REMEMBERING THE FUTURE WITH HERB GREENE
A full-length documentary film on Herb Greene and the untold story of Organic Architecture.
FILMMAKERS
Lila Cohen / Director, Executive Producer
Lila Cohen is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and National Organization of Minority Architects, currently practicing in San Francisco. Her work is committed to collaborations with community non-profits, who provide services for under-served populations in the Bay Area, with a focus on neighborhood-based supportive housing and experimental multipurpose development projects involving modular construction. Cohen co-authored "Herb Greene’s Generations: Six Decades of Collage Art and Architecture Generated with Perspectives from Science" (ORO Editions, 2015) and has presented lectures on Greene's work at the University of California San Francisco, The School of Architecture at Taliesin and the University of Oklahoma. As a designer of small spaces that promote the use of repurposed materials she has appeared on Tiny House Hunting and worked with international organizations such as the Mmofra Foundation in Accra, Ghana. Cohen earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Arizona.
John Rogers / Co-Producer
John Rogers’ documentary film work focuses on addressing social concerns and exploring issues in art and culture. As a co-founder of the Optic Nerve collective in 1972, his work spans the first video documentaries to be broadcast on public television in the USA, the guerrilla television movement in San Francisco and collaborations with the avant-garde architecture group, Ant Farm. Rogers’ experimental video has been screened at the Kitchen Video Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As co-founder of the production company Ideas In Motion, his recent films include: Director / Producer / Editor of “Rova Channeling Coltrane”, a documentary on the Rova Saxophone Quartet’s reincarnation of John Coltrane’s free jazz milestone “Ascension”; Director of Photography, “Pursuing Beauty: The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck”; Director/Writer/Editor, “A Palace for the People”, a documentary on the history and restoration of the Aquatic Park Bathhouse Building in San Francisco. Rogers has received awards from the Chicago International Film Festival, National Educational Film Festival, Philadelphia International Film Festival, Intercom Festival, Cine Latino Festival, Tokyo International Science and Technology Film Festival, International Communication Film & Video Festival, and the Computer Press Awards.
ADVISORS
Luca Guido, Ph.D.
Architect, Architecture Historian, Author, Curator, Independent Scholar
Venice, Italy
Craig Lee
Curator, Historian
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice
Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Architecture and Design, Art Institute of Chicago
Alan Hess
Architecture Historian, Author, Architect
Independent Scholar, Irvine, California
Pierluigi Serraino, AIA
Architect, Author, Educator
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Stephanie Z. Pilat, Ph.D.
Professor, Architecture Historian, Author
Director of the Division of Architecture in the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma
Greg Castillo, Ph.D.
Professor, Architecture Historian, Curator
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Design