E.1027 - EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA

In 1929, on the Côte d'Azur, Eileen Gray built her first architectural work – a villa as enigmatic as herself and a masterpiece of avant-gardism. Years later, obsessed with its painful beauty, Le Corbusier vandalised it with unconsented frescoes and built his famous Cabanon right behind it, marking his territory and appropriating its legend. A docufiction of intrigue around this unsolved case and an intimate portrait of a visionary architect, it explores this iconic space through a gender perspective that redefines it. The real E.1027 house – now a museum – serves partly as the backdrop recreating biographical scenes that, combined with archival footage, unfold into an elegant and reflective film about a creator who broke down the barriers in female artistic expression, despite attempts to stop her.