Doug Aitken lenses Richard Neutra’s modernist architecture in a search for connection & reflection

Shot inside the Richard Neutra-designed Tremaine House in Montecito, California – a private residence never before used as a filming location – American artist Doug Aitken captures a modernist home inhabited by characters searching for meaning, reflection and place in Lightscape - Open House. Playing with light, shadow, and reflections cast by the house’s extensive glass walls and kaleidoscopic mirrors, Aitken captures his characters in a shared sense of self-reflection, and desire to connect with the histories and lives of those around them. Evolving into a vulnerable, humanistic study of the shifting state of modern life, Neutra’s West Coast modernist architecture becomes both a pleasure prison and a fever dream – where narratives intertwine but never quite shatter the protective glass of the gaze... read more at nowness.com _______________________________________ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness