Sponsored by insitustudio.us - Matt Griffith and Zach Hoffman.

Arthur Elrod was Palm Springs' most glamorous interior designer, and his playground was architect John Lautner's concrete-and-glass masterpiece — immortalized in Diamonds Are Forever. This film reveals how Elrod fused desert modernism with Hollywood theatricality, creating spaces so bold even Bond villains coveted them. Essential viewing.

Tuesday, October 6 - The House: Six Points of Departure

 

What does it truly mean to design a home? Six architects. Six radical answers. This documentary dissects the house as both shelter and manifesto, tracing how the best residential design grows from a single obsessive idea.

Tuesday, November 3 - The Harvard Five

In 1945, five Gropius-trained Harvard graduates descended on New Canaan, Connecticut and turned a sleepy suburb into a modernist laboratory. Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Landis Gores, John Johansen — five friends, five visions, one revolution. This is how a single generation rewired American residential architecture forever.

Tuesday, December 7 - Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

Canada's greatest architect designed buildings that feel inevitable — as if the landscape itself demanded them. Simon Fraser University, Robson Square, the Canadian Embassy in Washington: Erickson made landscape inseparable from structure and brutalism genuinely poetic. This gorgeous portrait reveals the philosophy behind a career of breathtaking spatial invention.

Tuesday, .January 6 - Sittlng Still

Sitting Still is an original documentary directed by Gina Angelone that explores the life and visionary work of Laurie Olin, one of the world's most influential landscape architects. It highlights his profoundly social vision, emphasizing humanity, urbanization, nature, and the creation of democratic, egalitarian public spaces.

Tuesday February 2 - Palm Springs Weekend + Martini Night

Palm Springs Weekend is 1 1963 romantic comedy following Los Angeles college students on Easter break in the desert resort of Palm Springs, packed with poolside mayhem, musical numbers, and overlapping romances. Pre-med basketball player Jim (Troy Donahue) pursues Bunny (Stefanie Powers), daughter of the overprotective local police chief; socialite Gayle (Connie Stevens) is courted by both a spoiled playboy (Robert Conrad) and a rugged stuntman (Ty Hardin); and Jim's bumbling roommate Biff (Jerry Van Dyke) chases a tomboyish girl (Zeme North) while wrangling a mischievous kid at their motel. As the students' antics clash with townspeople and hotel staff, the weekend delivers the expected lessons in love and maturity.  Come for the kitsch, stay for the great showing of Palm Springs!

Plus, you cn get one of our curated martinis with a keepsake glass!

Tuesday, March 2 - Lewerentz Divine Darkness

Sigurd Lewerentz spent decades in obscurity before designing two late-career churches so radical they read as sacred brutalism from another dimension. St. Mark's. St. Peter's. No straight lines, no compromises, no apologies. This film follows architecture's greatest late bloomer into the shadows — and it is absolutely devastating.

Tuesday, April 6 - Becoming Modern Part One by Jess Bushyhead

Trailer coming soon.

 Filmmaker Jess Bushyhead traces how midcentury ideas took root in our own backyard — in the houses, schools, and civic buildings that quietly transformed the Triangle and beyond. A rare chance to see your architectural heritage through a sharp, revelatory local lens.

Tuesday, May 4 - Herb Greene: Continuum (Remembering the Future)

Herb Greene's houses don't look like houses — they look like living things. Feathered, muscular, grown from Oklahoma soil under Bruce Goff's spell, his 1961 Prairie Chicken House remains one of America's most astonishing structures. This film finally gives Greene his due as an irreplaceable American original.