Interviews with the junior designers swept into the 24-7 world of "The Eamery" are the heart of this complex picture of a husband-and-wife creative team that define the era of Mid-Century Modernism. Narrated by James Franco, the film draws from a trove of archival material, primarily the stunning films and photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles, Ray, and their staff during the hyper-creative forty years of the Eames Office.
Cinematography
Those Eames propaganda films slap harder than they should.
Editing
James Franco narrating like he's stoned at MoMA somehow works.
Production
Archival footage porn for mid-century obsessives.
Director
Jason Cohn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver writer) appears as an Eames Office alum because he was literally a junior designer there before Hollywood.
The Eames Lounge Chair was designed to look like 'a baseball mitt'—and cost more than most cars in 1956, cementing luxury design for the masses as a beautiful lie.
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