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Marco Orsini filming Le Corbusier mural for GRAY MATTERS @CelinaLafuenteDeLavotha, Courtesy MoJo Entertainment, LLC

Orla Brady as Eileen Gray and Francesco Scianna as Jean Badovici in front of Villa e1027 in THE PRICE OF DESIRE. Copyright Julian Lennon 2014. All Rights Reserved. IMG_8305 copy

THE LITTLE FILM COMPANY boards THE EILEEN GRAY PROJECT : THE PRICE OF DESIRE and GRAY MATTERS 

With Cannes Market screening of Gray Matters and Selected Scenes from the feature The Price of Desire Thursday, May 14, 12:00pm - Riviera 1

Writer/Director Mary McGuckian’s The Price of Desire Stars

Orla Brady as Eileen Gray, Vincent Perez as her nemesis Le Corbusier, Francesco Scianna as Jean Badovici and Alanis Morissette as the chanteuse Marisa Damia, Dominique Pinon and Elsa Zylberstien

Gray Matters by Marco Orsini explores the life & Work of Pioneering Irish Artist, Designer and Architect, through the eyes of the world’s most significant Eileen Gray experts 

The Little Film Company will debut both films for International Sales at the upcoming Cannes Market.  The documentary Gray Matters and selected scenes from the feature film The Price Of Desire will screen in Cannes on Thursday, May 14, 12:00pm - Riviera 1.

The Price Of Desire  tells the controversial story of how the Father of modernism, Le Corbusier, effaced and defaced Eileen Gray's moral right to be recognized as the author of her work as well as one of the most forceful and influential inspirations of a century of modern architecture and design. Focusing on the love triangle between the bisexual Gray and her lovers Jean Badovici and Marisa Damia in the context of her long-running feud with Le Corbusier who “vandalized” her beloved and iconic “E1027” modernist villa in the South of France, the film stars Orla Brady in the role of Eileen Gray and Vincent Perez as Le Corbusier.

Gray Matters  explores the work of arguably one of the most important designers and architects of the 20^th century through the eyes of the many academics, artists, collectors, curators, experts and dealers who have studied and worked in the world of Eileen Gray. Was it professional resentment on the part of her peers, sexism, her own discretion or the agenda of others?  The innovation of her creative output and the clarity of her unique vision has motivated a new generation of contemporary scholars, collectors and curators to investigate, recover and celebrate her creativity, her innovation and her uncompromising determination.  The world has rediscovered Eileen Gray and the rehabilitation of her reputation, begun in the final 10 years of her lifetime, has been rekindled.

The EILEEN GRAY PROJECTS are:

Feature Film

THE PRICE of DESIRE

by Mary McGuckian

With Orla Brady as Eileen Gray, Vincent Perez as her nemesis Le Corbusier, Francesco Scianna as Jean Badovici, Alanis Morissette as the chanteuse Marisa Damia, Dominique Pinon and Elsa Zylberstien

Documentary

GRAY MATTERS

by Marco Orsini

Eileen Gray’s life and work is revised with participation of the most significant Eileen Gray experts world wide available in feature and broadcast length versions

Biography

EILEEN GRAY: HER WORK AND HER WORLD

by Dr Jennifer Goff PhD

National Museum of Ireland’s curator, Dr Jennifer Goff’s definitive and revisionary biography Eileen Gray: Her Work and Her World published by Irish Academic Press and available internationally

Museums and Galleries

EILEEN GRAY EXHIBITIONS

Le Centre Pompidou in association with National Museum of Ireland

The Pompidou’s Eileen Gray exhibition will travel to the Bard Graduate Center Gallery New York and other venues across 2015 to coincide with the 50^th anniversary of the death of Le Corbusier

Photographic Prints

STONEY ROAD PRESS LIMITED EDITION

by Julian Lennon

A limited edition box set of stills by Julian Lennon of portraits of the characters from the Eileen Gray film The Price of Desire published in a limited edition box set

Music

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

by Brian Byrne featuring Alanis Morissette

The soundtrack album of Golden Globe-nominated composer Brian Byrne’s original score for both films, featuring a single cut of Alanis Morissette’s rendition of Marisa Damia’s classic

‘On Danse A La Villette’

Architectonic Events

VILLA e1027

by Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray’s original Villa e1027, Maison Bord de Mer, will be opened to the public on May 1st 2015 and a limited series of exact replica fully furnished turnkey modular Villas commence construction and installation

Virtual Experience

e1027

by Iglumedia

An interactive non-fiction game for PC and iPad that pushes the emotional boundaries of narrative EndFragment experience with the vivid tale of Eileen Gray’s pioneering architectural work: e1027

VIP/PRESS Luncheon Tours from Cannes to Eileen Gray’s iconic and recently restored architectural masterpiece in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Villa E1027 will be conducted daily during the festival