Join Tucson Modernism Week for a special screening of the new film Modernism Inc.

Mid-century architect and designer Eliot Noyes built the design programs for some of America’s most powerful postwar corporations. The film weaves Noyes’ story with the broader context of corporate America’s embrace of Modernism during the period of postwar economic expansion and culminates in the backlash against Noyes and his generation during the countercultural upheaval of the Vietnam era. The life and work of Eliot Noyes is a vehicle to explore the intersection of postwar business, technology and design – a story that continues to resonate in the contemporary context.

Filmmaking Team

Jason Andrew Cohn is a writer, producer, and director who has worked in print, radio, television, and film. He is the Peabody Award-winning director of “EAMES: The Architect and the Painter.” His 2019 film “The First Angry Man,” which traces the roots of the Tax Revolt to a California ballot initiative, was a Library of Congress – Lavine / Ken Burns Prize finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Press Club award for political documentary. His writing on public affairs and culture has appeared in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone Magazine.