‘Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea - Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub’

A cinematic journey into the mind of Eileen Gray. In 1929, the Irish designer built her first house on the Côte d'Azur, a discreet, avant-garde masterpiece. She called it E.1027, an enigmatic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. When Le Corbusier discovered the house, he was intrigued, even obsessed. Unbeknown to E Gray, who no longer lived there, he covered the walls with murals and published photographs as from 1938. Eilleen Gray described the paintings as vandalism and asked him, through Badovici, to remove them. Ignoring his injunction, he built his famous Cabanon above villa E.1027 in 1952. A story of the excellence of female expression and the desire of men to control it.
Writer and director Beatrice Minger is based in Zurich. She worked as Assistant Director and Script Supervisor on various projects and directs short films and video clips. In 2018, her art book Hier Sass Er was published. Her own short films Love a Little (2018) and I feel more like a stranger (2021) have multiple international screenings at festivals. The hybrid cinema documentary E.1027 (2024), her debut feature, premiered in competition at CPH:Dox in Copenhagen.