2017, Director: Thomas Piper,
75 min, subtitled

Celebrated Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf is famous for designing public works, like New York City’s popular High Line and Chicago’s Millennium Park. His approach to design is so unique, so romantic, so effortless seeming, but it is in fact a genius approach of careful structure and considered layering that embraces all seasons — not just when a plant is flowering.

Beautifully shot and profiling exquisite gardens, this film gives us thoughtful insight into Oudolf’s creative process. Through intimate discussions in all seasons at Piet’s own gardens at Hummelo, and on visits to his signature public works in New York, Chicago and the Netherlands, we see and hear what motivates him.

From his aesthetic theories to his strikingly abstract sketches to the ecological implications of his ideas, Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf poetically reveals how Oudolf upends conventional notions of nature, public space, and ultimately, beauty itself.

Includes Q&A hosted by NZILA

AKL: Tue 8 May, 6:30 pm (speakers: Sarah Collins / Richard Neville)

WGTN: Tue 29 May, 6:30 pm (speakers: Mchael Wright / Nicole Thompson)

DUN: Thu 21 June, 6:30 pm (speakers: Emma Taylor / Hugh Forsyth)

CHCH: Thu 5 July, 6:00 pm (speakers: Nicki Williams / Louise Bailey)

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