The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Their motto was “the best for the least for the most” — a characteristically pithy statement of a utopian ideal of capitalist mass production.

Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film since their death dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.

Part of the Center’s multidisciplinary project Creativity at Work.

Not rated. 124 minutes.