemenite Jewish - singer.
Ayelet Zurer (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Alysia Reiner (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and producer.
Monique Gabriela Curnen (1970) Puerto Rican / Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, possibly other - actress.
Gabrielle Anwar (1970) Indian, Austrian Jewish / English - actress.
Aure Atika (1970) Sephardi Jewish / Unknown - actress, writer and director
Liz Cho (1970) Korean / Jewish - tv journalist.
Caron Bernstein (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish / Dutch [including remote Frisian], as well as small amount of French and German - model, actress, singer, and songwriter.
Jennifer Connelly (1970) Irish, Norwegian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Rachel Weisz (1970) Hungarian Jewish, Italian, Austrian Jewish - actress.
Lola Glaudini (1971) Italian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Miriam Shor (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish / Swedish, possibly other - actress.
Rebecca Creskoff (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, German, possibly other - actress.
Winona Ryder (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unspecified Other, likely Belgian - actress.
Michaela Watkins (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and comedian.
Dana International (1972) Yemenite Jewish / Romanian Jewish - singer. - Trans!
Maya Rudolph (1972) African-American / Lithuanian Jewish, Russian Jewish, German Jewish, Hungarian Jewish - actress and singer.
Gillian Vigman (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish / English (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actress.
Jessica Hynes (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh, English, likely Dutch - actress.
Andrea Savage (1973) 3/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/4 Greek - actress, comedian, and writer.
Elsa Lunghini (1973) Sephardi Jewish / Italian - singer and actress.
Tara Strong (1973) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Maggie Siff (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, Swedish - actress/
Carmit Bachar (1974) Israeli Jewish / Indonesian, Chinese, Dutch - singer, dancer, actress, model, and showgirl.
Kidada Jones (1974) Russian Jewish, Latvian Jewish / African-American [West/Central African], with some English, Scottish, Welsh - actress, model, and fashion designer.
Arianne Zucker (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish, other - actress and model.
Alyson Hannigan (1974) Irish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Emmanuelle Chriqui (1975) Moroccan Jewish - actress.
Staci Keanan (1975) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - actress.
Sienna Guillory (1965) Jewish, English, possibly other - actress and model.
Bahar Soomekh (1975) Persian Jewish - actress.
Mayim Bialik (1975) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, writer, neuroscientist.
Melissa Joan Hart (1976) 25% Slovenian 12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% German 50% Irish, possibly other - actress, director, singer and producer.
Elisa Tovati (1976) Russian, Moroccan Jewish - singer, actress, and tv personality.
Rashida Jones (1976) Russian Jewish, Latvian Jewish / African-American [West/Central African], with some English, Scottish, Welsh - actress, writer, singer, and producer.
Natalia Livingston (1976) German, English, Irish, some French, Mexica, Ashkenazi Jewish, Mexican, possibly Swiss-German and German - actress.
Basma Ahmed Sayyed Hassan (1976) Egyptian, Jewish - actress.
Avital Abergel (1977) Moroccan Jewish - actress.
Miri Bohadana (1977) Moroccan Jewish - actress, model, and presenter.
Maya Bouskilla (1977) Moroccan Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - singer.
Shoshana Bean (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, at least 1/16th Irish / Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actress, singer, and songwriter.
Amber Benson (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, possibility other - actress, director, writer, and producer.
Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977) Swedish, German, English / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Noa Tishby (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Jordana Spiro (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish / French, Irish, English - actress.
Becky Griffin (1977) Yemenite Jewish / Irish American - model, TV presenter and actress.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Sarit Hadad (1978) Tunisian Jewish, Mountain Jewish - singer.
Josie Maran (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish / Dutch, French, German - model, actress, and entrepreneur.
Lindsay Hartley (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish / Greek, Italian - actress and singer.
Yael Naim (1978) Sephardi Jewish - singer.
Shiri Appleby (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish / Moroccan, Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Karina Smirnoff (1978) Greek, Russian, Jewish - professional ballroom dancer.
Ayala Ingedashet (1978) Ethiopian Jewish - singer.
Inga Cadranel (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish, Egyptian / Icelandic - actress.
Liraz Charhi (1978) Iranian Jewish - actress.
Fay Wolf (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish / Afro-Antiguan - actress, pianist, singer, songwriter, and professional organizer.
Summer Phoenix (1978) English, along with German, distant French Huguenot / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, model, and designer.
Ayako Fujitani (1979) Mongolian, Russian Jewish, English, German, Dutch / Japanese - actress and writer.
Jenny Mollen (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unknown - actress and writer.
Rakefet Abergel (1979) Moroccan Jewish - actress.
Ricki Noel Lander (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish, Dutch/Frisian / Unknown - actress, designer, entrepreneur, and model.
Mageina Tovah (1979) Norwegian, English, German, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Tiffany Haddish (1979) Eritrean, Ethiopian Jewish / African-American - actress and comedian.
Larusso (1979) Moroccan Jewish / Tunisian Jewish - singer.
Amy Davidson (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unknown - actress.
Natasha Lyonne (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Rachel Lefevre (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / French, Irish - actress.
Nafa Urbach (1980) Javanese / Dutch Jewish, German Jewish - singer, actress, model, and dancer.
Liane Balaban (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish - actress.
Jill Latiano (1980) Italian, English / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, model, dancer, and television personality.
Jazz Smollett (1980) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actress.
D’Arcy Carden (1980) Turkish, Greek / German, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and comedian.
Karen David (1980) Khasi, Chinese / Indian Jewish - actress and singer-songwriter.
Eva Green (1980) Swedish, French, Breton / Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Laura Prepon (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, German - actress.
Lara Pulver (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / English (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actress.
Rachel Bilson (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actress.
Rebecca Naomi Jones (1981) African-American / Jewish - actress.
Isidora Goreshter (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Jessica Alba (1981) Mexican [Spanish, Mayan, Sephardi Jewish] / Danish, Welsh, German, English, Scottish, Irish, French - actress.
Shiri Maimon (1981) Tunisian Jewish, Syrian Jewish, Moroccan Jewish, Greek Jewish - singer, actress, and tv host.
Lesley-Ann Brandt (1981) Cape Coloured [Khoisan, Unspecified East Indian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Dutch, German, Spanish, English] - actress.
Stephanie Beatriz (1981) Colombian [German, ¼ Sephardi Jewish, Dutch, Spanish, Basque, possibly other] / Bolivian [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, Basque, possibly other] - actress.
Moran Atias (1981) Moroccan Jewish - actress and model.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981) Romanian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Greek Jewish / Cuban (mother; who converted to Judaism) - actress and singer.
Melina Matsoukas (1981) Greek Jewish, Polish Jewish / Afro-Jamaican, Afro-Cuban - director.
Alisan Porter (1981) Jewish - actress.
Shiri Maimon (1981) Tunisian Jewish, Greek Jewish, Syrian Jewish - actress.
Meghan Ory (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - actress.
Aya Cash (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian, German, Irish - actress.
Zoe Lister-Jones (1982) English, possibly other (father, who converted to Judaism) / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and film director.
Katie Lowes (1982) Irish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and director.
Jenny Slate (1982) 7/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Sephardi Jewish - actress, comedian, and author.
Jessi Cruickshank (1982) Scottish, English, German / Ashkenazi Jewish- television personality.
Beau Garrett (1982) Belgian Flemish, Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, Irish - actress and model.
Cassidy Freeman (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, Scottish, German - actress and musician.
Cabra Casay (1982) Ethiopian Jewish - singer.
Alison Brie (1982) Scottish, Dutch, English, German, Norwegian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Lily Rabe (1982) 75% mix of German, Irish, Scottish, English, distant Welsh, remote Dutch / 25% mix of Ashkenazi Jewish and more distant Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Ania Bukstein (1982) Russian Jewish - actress.
Iliza Shlesinger (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - comedian.
Shlomit Levi (1983) Yemeni Jewish - singer.
Domino Kirke (1983) Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish - singer.
Daniela Ruah (1983) Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish-Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Mariana Renata (1983) Javanese, Chinese, Italian / French Jewish - model and actress.
Jennifer Landon (1983) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Italian, English, Irish, small amounts of German, Swiss-German, and Scottish - actress.
Lynsey Bartilson (1983) 50% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% Norwegian 12.5% Dutch 12.5% mix of English, Irish, and French - actress, singer, and dancer.
Esti Mamo (1983) Ethiopian Jewish - model and actress.
Stella Schnabel (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish / Belgian - actress.
Julie Berman (1983) English, Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian / likely at least part Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Mila Kunis (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Mélanie Laurent (1983) Polish Jewish, Tunisian Jewish - actress.
Alona Tal (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Marilou Berry (1983) Sephardi Jewish / Croatian, French - actress, film director, and screenwriter.
Rotem Sela (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Lili Mirojnick (1984) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 25% Italian - actress.
Emily Wickersham (1984) English, Swedish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Amanda Setton (1985) Syrian Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Joséphine Jobert (1985) Sephardi Jewish / Martiniquais, Spanish, possibly Chinese - actress and singer.
Ester Rada (1985) Ethiopian Jewish - singer and actress.
Jemima Kirke (1985) Iraqi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish - actress.
Tessanne Chin (1985) Jewish, Afro Jamaican, likely other / Chinese, Cherokee - singer-songwriter.
Juliana Harkavy (1985) Russian Jewish, Hungarian Jewish / Dominican [African, Chinese] - actress.
Michelle Trachtenberg (1985) Russian Jewish, German Jewish - actress.
Molly Ephraim (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish, likely 1/4 French - actress.
Dianna Agron (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Irish, English - actress.
Meaghan Rath (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / Goan Indian - actress.
Becca Tobin (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, possibly other - actress and singer.
Michelle Chamuel (1986) Egyptian Jewish - singer-songwriter.
ZZ Ward (1986) English, possibly other, Hungarian, Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Kali Hawk (1986) African-American, German Jewish, Unspecified Native American - actress, comedian, and model.
Olivia Thirlby (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly English - actress.
Inbar Lavi (1986) Moroccan Jewish / Polish Jewish - actress.
Monica Raymund (1986) Dominican / Ashkenazi Jewish, English - actress.
Kat Dennings (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell (1986) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actress.
Amber Rose Revah (1986) Kenyan, Indian / Polish Jewish - actress.
Hannah Hart (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, possibly other - YouTuber, comedian, author, and actress.
Emmy Rossum (1986) English, Dutch / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Alice Dellal (1987) Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / Brazilian [Portuguese, Spanish, possibly other] - model.
Tori Praver (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian, Norwegian, German, Czech/Bohemian, some Dutch - model and fashion deisgner.
Gemma Arterton (1986) English, as well as 1/16th Jewish (matrilineal), and small amounts of German and Scottish - actress.
Jessica Rothe (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Scottish, English - actress.
Hannah Bronfman (1987) African-American / Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish, German Jewish, English Jewish - DJ and model.
Snooki (1987) Chilean [Romani, Unspecified Middle Eastern, Unspecified South Asian, Unspecified East Asian, Jewish, Andalusian, Iberian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovak, Russian] - reality tv personality.
Rosie Huntington-Whitely (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish, Shepardi Jewish / English - model.
Amelia Rose Blaire (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Ilana Glazer (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish - comedian, writer, and actress
Milana Vayntrub (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, comedian, producer, writer.
Tahounia Rubel (1988) Ethiopian Jewish - model and tv personality.
Tania Raymonde (1988) Russian Jewish, Austrian Jewish / Corsican Italian - actress.
Kathleen Reiter (1988) Moroccan Jewish / Unspecified Other - singer.
Israela Avtau (1988) Ethiopian Jewish - model.
Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, Scottish, French, German, Dutch - actress.
Zoë Kravitz (1988) African-American, Afro-Bahamian, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, singer and model.
Nikki Reed (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish, German / English, Italian, Scottish, Irish, Swiss, Welsh, French - actress.
Margot Bingham (1988) Afro-Jamaican / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Natasha Slayton (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, English - actress and singer.
Lalla Hirayama (1988) Japanese / South African, Jewish - TV Host, actress, dancer and model.
Danielle Haim (1989) Jewish - musician.
Tal Benyerzi (1989) Moroccan Jewish / Yemeni Jewish - singer and dancer.
Nora Arnezeder (1989) Austrian / Sephardi Jewish - actress and singer.
Lily Collins (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, German. - actress, model, and writer.
Hagit Yaso (1989) Ethiopian Jewish - singer.
Ali Cobrin (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian/Sicilian, English, German - actress.
Elle King (1989) 1/4 Galician Jewish, 1/8 Filipino, unspecified amounts English, Scottish - singer-songwriter and actress.
Daisy Lowe (1989) 75% Jewish (Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish) 25% Scottish - model.
Kat Graham (1989) Americo-Liberian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress, singer and dancer.
Marielle Jaffe (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, French, Swiss-French - actress, singer and model.
Rebecca Scheja (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, Swedish - actress and musician.
Bianca Bree (1990) Puerto Rican, Belgian [Flemish], 1/8 Jewish - actress.
Lola Kirke (1990) Iraqi Mizrahi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish - actress and singer-songwriter.
Esti Ginzburg (1990) Ashkenazi Jewish - fashion model.
Hannah Jeter (1990) German, as well as Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, English, and Scottish - model.
Carly Chaikin (1990) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Sarah Ramos (1991) Polish Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish / Filipino, Scottish, German, French, Irish, English - actress.
Dylan Penn (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian, Irish, English, smaller amounts of Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, French, and Irish - model and actress.
Rachel Keller (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Irish, English, Scottish, distant French - actress.
Yityish Titi Aynaw (1991) Ethiopian Jewish - model and Miss Israel 2013.
Sofia Black-D'Elia (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actress.
Alana Haim (1991) Jewish - musician.
Erin Sanders (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Eden Sher (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Demi Lovato (1992) Mexican [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish] / English, Scottish, Irish - singer-songwriter and actress.
Nathalia Ramos (1992) Spanish / Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actress.
Molly Tarlov (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Kim Edri (1992) Moroccan Jewish - beauty pageant titleholder.
Sky Ferreira (1992) Portuguese Brazilian / Ashkenazi Jewish, Cheyenne, Ojibwe, Chippewa Cree, Scottish, French, English, Irish - singer-songwriter, model, and actress.
Emily Warren (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish / Cornish, English, French, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, as well as remote Danish and Swedish - singer.
Shlomit Malka (1993) Moroccan Jewish / Ukranian Jewish - model.
Sierra-Skye Ashkewe (1993) Mohawk, Jewish / Ojibwe - actress.
Mia Goth (1993) English, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish, Brazilian - actress and model.
Shlomit Malka (1993) Moroccan Jewish / Ukrainian Jewish - model.
Hunter King (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly English - actress.
Nikki Yanofsky (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer.
Frankie Cosmos (1994) German Jewish, Russian Jewish, Irish, Chinese, Filipino - singer-songwriter.
Zoey Deutch (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Swiss-German, distant Dutch - actress.
Raquel Castro (1994) Puerto Rican / Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian - actress and singer-songwriter.
Ariane Rinehart (1994) German, Scottish, English, Irish, distant Dutch / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress and singer.
Zoey Deutch (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, English, Scottish, German - actress.
Juliette Goglia (1995) Italian / English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - actor.
Nibar Madar (1995) Jewish - model.
Hailee Steinfeld (1996) Romanian Jewish, Russian Jewish / Boholano Filipino, African-American, English, German, Scottish, Irish - actress and singer.
Madison Iseman (1997) English, Scottish, Irish, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, distant French and Dutch - actor.
Odeya Rush (1997) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Sasha Meneghel (1998) Brazilian [1/2 Jewish, at least 1/16 Italian, Portuguese, likely Polish, possibly other] - model, actress, and professional volleyball player.
Ruby Jerins (1998) Latvian, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Kayla Maisonet (1999) Puerto Rican / Russian Jewish - actress.
Joey King (1999) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly English - actress.
Jazz Jennings (2000) Jewish - youtube/tv personality and spokesmodel. - Trans!
Blanche (2000) Belgian [Walloon] / Ashkenazi Jewish - singer.
Mackenzie Aladjem (2001) Uruguayan Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Kaia Gerber (2001) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Danish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, distant French, Irish, and Welsh - actress and model.
Malina Weissman (2003) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - actress and model.
Serling Jerins (2004) Latvian, Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Jenny Marlowe (?) Algonquin, Mizrahi Jewish, French, Scottish, Cornish, Irish, Welsh, German, Ukrainian - actress.
Fanta Prada (?) Ethiopian Jewish - model.
Amy Correa (?) Guatemalan, Puerto Rican, Japanese, Jewish - actress, singer, and model.
Shani Mashsha (?) Ethiopian Jewish - model.
Michelle St. John (?) Wampanoag, Kalinago, Jewish - actress, singer, and filmmaker.
Malka Ingedashet (?) Ethiopian Jewish - singer.
Andrea Gabriel (?) Ashkenazi Jewish - actress.
Esti Elias (?) Ethiopian Jewish - model.
Yosefa Dahari (?) Yemeni Jewish and Moroccan Jewish - singer.
Shelly Skandrani (?) Israeli / Turkish Jewish, Bulgarian Jewish - actress.
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Roger Corman (1926) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, possibly other - producer, screenwriter, director, entertainment businessperson, and actor.
Harry Belafonte (1927) Sephardi Jewish, Afro-Jamaican / Afro-Jamaican, Irish-Scottish - inger, songwriter, actor, and activist.
Silvio Santos (1930) Brazilian [Sephardi Jewish, Greek, Turkish] - tv host and entrepreneur.
Isaac Bardavid (1931) Brazilian [Turkish Jewish] - actor.
Henri Belolo (1936) Moroccan Jewish - music producer.
Joel Schumacher (1939) German, English, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish - director, screenwriter, and producer.
Neil Sedaka (1939) Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Dan Hedaya (1940) Syrian Jewish - actor.
James L. Brooks (1940) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, producer, and screenwriter.
Jorge Mautner (1941) Brazilian [Austrian Jewish / Yugoslav] - musician, actor, and filmmaker.
Peter Coyote (1941) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actor, writer, director, and narrator.
Mike Medavoy (1941) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer and executive.
Robbie Robertson (1943) Mohawk / Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Isaac Bitton (1947) Moroccan Jewish - musician.
Peter Riegert (1947) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, screenwriter, and film director.
Marc Singer (1948) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, some Scottish, distant German (mother, who likely converted to Judaism) - actor.
Christopher Guest (1948) English, Ashkenazi Jewish, more distant Scottish and Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, writer, director, comedian, composer, and musician.
Robert Lantos (1949) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer.
Victor Garber (1949) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and singer.
Daniel Benzali (1950) Brazilian [Jewish, possibly other] - actor.
Allan Corduner (1950) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Bruce McGill (1950) Irish, English, distant French / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Sylvain Sylvain (1951) Egyptian Jewish - rock guitarist.
Stephen Tobolowsky (1951) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, author, and musician.
Steven Seagal (1952) Mongolian, Russian Jewish, English, Dutch, German - actor and filmmaker.
Dennis Boutsikaris (1952) Greek / Jewish - actor.
Ehud Banai (1953) Iranian Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Richard Anconina (1953) Moroccan Jewish - actor.
Tchéky Karyo (1953) Turkish Jewish / Greek - actor and musician.
Moshe Ivgy (1953) Moroccan Jewish - actor.
Robert Schenkkan (1953) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish / English, Scottish - playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Shimi Tavori (1953) Yemenite Jewish - singer.
David Permut (1954) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer.
Alan Poul (1954) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer and director.
Corbin Bernsen (1954) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, Northern Irish/Scots-Irish, Scottish, distant Welsh - actor and director.
Raoul Trujillo (1955) Apache, Ute, Comanche, Pueblo, Tlaxcaltec, Andalusian Moor, Sephardi Jewish, French - actor.
Zion Golan (1955) Yemeni Jewish - singer.
Haim Moshe (1955) Yemeni Jewish - singer.
Sam Simon (1955) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, producer, and writer.
Haim Moshe (1955) Yemenite Jewish - singer.
Bruce Altman (1955) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Uri Gavriel (1955) Iraqi Jewish - actor.
Hart Bochner (1956) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Walter Salles (1956) Brazilian [Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] - filmmaker.
David Copperfield (1956) Yemenite Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - magician and actor.
Steven Bauer (1956) 23/32 Cuban [Spanish, possibly other], 1/4 German Jewish, 1/32 Italian - actor.
Max Wolf Valerio (1957) Kainai Blackfoot / Sephardi Jewish, Northern European - writer and actor. - Trans!
James McBride (1957) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - writer and musician.
Steve Lukather (1957) 37.5% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% Sephardi Jewish 18.75% Irish 12.5% Swedish 12.5% English 6.25% Scottish - musician.
Jon Gries (1957) Ashkenazi Jewish, some Sephardi Jewish / English, Irish - actor, writer, and director.
Michael Bowen (1957) Welsh / Ashkenazi Jewish, Danish, German, Swiss-German - actor.
Mark Lester (1958) English, Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Lenny Von Dohlen (1958) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Irish, French - actor.
Michael Kors (1959) Swedish, Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish - designer.
Patrick Bruel (1959) Algerian Jewish - singer and actor.
David Duchovny (1960) Ashkenazi Jewish / Scottish - actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter.
Jon Tenney (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / English - actor.
Henry Rollins (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unknown - musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian.
Jon Robin Baitz (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish - playwright, screenwriter, television producer, and actor.
Kevin Spirtas (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Evan Handler (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Dean Devlin (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish / Filipino, some Spanish - filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, television director, and actor.
Billy Wirth (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly Huron and other - actor.
Lee Arenberg (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Yuval Banay (1962) Iranian Jewish - musician.
Carlos Alazraqui (1962) Argentinian [Spanish, Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] - actor.
Don Diamont (1962) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and model.
Shaun Toub (1963) Persian Jewish - actor.
Yishai Levi (1963) Yemeni Jewish - singer.
Rob Schneider (1963) Ashkenazi Jewish / Filipino, English, Scottish - actor, comedian, screenwriter, director.
John Stamos (1963) Greek / Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, Irish - actor and musician.
Brad Silberling (1963) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, possibly other (mother, who converted to Judaism) - director.
Lenny Kravitz (1964) Afro-Bahamian, African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - singer-songwriter and actor.
Hank Azaria (1964) Sephardi Jewish - actor, comedian, and producer.
Michael Cudlitz (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly Irish - actor.
Josh Pais (1964) Sephardi Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, German, Swiss-German (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actor.
Jake Weber (1964) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish, English / Danish, English - actor.
Jorge Drexler (1964) Uruguayan [German Jewish / French, Spanish, Portuguese] - musician and actor.
Adam Shankman (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, producer, dancer, author, actor, and choreographer.
Willie Garson (1964) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Paul Weitz (1965) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% Mexican 12.5% Irish - roducer, director, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
Alessandro Gassmann (1965) German-Italian-Jewish / French - actor.
Emeric Imre (1965) Romani, Polish / Jewish, Hungarian - musician.
Dan Bucatinsky (1965) Argentinian [Polish Jewish / Russian Jewish] - actor.
Yvan Attal (1965) Algerian-French Jewish - actor and director.
Ian Gomez (1965) Puerto Rican / Russian Jewish - actor.
Ben Miller (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish, Welsh, likely English - comedian, actor, and director.
Sean Kanan (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish, German and Irish (maternal grandmother; who likely converted to Judaism) - actor.
Joshua Malina (1966) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Erann DD (1967) Yemeni-Jewish - singer.
David Guetta (1967) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish / Belgian - musician.
Max Casella (1967) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actor.
Lee Unkrich (1967) English, German / Ashkenazi Jewish - director, film editor, and screenwriter.
Abatte Barihun (1967) Ethiopian Jewish - musician.
Ben Shenkman (1968) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Luciano Szafir (1968) Brazilian [Jewish, possibly other] - actor and model.
Danny Nucci (1968) Italian / Sephardi Jewish actor.
Chris Weitz (1969) 75% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% Mexican 12.5% Irish - producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and director.
Noah Baumbach (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish / Unspecified Other (likely English) - filmmaker.
Ben Mendelsohn (1969) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Greek, 1/32 German, unspecified amounts of Scottish, English, Irish - actor.
Peter Salett (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish / Hungarian or Hungarian Ashkenazi Jewish - singer.
Loren Bouchard (1969) French-Canadian / Ashkenazi Jewish - voice actor, animator, composer, writer, producer, and television director.
Darren Aronofsky (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish - filmmaker.
Lior Ashkenazi (1969) Turkish Jewish (Sephardi Jewish) - actor.
Paul Adelstein (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Callie Thorne (1969) Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, English, Welsh, Assyrian, Armenian - actress.
Thomas Jane (1969) Irish, Scottish, possibly more distant German Jewish and Blackfoot - actor.
Richard Speight, Jr. (1970) nglish, German, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
David Treuer (1970) Ojibwe / Austrian Jewish - writer.
Michael Benyaer (1970) Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Mosh Ben-Ari (1970) Yemeni Jewish and Iraqi Jewish - musician, lyricist and composer.
Chris Kattan (1970) Iraqi Jewish, Polish Jewish / Hungarian - actor and comedian.
Zack de la Rocha (1970) 3/4 Mexican [Unspecified African, Sephardi Jewish, Spanish], 1/4 mix of English, French, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch, Swiss - musician.
Oded Fehr (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Kevin Weisman (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Andrew Kosove (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - producer.
Eyal Golan (1971) Moroccan Jewish, Yemenite Jewish - singer.
Sam Houser (1971) English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish - video game producer and developer.
Eyal Golan (1971) Yemeni and Moroccan Jewish - singer.
Will Gluck (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer, screenwriter, songwriter, and composer.
Vincent Elbaz (1971) Moroccan Jewish - actor.
Matt Iseman (1971) Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Danish, English, possibly othe, Czech/Bohemian - comedian, actor, television host, and physician.
Pete Sampras (1971) 3/4 Greek, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish - professional tennis player.
Gad Elmaleh (1971) Moroccan Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - actor and comedian.
Brian Molko (1972) Sephardi Jewish-Italian / Scottish, Irish - musician.
David Charvet (1972) Tunisian Jewish / French or French Jewish - singer, actor, model, and television personality.
Wil Wheaton (1972) English, Irish, Welsh, German, French, 1/8th Sephardi Jewish - actor, writer, and blogger.
Chilly Gonzales (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer and songwriter.
Assaf Cohen (1972) Yemenite, Russian Jewish, and Israeli Jewish - actor.
Sasha Roiz (1973) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Sean Paul (1973) Afro-Jamaican, Chinese, Sephardi Jewish, German, English - singer-songwriter.
Michael Weston (1973) Ashkenazi Jewish, Polish / English, possibly other - actor.
Ed Bassmaster (1973) Puerto Rican / Russian Jewish, Italian - actor and youtuber.
Boris Kodjoe (1973) Krobo Ghanaian / German Jewish - actor and model.
Dan Houser (1973) English, 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish - video game producer and developer.
Eviatar Banai (1973) Iranian Jewish - musician.
David Blaine (1973) Puerto Rican, Italian / Austrian Jewish, Hungarian Jewish, Russian Jewish - magician.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar (1974) Indonesian, Dutch / Dutch Jewish, German - actor and model.
David Moscow (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, French-Canadian, German, Scottish, distant Dutch and Swiss-German - actor, writer, director, producer, and activist.
Yehezkel Lazarov (1974) Uzbekistani Jewish, Bulgarian Jewish - actor and dancer.
Ruben Fleischer (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / Welsh, Ukrainian or Rusyn (mother, who converted to Judaism) - director and producer.
Tomer Sisley (1947) Belarusian-Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, Yemeni Jewish - descent humorist, actor, screenwriter, comedian and film director.
Taika Waititi (1975) Maori, as well as 1/16th French / Ashkenazi Jewish - film director, screenwriter, actor, and comedian.
Shmuel Beru (1975) Ethiopian Jewish - actor, comedian, and director.
Scott Weinger (1975) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, writer and producer.
Raphaël Haroche (1975) Moroccan Jewish, Russian / Argentinian - actor and singer-songwriter.
Shai Fredo (1975) Ethiopian Jewish - actor.
Trevor Engelson (1976) Ashkenazi Jewish - producer.
Jamie Elman (1976) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Jordan Belfi (1976) Italian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Josh Meyers (1976) 31.25% Swedish 25% Ashkenazi Jewish 12.5% Bohemian/Czech 12.5% Croatian 12.5% English 6.25% German - actor and comedian.
Nicholas Stoller (1976) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, film producer, and screenwriter.
Colin Trevorrow (1976) English, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - director and screenwriter.
Oliver Hudson (1976) Italian/Sicilian Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandmother), English, 1/16th German, remote French - actor.
Jojo Smollett (1977) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actor.
Big Jay Oakerson (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - comedian, radio show host, podcaster, and actor.
Jason Reitman (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish / French (mother, who converted to Judaism) - film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Jonathan Togo (1977) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian, Irish, possibly English - actor.
Shane West (1978) Jamaican [English, Sephardi Jewish, distant Scottish] / Cajun [French], distant Spanish - actor and musician.
Jérémie Elkaïm (1978) Moroccan Jewish - actor and filmmaker.
DJ Drama (1978) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Nick Kroll (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, comedian, writer, and producer.
Shane West (1978) Jamaican [English, Spanish Jewish, Portuguese Jewish, distant Scottish] / Cajun [French], distant Spanish - actor and musician.
Elliott Yamin (1978) Iraqi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - singer-songwriter.
E. Kidd Bogart (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - executive, television producer, music publisher, and songwriter.
Eric Ladin (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
David Caspe (1978) Ashkenazi Jewish - writer.
Ben McKenzie (1978) 25% Dutch Jewish (Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardi Jewish) 75% mix of English and some Scottish - actor and producer.
Yehuda Levi (1979) Polish-Jewish, Bulgarian-Jewish - actor and model.
Oscar Isaac (1979) Cuban [Jewish, possibly other] / Guatemalan, French - actor and musician.
Jamie Cullum (1979) Indian, Burmese, possibly some Spanish / English, Ashkenazi Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Gabe Saporta (1979) Uruguayan [Turkish Jewish, Polish Jewish, Austrian Jewish] - musician.
Josh Keaton (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / Peruvian [Quechua, possibly other] - actor.
Nicholas Jarecki (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Scottish, possibly other - film director, producer, and writer.
Brandon Barash (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Subliminal (1979) Persian Jewish / Tunisian Jewish - rapper.
Jonathan Kite (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, comedian, and impressionist.
Mike Zegen (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
William Levy (1980) 3/4 Spanish Cuban, 1/4 Jewish Cuban - actor and model.
Todd Strauss-Schulson (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish - director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and cinematographer.
Morgan Spector (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, possibly other - actor.
Ben Savage (1980) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Sirak M. Sabahat (1981) Ethiopian Jewish - actor.
Nick Valensi (1981) Sephardi Jewish / French - musician.
Harel Moyal (1981) Moroccan Jewish - actor and singer-songwriter.
Mateus Solano (1981) Brazilian [Italian Jewish, possibly other] - actor.
Ben Schwartz (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, comedian, and writer.
Harel Skaat (1981) Yemenite Jewish / Iraqi Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Griff Furst (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Irish, Northern Irish - actor and director.
Zach McGowan (1981) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish - actor.
Eban Hyams (1981) Indian-Jewish - professional basketball player, a writer, producer, actor, model and musician.
Matt Cohen (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Daveed Diggs (1982) African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and rapper.
DJ A-Trak (1982) Russian Jewish, Moroccan Jewish - DJ.
Jack Huston (1982) Iraqi Jewish, Indian Jewish, German Jewish, French Jewish, English, Italian, Scottish, Irish, German, Portuguese - actor.
A-Trak (1982) Moroccan Jewish / Russian Jewish - musician.
Jay Baruchel (1982) Sephardi Jewish, Irish, French, German - actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Alexander DiPersia (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actor.
Adam Pally (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and comedian.
Ari Millen (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Martin Wallström (1983) Swedish, Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Jussie Smollett (1983) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actor and singer.
Daryl Wein (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, possibly other - actor and filmmaker.
Antonio Campos (1983) Brazilian [Portuguese, Sephardi Jewish, possibly other] / Italian, Sicilian - filmmaker.
Ashley Zukerman (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Matt Lanter (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, Polish, English, Austrian, Scottish, German, Irish - actor and model.
Satya Bhabha (1983) Parsi Indian / German Jewish - actor.
Eric Andre (1983) Afro-Haitian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor, comedian, and television host.
Ryan Eggold (1984) German, with a small amount of Austrian, Croatian, Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Scott Clifton (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish / Scottish - actor, singer, songwriter, musician, and video blogger.
Jack Antonoff (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Josh Brener (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Dudu Aharon (1984) Yemenite Jewish - musician.
Anna Nalick (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Scottish, possibly other - singer.
Jon Lee Brody (1984) Korean / Jewish, German - actor.
Jason Davis (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish / Turkish - actor.
Justin Baldoni (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - actor and filmmaker.
Wilson Bethel (1984) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 3/4 English, possibly Welsh - actor.
Amir Haddad (1984) Moroccan Jewish, Tunisian Jewish, Sephardi Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Kyle Newacheck (1984) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 3/4 mix of Welsh, English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, Czech/Bohemian - writer, director, producer, and actor.
Pe’er Tasi (1984) Yemenite Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts (1984) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - director and screenwriter.
Bruno Mars (1985) Filipino [Cebuano, Tagalog, Spanish] / Puerto Rican, Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Tiago Splitter (1985) Brazilian [Ashkenazi Jewish, German, possibly other] - professional basketball player.
Aditya Roy Kapur (1985) Indian / Indian Jewish - actor.
Justin Hurwitz (1985) Ashkenazi Jewish/ Sephardi Jewish - composer and writer.
Max Minghella (1985) Italian / Chinese [Han, possibly other], Parsi Indian, Sephardi Jewish, English, Irish, Swedish - actor.
Alex Pall (1985) Ashkenazi Jewish, English, Serbian or Croatian and/or German - music producer.
Marc Bendavid (1986) Moroccan Jewish / Belgian - actor.
Will Peltz (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Welsh, English - actor and model.
Idan Yaniv (1986) Bukharan Jewish - singer.
Shia LaBeouf (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / Cajun-French - actor, performance artist, and filmmaker.
Karim Kassem (1986) Egyptian / Egyptian Jewish - actor.
Julian Edelman (1986) German, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Greek, unspecified amounts Irish, English, Scottish, Polish, Belgian - NFL player.
Drake (1986) African-American / Latvian Jewish, Russian Jewish - rapper, singer-songwriter, and actor.
George Watsky (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, distant Irish - musician.
Matthew Koma (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly other - musician.
Miles Teller (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Polish, English, possibly distant French - actor and musician.
Tiago Abravanel (1987) Brazilian [Sephardi Jewish, Greek, Turkish] - actor and singer.
Ryan Follese (1987) Jewish, Norwegian, English, Danish, Irish, Scottish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, remote Dutch - musician.
Boaz Ma’uda (1987) Yemenite Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Oliver Cooper (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and comedian.
Karl Glusman (1988) Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, Swedish, German - actor.
Jonas Blue (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish - musician.
Jake Smollett (1989) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actor.
Jesse Rath (1989) Goan Indian / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Melissa Bolona (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish, Croatian, Czech / Peruvian [Spanish, possibly German and Cuban] - actress and model.
Khleo Thomas (1989) Moroccan Jewish / African-American - actor, rapper, and singer.
Shane Haboucha (1990) Iraqi Jewish, Syrian Jewish / Polish Jewish - actor.
Tyler Young (1990) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish / Unknown - actor.
Alok (1991) Brazilian [Israeli, Ukrainian Jewish, Latvian Jewish, possibly other] - DJ and record producer.
Chen Aharoni (1990) Yemeni Jewish - singer and presenter.
Carter Jenkins (1991) Russian Jewish, Belarusian Jewish, Polish Jewish / Irish, English, Scottish, at least 1/8 Cherokee (mother, who converted to Judaism) - actor.
Owen Kline (1991) German Jewish, Russian Jewish, Irish, Chinese, Filipino - actor.
Jamie Follese (1991) Jewish, Norwegian, English, Danish, Irish, Scottish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, remote Dutch - musician.
Imri Ziv (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish - singer and actor.
Logan Lerman (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Ari Stidham (1992) Sephardi Jewish / Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and musician.
Enrique Gil (1992) Filipino [Cebuano, Hiligaynon], Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish - actor and dancer.
Max Schneider (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, English - actor, singer-songwriter, dancer, and model.
Omer Adam (1993) Mountain Jewish / Sephardi Jewish - singer.
Ronen Rubinstein (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Ben Platt (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and singer.
Lauv AKA Ari Leff (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Latvian - musician.
Noah Galvin (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / Irish, Italian - actor.
Ryan Potter (1995) Japanese / Swedish, English, German, Ashkenazi Jewish - actor and martial artist.
Logan Paul (1995) English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, at least 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish - viner, youtuber, and actor.
Derrick Monasterio (1995) Italian, Jamaican [East Indian, Lebanese, Sephardi Jewish, Scottish] / Filipino [Tagalog, Waray], Spanish [Castilian, Valencian], English - actor, dancer, and singer.
Callan McAuliffe (1995) Irish, Sephardi Jewish, English, and Northern Irish - actor.
Josh Ho-Sang (1996) Chilean [Ashkenazi Jewish, Spanish, possibly other] / Afro-Jamaican, Chinese - professional hockey player.
Charlie Rowe (1996) English, Scottish, 1/8 Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8 Greek, 1/16 French, some Manx - actor.
Blake Michael (1996) Ashkenazi Jewish, Hispanic - actor, singer, musician, and model.
Jonah Bobo (1997) Syrian Jewish - actor and comedian.
Bobby Coleman (1997) English, 1/8th Ashkenazi Jewish, 1/8th Irish, 1/16th German, small amounts of Scottish and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - actor.
Leo Howard (1997) Russian Jewish, Austrian Jewish / English, Scottish, Irish - actor.
Cameron Boyce (1999) Afro-Caribbean, African-American / Hungarian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, German Jewish - actor.
Teo Halm (1999) Moroccan Sephardi Jewish, French Sephardi Jewish / Czechoslovakian Ashkenazi Jewish, Ukrainian Ashkenazi Jewish, Russian Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Presley Gerber (1999) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Danish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, distant French, Irish, and Welsh - model.
Griffin Gluck (2000) Japanese, Ashkenazi Jewish / German, English, Scottish, Irish, Polish - actor.
Joshua Rush (2001) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Lucas Jade Zumann (2001) Ashkenazi Jewish / possibly German - actor.
David Mazouz (2001) Sephardi Jewish - actor.
Finn Wolfhard (2002) Jewish, German, French, Irish, Scottish, English, Welsh - actor.
Asher Angel (2002) Ashkenazi Jewish - actor.
Jack Dylan Grazer (2003) 1/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, 3/4 mix of German, Irish, English, likely French - actor.
Noah Schnapp (2004) Ashkenazi Jewish / Moroccan Sephardi Jewish - actor.
dBlackLion / Imanuel Yerday (?) Ethiopian Jewish - singer-songwriter.
Ohad Benchetrit (?) Moroccan Jewish - musician.
Jocqui Smollett (?) African-American, Unspecified Native American, Louisiana Creole, Irish / Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish - actor.
Uri Elman (?) Ethiopian Jewish - rapper (Strong Black Coffee).
Ilek Sahalu (?) Ethiopian Jewish - rapper (Strong Black Coffee).
Jake Weber (?) Danish, English / Moroccan Jewish, English - actor.
Jeremy Cool Habash (?) Ethiopian Jewish - rapper.
Erez Safar (?) American Jewish / Yemenite Jewish - DJ.
Kosha Dillz (?) Sephardi Jewsish - rapper.
NB
Deborah A. Miranda (1961) Esselen, Chumash / Jewish, French - writer - two-spirit.
JD Samson (1978) Jewish - musician - genderqueer.
B Scott (1981) Meherrin, African-American, Jewish, Irish - tv/internet/radio personality - gender non-conforming.
Mykki Blanco (1986) African-American Jewish / Unspecified - rapper and poet - multi-gender.
Problematic
Jerry Seinfeld (1954) Syrian Jewish / Hungarian Jewish - comedian, actor, writer, producer, director - has said “who cares” about racial diversity in Hollywood, that “political correctness is ruining comedy”, dated a 17 year old when he was 39, made rape jokes, called Bill Cosby (recently, so allegations are known) “the best comedian of all time”, and many racist and sexist jokes.
Marc Jacobs (1963) Ashkenazi Jewish - fashion designer - appropriation.
Cassandra Clare (1972) Ashkenazi Jewish - writer - plagiarize.
Neve Campbell (1973) Scottish / Dutch, Sephardi Jewish - actress - supported Roman Polanski.
Alyson Hannigan (1974) Polish Jewish, Russian Jewish / Irish - actress - yellowface.
Ginnifer Goodwin (1978) English / Ashkenazi Jewish - actress - homophobic comments.
Adam Levine (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, German, Scottish - singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor - trivializes stalking and domestic abuse.
Eva Green (1980) Swedish, French, Breton, Sephardi Jewish - actress and model - supported Roman Polanski.
Natalie Portman (1981) Polish Jewish, Romanian Jewish / Austrian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish - actress - zionism.
Gal Gadot (1985) Belarusian Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Austrian Jewish, Czechoslovakian Jewish, German Jewish - actress and model - zionism.
Lea Michele (1986) Italian / Greek Jewish, Turkish Jewish - actress, singer, and author - after trying out for a Puerto Rican role in West Side Story, said she was gutted and cried about how she even learned Spanish for the role, despite her not being Latina she thought she deserved the role due to that.
Charlie Puth (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Hungarian, possibly other - singer-songwriter and producer - some shitty comments when asked about the Ke/sha and D/r Lu/ke situation where he said about how it was sad on both ends because it was meaning he wasn’t getting any new music from either.
Ezra Miller (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Dutch - actor and singer - some shitty comments about seeing the Mi/ke Bro/wn and Dar/ren Wil/son thing from both sides.
Gregg Sulkin (1992) English Ashkenazi Jewish/Sephardi Jewish - dated a minor.
Bex Taylor-Klaus (1994) Ukrainian Jewish, German Jewish, Romanian Jewish, Latvian Jewish, Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Lithuanian Jewish - actress - http://binxrps.tumblr.com/post/164119141821/sooooo-apparently-bex-tylor-klus-is-canceled-bc.
Nat Wolff (1994) Russian Jewish, Polish Jewish, German Jewish / English, German, Scottish, 1/256 Portuguese Azorean, distant Welsh, Jersey/Channel Islander, French - actor and musician - took a Japanese role in Death Note when he is not Japanese.
Nicola Peltz (1995) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Welsh, English - abuse claims and taking a native/Inuit role in Avatar when she is non native.
Jake Paul (1997) English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, German, at least 1/16th Ashkenazi Jewish - viner, youtuber, and actor - racist comments, abuse allegations, and rape jokes.
Bhad Bhabie/Danielle Bregoli (2003) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian - rapper and social media personality - appropriation.
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Architecture
BAUHAUS SPIRIT: 100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS
Directed by Niels Bolbrinker and Thomas Tielsch
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of Walter Gropius' Bauhaus with this lively and wide-ranging exploration of the movement uniting modern design, art, architecture and performing arts with communal social living to form an academic discipline and utopian way of life. Combining free imagination and play with strict structure, Bauhaus' members included Anni Albers, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and more. The most comprehensive film on its subject to date, Bauhaus Spirit explores this influential 20th-century movement's history, legacy, and continued relevance in an age where function and environmental sustainability have taken on new urgency.
DVD (English, German, With English Subtitles, Color) / 2018 / 90 minutes
CONFLUENCE INSTITUTE, THE: RETHINKING ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION (ODILE DECQ)
Odile Decq first came to prominence in 1990 with the completion of Banque Populaire de L'Ouest in Rennes, designed with her late husband and partner Benoit Cornette. In recent years, she has completed the extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (2010), The Phantom Restaurant at the Opera Garnier in Paris (2011), FRAC Bretagne Contemporary Art Museum in Rennes (2012), the renovation of Antti Lovag's bubble house Maison Bernard in France (2016) and Le Cargo office space for tech start-ups in Paris (2016). In 2016, she was awarded the Jane Drew prize for women in architecture.
In this talk, Decq describes setting up her own school of architecture in 2012, the Confluence Institute, housed in a converted railway building in Lyon. With its emphasis on making, the school offers a radical alternative to conventional architectural education.
CD-ROM / 2017 / 17 minutes
CONCRETE LOVE
Director: Maurizius Staerkle Drux
Gottfried Bohm is widely regarded as Germany's preeminent architect. The son of a master builder of churches, he's also the patriarch of a modern architecture dynasty to which his three sons Stephan, Peter and Paul belong. But with the death of Gottfried's wife Elisabeth, also an architect and a key source of inspiration for all the Bohm builders, the family loses its emotional lodestone.
Concrete Love paints an intimate portrait of the complexity and inseparability of life, love and art.
DVD (German with English subtitles) / 2015 / 88 minutes
GRAY MATTERS
Director: Marco Orsini
The documentary Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture.
Making a reputation with her lacquer work in the beginning of the 20th century, Gray became a critically acclaimed and sought-after decorator and designer before reinventing herself as an architect. Her first and most famous building, a modernist villa on the French Riviera called E-1027, was for many years mistakenly credited to her mentor, Le Corbusier. For the most part, her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98 years old) to be rediscovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested, and compelling.
DVD / 2014 / 76 minutes
STRANGE AND FAMILIAR: ARCHITECTURE ON FOGO ISLAND
Director: Marcia Connelly & Katherine Knight
In a rapidly urbanized world, what does the future hold for traditional rural societies? As Fogo Island, a small community off the coast of Newfoundland, struggles to sustain its unique way of life in the face of a collapse of its cod fishing industry, architect Todd Saunders and social entrepreneur Zita Cobb's vision for positive change results in the envisioning, designing and building of strikingly original architecture that will become a catalyst for social change.
Experience this staggeringly beautiful place and how the community and local workers, together with Saunders and Cobb, come together and play a role in this creative process during a time of optimism and uncertain hope. Change is coming to Fogo Island.
DVD / 2014 / 54 minutes
COMMUNICATION VESSELS: AN ARCHITECTURAL PARACOSM (NEIL SPILLER)
Professor Neil Spiller is dean of the school of architecture at Greenwich University. Before moving to Greenwich in September 2010, he was vice-dean at the Bartlett school of architecture, where he founded AVATAR, the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Group.
In this talk, Spiller describes his 14-year long Communicating Vessels project - an architectural paracosm set on an island in Kent. His designs for the island - which include a walled garden in memory of the American theorist Lebbeus Woods - draw on the work of the Surrealists, science fiction and technological advances such as nanotechnology and augmented reality.
CD-ROM / 2013 / 34 minutes
SAGRADA: THE MYSTERY OF CREATION
Director: Stefan Haupt
One of the most iconic structures ever built, Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia is a unique and fascinating architectural project conceived by Antoni Gaudi in the late 19th century. More than 125 years after construction began, the basilica still remains unfinished. Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation celebrates Gaudi's vision and the continuing work of architects as they strive to complete the colossal project while delving into the process of artistic creation in a historical context.
La Sagrada Familia was commissioned by the Order of St Joseph in 1882. After conflicts arose between the Order and the original architect, 31 year old Antoni Gaudi was hired to complete the design. A devout Catholic and architectural prodigy, Gaudi envisioned a place of worship that combined elements of classic French Gothic style and the curvilinear, organic aspects of the budding Art Nouveau school.
Despite decades of delays, thousands of artisans, laborers, and designers have contributed to the ambitious and glorious landmark. Inspired by Gaudi's vision, the film explores our fundamentally human search for the meaning of existence, and the quest for creative expression.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the Catalonian metropolis, the documentary investigates the structural developments of the Sagrada Familia while allowing the audience time to observe, perceive, and reflect upon the historical, artistic and personal significance of the basilica.
DVD (Catalan, Spanish, French, and German with English Subtitles) / 2013 / 90 minutes
SUKKAH CITY
Director: Jason Hutt
When best-selling author Joshua Foer (Moonwalking with Einstein) began to build his first sukkah, a small hut that Jews build and dwell in every fall for the holiday of Sukkot, he wanted to move beyond the generic plywood boxes and canvas tents that have become the unimaginative status quo. He discovered that while the bible outlines the basic parameters for what a sukkah should look like and how it should function, it leaves plenty of room for variation and interpretation. Foers thought, 'what if contemporary architects and designers were challenged to design and construct twelve radical sukkahs? What would they come up with?' And so was born the design competition and exhibition known as "Sukkah City."
Sukkah City chronicles the architecture competition created by bestselling author Joshua Foer and Roger Bennett (Reboot co-founder) that explored the creative potential of the ancient Jewish sukkah and created a temporary exhibition of 12 newly designed sukkahs in the heart of New York City. The film goes behind the scenes of the jury day, the construction, and the exhibition to provide an entertaining and inspiring portrait of the project's visionary architects, planners and structures and celebrates an exciting, singular moment in the American Jewish experience.
DVD / 2013 / 67 minutes
16 ACRES
Director: Richard Hankin
The rebuilding of ground zero is one of the most architecturally, politically, and emotionally complex urban renewal projects in history. The struggle has encompassed eleven years, nineteen government agencies, a dozen projects and over $20 billion. Aside from the engineering challenges, several constituencies-politicians, developers, architects, insurance companies, local residents, and relatives of 9/11 victims-profess a claim to the site and are often in conflict with one another. According to The New York Times, "Where some saw lucrative real estate, others saw a graveyard. Where some saw Rockefeller Center or Lincoln Center or Grand Central Terminal, others saw Gettysburg."
Today, three thousand workers are building four of the tallest skyscrapers in America, a train station, a performing arts center and a sacred memorial and museum. What will emerge in downtown Manhattan will redefine the city and country for generations.
16 Acres is the story of how and why this historic project got built. At the heart of the story is the dramatic tension between noblest intentions, the desire of everyone involved to "get it right," and the politics, hubris, ego, and ideology. As with all great urban projects, from the Pyramids to Rome's Colleseum to Rockefeller Center, a small group of powerful people will dictate the outcome. With inside access to the project and these key players, 16 Acres tells the story behind the headlines.
Featuring Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, Chris Ward (Executive Director of the Port Authority), developer Larry Silverstein, architects Daniel Libeskind, David Childs, and Michael Arad, and relatives and advocates of the 9/11 victims. The also introduces a supporting cast of Pritzker-prize winning international architects and engineers; influential journalists who have covered the rebuilding; construction workers, as well as neighbors, critics and observers who are very much part of the fabric of New York.
DVD / 2012 / 95 minutes
OYLER HOUSE, THE
Director: Mike Dorsey
In 1959, a working-class government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, California, asked world-famous modern architect Richard Neutra to design his modest family home. To Oyler's surprise, Neutra agreed. Thus began an unlikely friendship that would last for the rest of Neutra's life.
Considered the "father of California Modern Architecture," Time Magazine put Richard Neutra on their cover in 1949, ranking him second only to Frank Lloyd Wright among America's greatest architects. The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat explores how a man of his stature came to befriend this modest, small-town family, and his love for the home's stunning desert setting, which Neutra compared to the grandness of the mystical Gobi Desert.
Now owned by the actress Kelly Lynch (Road House, Drugstore Cowboy) and her writer-producer husband Mitch Glazer (Scrooged, Magic City), the post & beam-style home and its exotic surroundings shine through beautiful 5K digital cinematography, and the story comes to life through interviews with Richard Oyler, Kelly Lynch, Neutra's two sons, including modern architect Dion Neutra, and well-known Los Angeles real estate agent Crosby Doe, who has represented homes by some of history's greatest modern architects.
DVD / 2012 / 46 minutes
BIOPHILIC DESIGN: THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIFE
By Stephen R. Kellert and Bill Finnegan
A design revolution that connects buildings to the natural world, buildings where people feel and perform better.
Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature.
The recent trend in green architecture has decreased the environmental impact of the built environment, but it has accomplished little in the way of reconnecting us to the natural world, the missing piece in the puzzle of sustainable development.
Come on a journey from our evolutionary past and the origins of architecture to the world's most celebrated buildings in a search for the architecture of life. Together, we will encounter buildings that connect people and nature--hospitals where patients heal faster, schools where children's test scores are higher, offices where workers are more productive, and communities where people know more of their neighbors and families thrive.
Featured are communities and buildings from Scandinavia, Germany, France and Britain to the Canadian and American northwest, American southwest, and New England. They include: California Academy of Sciences, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Fallingwater, Viaduc des Arts, Google/YouTube Headquarters, Sahlgrenska Hospital (Psychiatric Department), High Point (Seattle Housing Authority), Johnson Wax Building, Sidwell Friends Middle School, Oxford Museum of Natural History, Village Homes (Davis, CA), and Kroon Hall (Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies).
Amongst those interviewed are: Edward O. Wilson, Bill McDonough, Judi Heerwagen, Jason McLennan, Tim Beatley, Bill Browning, Bert Gregory, Kent Bloomer, Claire Cooper Marcus, Michael Taylor, David Orr, Gus Speth, and Richard Louv.
Biophilic Design points the way toward creating healthy and productive habitats for modern humans.
DVD / 2011 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 62 minutes
EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER
Directors: Jason Cohn & Bill Jersey
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America's most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life - from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age - has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: the Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
DVD / 2011 / 82 minutes
HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR. FOSTER?
Director: Norberto Lopez Amado & Carlos Carcas
A portrait of one of the world's premier architects, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? follows Norman Foster's unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. By revealing his origins to how his dreams and influences inspired the design of emblematic projects like the world's largest building and its tallest bridge, Foster offers some striking solutions to humanity's increasing demand on urban centers.
DVD / 2011 / 78 minutes
I.M. PEI: BUILDING CHINA MODERN
Directed by Anne Makepeace
Architect I.M. Pei returns to his home city of Suzhou, China to build a modern museum that complements the architecture of the 2,500 year-old city and sets a course for modern Chinese architecture.
I.M. Pei has been called the most important living modern architect, defining the landscapes of some of the world's greatest cities. A monumental figure in his field and a laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, Pei is the senior statesman of modernism and last surviving link to such great early architects as Le Corbusier, Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe.
Entering into the twilight of his career and well into his eighties when the project began, Pei returns to his ancestral home of Suzhou, China to work on his most personal project to date. He is commissioned to build a modern museum in the city's oldest neighborhood which is populated by classical structures from the Ming and Qing dynasties. For the architect who placed the pyramid at the Louvre, the test to integrate the new with the old is familiar but still difficult. The enormous task is to help advance China architecturally without compromising its heritage. In the end, what began as his greatest challenge and a labor of sentiment, says Pei, ultimately becomes "my biography."
DVD / 2010 / (Grades 10-12, College, Adult) / 53 minutes
GRAND PARIS: THE PRESIDENT AND THE ARCHITECT
By Bregtje van der Haak
Paris was the first truly modern large city. But it has remained largely unchanged since the 1860s.
Now, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has a vision to turn Paris into a model super-metropolis for the 21st century - a post-Kyoto sustainable city of 12 million that will break down the distinction between downtown and suburb, and that will drive France's economic growth. He calls it "Grand Paris" and he is determined that it will be the crown jewel of his legacy.
To realize his vision, Sarkozy's government engages 10 star architects, including France's Djamel Klouche and Roland Castro, Mike Davies from the UK, and Winy Maas, from Holland. Their mission: to spend a year rethinking Paris.
GRAND PARIS offers a compelling and sometimes suspenseful chronicle of the process, as the architects try to distill months of research and discussion into workable plans. It takes us inside some of the world's top architectural firms, as they compete for an opportunity to reshape one of the world's greatest cities.
The film focuses particularly on Winy Maas, whose designs include the Netherlands' pavilion at the 2000 World's Fair, and master plans for an eco-city in Spain and for the Dutch town of Almere.
The challenges he and the other architects face are immense. How can industrial production and the knowledge economy be integrated? Should the city have one center, or be multi-polar? What kinds of transportation hubs are needed? How can residents of city and suburbs - separated physically, economically and by social status - be brought together in solidarity?
Maas begins with aerial and walking tours of the city, and with interviews with people living in the region. The result is a catalog of the seemingly intractable problems that have plagued Paris for well over a century. They include the stark separation between the posh neighborhoods of the city proper and the sprawling suburbs that ring the downtown, a lack of effective public transit, an extreme housing shortage, and neighborhoods that combine old village centres with bland towers of low-cost housing units. According to fellow architect Patrick Celeste, the city is "a mosaic of obstacles."
In addition to the demands of the Grand Paris project, Maas and the other architects in the film waver between being impressed with Sarkozy's vision, and worrying that they are simply being used for political purposes. For French architects the question is a particularly burning one. Are they being courted to truly bring about effective change in the city? Or to burnish the reputation of a leader whose politics many dislike?
Despite the challenges, the Grand Paris architects are imbued with a sense of optimism and possibility. But when the world's economy comes near collapse, the planners must face the possibility that growth can no longer be taken for granted, and that the public may have lost the taste for large-scale projects.
Will Paris be a bold model for future urban development? Or will the problems of the last 150 years drag on for decades to come?
GRAND PARIS can be viewed in conjunction with Paris, Ring Road, an exploration of the changes wrought by the Boulevard Peripherique circling the city; and Paris, 19th century, on the dramatic overhaul of the city led by Baron Haussmann in the 1860s. Together, a triology of films on the dynamic evolution of an iconic global city.
DVD (Color) / 2009 / 50 minutes
RISE OF THE MEDIA ARCHITECT, THE (PETER EISENMAN)
Peter Eisenman, architect, urban planner and author, is principle of Eisenman Architects. In 2005, he completed the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin, and is currently building the City of Culture of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. As well known for his theoretical work as his built projects, he was a member of the New York Five and exponent of Deconstructivism. He is the Louis I. Kahn visiting professor of architecture at Yale.
In this talk, Eisenman explores his current preoccupations. He discusses the impact of the current media culture on architecture and architects; society's declining engagement with the built environment as a result of new communication technologies such as texting and Twitter; the significance of Barack Obama's appointment as America's 44th President; and the importance of writing in the practice of architecture.
CD-ROM / 2009 / 32 minutes
BIRD'S NEST: HERZOG AND DE MEURON IN CHINA
By Christoph Schaub & Michael Schindhelm
Many events for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games took place in the brand new, 100,000-seat National Stadium. Design plans for this massive structure began in 2003, when Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were selected by the Chinese government to design the new stadium, which because of its curved steel-net walls was soon dubbed by locals as the "bird's nest."
BIRD'S NEST chronicles this five-year effort, as well as Herzog and de Meuron's design for a new city district in Jinhua, involving hotels, office and residential buildings. Both projects involved complex and often difficult negotiations and communications between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems. Herzog and de Meuron, the Basle-based architects, find themselves working with China's largest state construction company, Chinese artist and architect Ai Wei Wei, lawyers, and countless government bureaucrats.
The film reveals how Chinese cultural tradition affects both projects, with the architects carefully researching esthetic and philosophical concepts of Chinese society and culture, attempting to define universal qualities of "beauty" and being careful to avoid imposing Western ideas, and above all to create buildings that will blend in culturally by being sensitive to Chinese cultural traditions and ways of living.
In addition to following the progress of both projects, from initial design and groundbreaking, BIRD'S NEST features interviews with Herzog and de Meuron, Chinese architects Ai Wei Wei and Yu Qiu Rong, plus additional commentary by cultural advisor Dr. Uli Sigg, the former Swiss Ambassador to China, Professor Zhi Yin of Beijing's Tsinhua University, and Li Aiqing, Chairman of Beijing State-Owned Assets Management.
In showing the cultural barriers, political pressures, aesthetic concepts, client demands, and budgetary limitations of these major architectural projects-one intended to promote China's international appearance, the other designed to cater to the daily needs of the Chinese people-BIRD'S NEST explores how such international endeavors are helping to develop a "new tradition" in architecture.
"For those of you who aren't yet obsessed with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron-the Swiss architects behind London's Tate Modern, the Barcelona Forum, the de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, Allianz Arena in Munich, and 40 Bond Street in NYC-we think the stadium they've built in Beijing for this summer's Olympic Games might push you over the edge." - Good Magazine
DVD (Color) / 2008 / 88 minutes
BREEDING ARCHITECTURE (FARSHID MOUSSAVI & ALEJANDRO ZAERA-POLO)
The architects Farshid Moussavi (from Iran) and Alejandro Zaera-Polo (from Spain), wife and husband, met at Harvard, but their collaboration only started when working at OMA in Rotterdam. There they began working on competitions. Then they taught at the AA, London. It was there that they won the competition for the Osanbashi Port Terminal building in Yokohama, and that was the beginning of their practice FOA. Many other commissions have followed.
Included here are the BBC Music Centre, White City, London, the S.E. Coastal Park in Barcelona, and a project for the World Trade Center, New York. They are highly inventive designers. No one of their buildings resembles another. To them, style is anathema. They have been exploring ideas of convergence between landscape and infrastructure; and enjoy working with other people in a collaborative situation, where the client is tough and the project grows in discussion.
CD-ROM / 2007 / 23 minutes
FUTURE OF MUD, THE: A TALE OF HOUSES AND LIVES IN DJENNE
Directed by Susan Vogel
Through the story of a mason in Djenne, Komusa Tenapo, and his family, this documentary examines an African tradition of mud architecture in Mali. The environmental genius of these ancient construction techniques - thick walls with tiny windows that keep the interiors cool despite the stifling heat - is expressed in strikingly beautiful designs that have won the town of Djenne designation as a World Heritage site.
THE FUTURE OF MUD reveals Komusa's hand building methods, utilizing sun-dried bricks made of mud from the flood plain which contains decayed fish, and cattle manure that are mixed with organic materials such as straw and rice chaff. The film shows him at work on two building sites, and at the annual repair of the Great Mosque, employing thousand-year-old construction techniques, plus the secret knowledge he inherited from his family of masons, including religious rituals to protect homes and workers from evil spirits.
Komousa, family members and Madame Diallo, a Cultural Heritage official, present information on the history of Malian architecture. The film also shows the annual replastering of Dejenne's Great Mosque, the largest mud brick building in the world, a day-long, boisterous community effort, and a major public celebration observed by local residents and tourists.
DVD (Color) / 2007 / 58 minutes
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE
By Jesper Wachtmeister
GREAT EXPECTATIONS introduces us to the most significant architectural movements and personalities of the 20th century, including, among many others, Le Corbusier's functionalist cities, Buckminster Fuller's lightweight geodesic domes, Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67 prefab apartments, Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum and other anthroposophy buildings in Switzerland, Oscar Niemeyer's sleek urban designs for Brasilia, Paolo Soleri's "archology" of crystal-like desert cities, Antti Lovag's curved surfaces of Palais Bulles in France, Jacque Fresco's utopian Venus Project in Florida, and Peter Cook and Colin Fournier's biomorphic Kunsthaus Graz in Austria.
Using archival and contemporary footage, animation and interviews, GREAT EXPECTATIONS tells the fascinating story of these grand architectural visions, both realized and unrealized, as explained by great thinkers with revolutionary, if not always successful, ideas.
DVD (Color) / 2007 / 52 minutes
EILEEN GRAY: DESIGNER AND ARCHITECT
By Jorg Bundschuh
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was always ahead of her time. Thirty years after her death, she is still considered as the very essence of the Modern. Everyone has seen her furniture-including the famous Adjustable Table, the Lota Sofa, and the Tube Light-but most people don't really know the designer and architect who created them.
Born to an aristocratic family of Irish-Scottish heritage, Gray studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London before moving to Paris in 1902 where she continued her studies and, in a revolt against prevailing art nouveau conventions, mastered lacquer work and established the Galerie Jean Desert, where she sold her avant-garde, luxury furniture pieces intended both to fulfill a function and to inspire the spirit.
EILEEN GRAY-DESIGNER AND ARCHITECT also examines the history of her architectural creations, including E.1027, one of the most famous houses in architectural history, built in Roquebrune, France, in 1926. This modernist seaside villa-an L-shaped, flat-roofed building with floor-to-ceiling windows and a spiral staircase, utilizing natural light and ventilation-was designed, said Gray, for a "minimum of space and maximum of comfort." E.1027 has today been declared a French national monument and is presently being restored.
Using archival footage, excerpts from Gray's own writings, plus interviews with Jennifer Goff, Curator of the National Museum of Ireland, which houses a permanent Gray exhibition, Philippe Garner of Christie's auction house, and Zeev Aram, Chairman of Aram Designs in London, who today produces reproductions of Gray's furniture, EILEEN GRAY chronicles this resolutely independent designer's artistic formation and bohemian lifestyle, her extensive travels and influences, the development of her distinctive designs, and her relations with fellow artists and architects such as Jean Badovici, Seizo Sugawara and Le Corbusier.
DVD (Color) / 2006 / 52 minutes
ABORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE: LIVING ARCHITECTURE
Directed by Paul M. Rickard
New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
ABORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE LIVING ARCHITECTURE offers a fascinating in-depth look into the diversity of North American Native architecture. Featuring expert commentary and stunning imagery, this program provides a virtual tour of seven Aboriginal communities -- Pueblo, Mohawk, Inuit, Crow, Navajo, Coast Salish and Haida -- revealing how each is actively reinterpreting and adapting traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
Everyone is familiar with certain types of Aboriginal architecture. Traditional igloos and teepees are two of the most enduring symbols of North America itself. But how much do we really know about the types of structures Native Peoples designed, engineered, and built?
For more than three hundred years, Native communities in North America have had virtually no indigenous architecture. Communities have made do with low-cost government housing and community projects designed by strangers in far away places.
Thankfully, across the continent, political, financial, and cultural changes have created a renaissance of Native design. Modern Aboriginal architects are turning to ancient forms, adapting them in response to changes in the natural and social environment, and creating contemporary structures that hearken to the past.
Employing old and new materials and techniques and with an emphasis on harmony and balance, Native designers are successfully melding current community needs with tradition. The resulting buildings are testaments to the enduring strength and ingenuity of Aboriginal design.
DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2005 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 93 minutes
REGULAR OR SUPER: VIEWS ON MIES VAN DER ROHE
By Joseph Hillel & Patrick Demers
In 1967, at the end of a career spanning more than six decades, which included the design of the Seagram Building in New York, the Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings in Chicago, and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, architect Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) designed a simple gas station near Montreal. The story of that gas station serves as the point of departure for REGULAR OR SUPER, which examines Mies' entire body of work (more than 70 buildings) and a sparse style that reflects his motto that "less is more."
Mies began his architectural career in Germany early in the 20th century and during the Thirties taught at the famed Bauhaus School of Art and Design in Berlin. In 1938, after the school was shut down by the Nazis, Mies emigrated to Chicago where he designed 22 buildings for the Illinois Institute of Technology. Over the next three decades, in a radical break from the predominant beaux arts style, he refined a distinctive, modernist architectural style emphasizing glass and steel in a variety of buildings whose structures creatively integrated surrounding public space.
Featuring stylish cinematography and an evocative jazz score, REGULAR OR SUPER illustrates many of Mies' classic buildings, combining these striking facades with observations from some architecture superstars, including Rem Koolhaas, Elizabeth Diller and Phyllis Lambert, which are interlaced with anecdotes from customers and neighbors of the gas station, plus comments from his biographer and family members.
REGULAR OR SUPER is a fascinating and informative introduction to the work of one of the 20th century's most influential architects and a thought-provoking demonstration of the social and artistic contributions that architecture at its best can make to our urban environments.
DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2004 / 57 minutes
KOCHUU: JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE / INFLUENCE & ORIGIN
By Jesper Wachtmeister
KOCHUU is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts, nature and concrete, gardens and high-tech spaces, the film explains how contemporary Japanese architects strive to unite the ways of modern man with the old philosophies in astounding constructions.
KOCHUU, which translates as "in the jar," refers to the Japanese tradition of constructing small, enclosed physical spaces, which create the impression of a separate universe. The film illustrates key components of traditional Japanese architecture, such as reducing the distinction between outdoors and indoors, disrupting the symmetrical, building with wooden posts and beams rather than with walls, modular construction techniques, and its symbiotic relationship with water, light and nature.
The film illustrates these concepts through remarkable views of the Imperial Katsura Palace, the Todai-Ji Temple, the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, the Sony Tower, numerous teahouses and gardens (see link below for complete list), as well as examples of the cross-fertilization evidenced in buildings throughout Scandinavia, and shows how 'invisible' Japanese traditions are evident even in modern, high-tech buildings.
KOCHUU also features interviews with some of Japan's leading architects as well as Scandinavian contemporaries including Pritzker Prize winners Tadao Ando and Sverre Fehn, Toyo Ito, Kazuo Shinohara, Kristian Gullichsen and Juhani Pallasmaa (see link below for complete list and bios).
KOCHUU is a compelling illustration of how the aesthetics of Japanese architecture and design are expressed through simple means, and also shows that the best Japanese architecture, wherever it appears, expresses spiritual qualities that enrich human life.
DVD (Color) / 2003 / 53 minutes
LAGOS / KOOLHAAS
Written and Directed by Bregtje van der Haak
Lagos' population is expected to reach 24 million people by 2020, which would make it the third largest city in the world. Every hour, 21 new inhabitants set out to start a life in the city, a life that is highly unpredictable and requires risk taking, networking and improvisation as essential strategies for survival.
Rem Koolhaas - winner of architecture's Nobel, the Pritzker Architecture Prize - is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard. For the past four years Koolhaas and students from The Harvard Project on the City have come to Lagos regularly to research the type of urban environment that is produced by explosive population growth. The Project on the City is framed by two concepts: academia's bewilderment with new forms of accelerated urbanization in developing regions and the maelstrom of redevelopment in existing urban areas; and, second, the failure of the design professions to adequately cope with these changes.
LAGOS / KOOLHAAS follows Koolhaas during his research in Lagos over a period of two years as he wanders through the city, talking with people and recognizing the problems with water, electricity and traffic. But instead of judging the city to be doomed, he is able to interpret this 'culture of congestion' positively, thereby creating a completely new concept of the big city.
For example, in most North American cities we grumble about the traffic and turn up the CD. In Lagos, traffic jams are such an overwhelming feature of the city that they have become a key marketplace. When the cars stop, the trading begins. Or, as Koolhaas's report puts it, "the ubiquitous traffic jam: lulled in congestion, captive to the road's breadth, and thriving with entrepreneurial activity."
For Koolhaas, the key to understanding a city such as Lagos is the realization that it is not the controllable result of Western planning. The city should be seen as an anarchic organism in which the enterprise of the inhabitants turns any apparent disadvantage into an advantage: "Anguish over the city's shortcomings in traditional urban systems obscures the reasons for the continued, exuberant existence of Lagos and other megacities like it. These shortcomings have generated ingenious, critical alternative systems."
DVD (Color) / 2002 / 55 minutes
IN TUNE WITH ARCHITECTS (JANE WERNICK)
The structural engineer, Jane Wernick, was with Ove Arup & Partners off and on from 1976 until she set up her own practice in 1998 in London.
She has worked with top architects - Foster, Rogers, Chipperfield, Wilkinson - and in her recorded talk she describes her contributions to projects with Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid and, above all, David Marks and Julia Barfield with whom she helped to design the "London Eye" Millennium Wheel.
She says that what she really enjoyed was "the process of collaboration, that is, trying to understand what the different architects' intentions are, and being allowed to contribute and toss my ideas into the pot right from the beginning".
CD-ROM / 2001 / 45 minutes
NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE
William McDonough, Michael Braungart & the Birth of the Sustainable Economy
Architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design.
While some environmental observers predict doomsday scenarios in which a rapidly increasing human population is forced to compete for ever scarcer natural resources, Bill McDonough sees a more exciting and hopeful future.
In his vision humanity takes nature itself as our guide reinventing technical enterprises to be as safe and ever-renewing as natural processes.
Can't happen? It's already happening...at Nike, at Ford Motor Company, at Oberlin College, at Herman Miller Furniture, and at DesignTex...and it's part of what architect McDonough and his partner, chemist Michael Braungart, call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.'
Shot in Europe and the United States, the film explores how businesses are transforming themselves to work with nature and enhance profitability.
DVD (Color) / 2001 / (Grades 7-12, College, Adult) / 55 minutes
IN THE MIND OF THE ARCHITECT
Directed by Tim Clark
From the Modernist ideas of Europe and North America, through the eccentricity of Postmodernism, and to the importance of climate and place, this 3-part series from Australia is an investigation into the eclectic world of architects and their creations.
Featuring buildings that are striking, controversial or simply beautiful, and concentrating on the views and motivations of award-winning architects, including Harry Seidler, Richard Leplastrier, Paul Katsieris, Peter Corrigan, Bernard Seeber, Phillip Cox, Sean Godsell and many others, IN THE MIND OF THE ARCHITECT explores connections between architecture and the human condition, and discusses the brutal politics of building structures.
Part 1, KEEPING THE FAITH explores the relationship between architect and client, including projects where the designer is the client. Looking at houses they design for themselves, for government and for big business, Part 1 also examines the fight between those who prefer innovation, and those who want 'nice', conservative buildings. Is it the architect's responsibility to give us what we want, or to lead us where we haven't been before?
Part 2, THE PUBLIC GOOD: With capital on the move from public to private spending, architects must straddle both worlds and balance the desires of business clients with the obligation to the public good. Cities are the battleground, driven by pressure for commercial development. So who makes the decision? Who cares about the public good with respect to large commercial developments? THE PUBLIC GOOD looks at these and other issues surrounding public development.
Part 3, CORRUGATED DREAMS: The potential of architecture is to enable things to happen - to enhance, not restrict. What gives an architect the confidence to build a great building? Is it a good site, tolerant neighbors, or a gifted contractor? Or is the most important factor a brave client with lots of money? From seemingly hopeless suburbs to a downtown hotel, CORRUGATED DREAMS visits the artistic possibilities of architecture, within the practical context of the 21st Century consumer's needs.
Ultimately IN THE MIND OF THE ARCHITECT explains the process we call architecture - its philosophy and its essential relationship with people.
3 DVDs (Color) / 2000 / 165 minutes
SHIGERU BAN: AN ARCHITECT FOR EMERGENCIES
By Michel Quinejure
The award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is noted for his use of inexpensive construction materials such as paperboard and cardboard tubes. While his designs for DIY prefab housing have been adopted by the UN High Commission for Refugees to house earthquake victims in Turkey and Rwanda, Ban has also used these lightweight but sturdy and relatively inexpensive materials to create breathtakingly beautiful homes, pavilions and churches.
SHIGERU BAN features extensive interviews with this innovative young architect (b. 1957), who explains the practical, philosophical and esthetic aspects of his work. In addition to his conservationist interest in using recycled materials, Ban discusses his influences, his concerns with the bidimensional and tridimensional nature of his buildings, his aim to incorporate structural elements into the overall designs, as well as their sensitivity to light and shade, which lends unusual vitality to his buildings.
The film shows the construction of Ban's prefab designs¡Xutilizing cardboard tubes, beer cases and plastic-sheet roofs¡Xfor temporary but surprisingly attractive housing for earthquake victims in Turkey. SHIGERU BAN also provides stunning views of many of Ban's major buildings, whose design concepts he explains in voice-over commentary, including the massive Japanese Pavilion for the 2000 Exposition in Hanover, Germany; the Paper Dome in Gero, Japan; the House with Double Roof in Yamanaka Lake, Japan; the Miyake Design Studio Gallery, the Hanegi Forest Home and the Ivy Structure 2 in Tokyo; the GC Building in Osaka; the Paper Church in Kobe; and the 9 Square Grids House in Hadano.
In showcasing the designs of one of the most innovative architects at work today, SHIGERU BAN reveals that an emphasis on issues of conservation, economy, and accessibility does not necessarily involve a sacrifice in architectural beauty.
DVD (Color) / 2000 / 52 minutes
RENZO PIANO: WORK IN PROGRESS
By Marc Petitjean
Renzo Piano, the world-renowned independent and non-conformist architect (b. 1937 in Genoa), owes his fame in part to the vast scope of his work. From the Pompidou Center in Paris to the recently inaugurated Centre Jean-Marie Tjibaou in New Caledonia, and from the De Menil Museum in Houston and the Kansai International Airport Terminal in Japan to the New York Times tower in Manhattan and the San Nicola Stadium in Italy, Renzo Piano constructions are found throughout the world.
By following three projects at different stages of progress-including the Padre Pio liturgical center and the Nola Cultural & Commercial Center in Italy, the first discussions about the Paul Klee Museum in Bern, and the opening of the reconstructed Potsdam Square in Berlin-RENZO PIANO examines the artistic philosophy of Piano and the working methods of his Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
Jetting from one architect design workshop to another, and from one worksite to another, we see how Piano stays true to the artisan approach that underlies his initial creations, and his efforts to find answers to the specific problems of these projects in terms of the history and geography of the construction locales, their function and the financial context.
Throughout the film, during work sessions and consultations, and in voice-over commentary, Piano explains his views of architecture as a "contaminated art," one in which the artist must contend with such issues as people in power, time, schedule, and technical problems. He believes that architecture should not be a socially isolated practice but one that coexists with other disciplines such as science, technology, sociology, and anthropology. On a more spiritual level, he describes architecture as the "construction of emotions with space," whereby buildings should become a focus for social encounters, offering the public an opportunity for contemplation, silence, and dialogue.
As a revealing personal and professional portrait, RENZO PIANO brings together many of his closest collaborators-architects, engineers, and maquette-makers-to create a "real-life" portrait of an architect who sees his profession as a living thing, evolving with time and practice.
DVD (Color) / 1999 / 52 minutes
SANTIAGO CALATRAVA'S TRAVELS
By Christoph Schaub
Widely recognized as the greatest living designer of transportation structures like airports and train stations, award-winning, world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava came to international prominence at an early stage in his career. His popular yet controversial creations can now be found all over the globe, and his stunning proposal recently won the commission for the new transportation hub at the rebuilt World Trade Center in New York City.
Accompanying Calatrava to various work sites we begin to understand the problems someone in his position encounters and get to know him during his hectic work schedule. In unexpected quiet moments (on an airplane, in a hotel lobby, sitting at a bar) he paints or draws, dedicating the rare moments of serenity to his work as well. Some of the films most powerful moments include his comments on the creative process and visual thought.
A specialist at sculptural works, what distinguishes Calatrava from other celebrity architects is his talent and skill as a construction engineer. We visit construction sites, railway stations, bridges, concert halls, airports... Through the images and sounds of the documentary, space, function, form and atmosphere are conveyed. The forms are extraordinary: dynamic, frozen movements - buildings that evoke nature. In these forms SANTIAGO CALATRAVA'S TRAVELS searches for a visual framework of remembrance, opening the door to Calatrava's associations or references in architectural and art history.
The result is a tour of his oeuvre and an encounter with extraordinary shapes; dynamic equipoise, forms that hearken to waves, trees, wind, rock, wings, the natural world.
DVD (Color) / 1999 / 77 minutes
ARCHITECTURE OF DOOM, THE
Director: Peter Cohen
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture. From Nazi party rallies to the final days inside Hitler's bunker, this sensational film shows how Adolf Hitler rose from being a failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror.
Hittler worshipped ancient Rome and Greece, and dreamed of a new Golden Age of classical art and monumental architecture, populated by beautiful, patriotic Aryans. "Degenerate" artists and "inferior" races had no place in his lurid fantasy. As this riveting film shows, the Nazis went from banning the art of modernists like Picasso to forced euthanasia of the retarded and sick, and finally to the persecution of homosexuals and the extermination of Jews.
DVD / 1991 / 119 minutes
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