In an early scene in “Thunder” (“Foudre”), the camera soars around the Swiss Alps. Caught at first in daytime, as it glides down a grassy hillside, past a stream, it hovers over a high valley, up to rocky peaks and blue sky and around again in a final 360 degree circle. There it alights on Elisabeth, 17, a nun, as the sun sets behind a mountain in silhouette. Meanwhile, religious choir music swells on the soundtrack.
The shot is symptomatic of the muscular physical direction of Swiss writer-director Carmen Jaquier, whose feature debut world premieres at Toronto’s Platform, before segueing to San Sebastian’s main New Directors sidebar, where it weighs in as one of the buzziest titles in the section.
“Thunder” is set in 1900 when the church exercised an extraordinary grip over outward social life and Swiss hamlets were dirt poor. Elisabeth returns to her village after the mysterious death of her elder sister,...
The shot is symptomatic of the muscular physical direction of Swiss writer-director Carmen Jaquier, whose feature debut world premieres at Toronto’s Platform, before segueing to San Sebastian’s main New Directors sidebar, where it weighs in as one of the buzziest titles in the section.
“Thunder” is set in 1900 when the church exercised an extraordinary grip over outward social life and Swiss hamlets were dirt poor. Elisabeth returns to her village after the mysterious death of her elder sister,...
- 9/9/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Tribeca Film Festival and Chanel have teamed to present Art Is New York/New York Is Art. The program invited more than 60 artists to contribute original sketches inspired by the relationship between art and New York City. The works will be posted on vacated storefronts throughout lower Manhattan.
Contributing artists include Julian Schnabel, Kiki Smith, Dustin Yellin, Nate Lowman, Swoon, Chuck D, Matthew Modine, Christopher Walken, Donna Ferrato, Aurel Schmidt, Kalup Linzy, Don Gummer and Sophie Matisse. A short film released in conjunction with Art Is New York/New York Is Art features Schnabel, Chuck D and Ferrato.
“Tribeca’s longstanding partnership with Chanel in supporting human expression through art is deeply rooted in the spirit of the festival. Their commitment to honoring the boldness and authenticity of artists is palpable,” Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises and Tribeca Festival, said in a statement released Monday morning.
Contributing artists include Julian Schnabel, Kiki Smith, Dustin Yellin, Nate Lowman, Swoon, Chuck D, Matthew Modine, Christopher Walken, Donna Ferrato, Aurel Schmidt, Kalup Linzy, Don Gummer and Sophie Matisse. A short film released in conjunction with Art Is New York/New York Is Art features Schnabel, Chuck D and Ferrato.
“Tribeca’s longstanding partnership with Chanel in supporting human expression through art is deeply rooted in the spirit of the festival. Their commitment to honoring the boldness and authenticity of artists is palpable,” Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises and Tribeca Festival, said in a statement released Monday morning.
- 6/7/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Dennis Hopper on Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat in Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s documentary, produced with David Koh: “They brought a vitality and an energy to art that just hadn’t been there. The importance of those three artists, they just seemed to bring the eighties alive really.” Photo: Tseng Kwong Chi / Courtesy Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc.
Two of the 2020 Doc NYC highlights are on artists. The world premiere of Chris McKim’s hard-edged Wojnarowicz brings back to life the committed activist/artist/poet/performer David Wojnarowicz who died from AIDS in 1992 at age 37.
Malia Scharf on Kenny Scharf with Keith Haring: "He was and still is such an important part of Kenny and our lives."
And there is Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s intimate portrait, Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide (produced with David Koh), which features remembrances from Kenny of Keith Haring,...
Two of the 2020 Doc NYC highlights are on artists. The world premiere of Chris McKim’s hard-edged Wojnarowicz brings back to life the committed activist/artist/poet/performer David Wojnarowicz who died from AIDS in 1992 at age 37.
Malia Scharf on Kenny Scharf with Keith Haring: "He was and still is such an important part of Kenny and our lives."
And there is Malia Scharf and Max Basch’s intimate portrait, Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide (produced with David Koh), which features remembrances from Kenny of Keith Haring,...
- 11/4/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Over three decades ago, Elizabeth Taylor first used her voice and her fame to bring attention to those afflicted with the AIDS virus. When she died in 2011, she left behind a legacy of AIDS activism and using her voice on behalf of those who did not have one. Now, her family, including children Michael Wilding Jr. and Liza Todd-Tivey and grandchildren Quinn Tivey and Naomi Wilding, are continuing her fight as The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation launches an online art auction to benefit its efforts to eradicate the disease
“The thing that was most important to me in my youth...
“The thing that was most important to me in my youth...
- 9/17/2019
- by Liz McNeil, Dana Rose Falcone
- PEOPLE.com
Batsheva Hay, who likes Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite and loves Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, on George Cukor's Little Women, costumes by Walter Plunkett: 'It's so good' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Greta Gerwig's upcoming Little Women with Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, and Louis Garrel, could make a lot of new people discover Batsheva Hay's clothes, which found their way onto Jacqueline Durran's costume design inspiration board. As in a Möbius strip, Louisa May Alcott's novel and the various movie incarnations influenced the designer's aesthetic in the first place. Isabelle Adjani at Cannes in the Eighties, Kiki Smith's Wolf Girl, Katharine Hepburn off The African Queen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Frida Kahlo, Romy Schneider, Sissy Spacek, and Jules Bastien-Lepage's Joan of Arc are some of the extraordinary images assembled by Batsheva on Instagram as muses.
Batsheva's clothes...
Batsheva's clothes...
- 2/22/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
John Giorno's God Is Manmade for the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director honoree Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The roster of nine contemporary artists participating in the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program, sponsored by Chanel, are Walton Ford, John Giorno seen in Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Jorge Pardo, Rh Quaytman, Sterling Ruby (Frédéric Tcheng's Dior And I), Aurel Schmidt, Ryan Sullivan, Stephen Hannock and Tara Subkoff's #Horror executive producer Urs Fischer.
Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel (seen in Pappi Corsicato’s Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait at the festival) Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, Nan Goldin, April Gornik, Jeff Koons, David Salle, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith were some of the past contributors to Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal's Artists Awards initiative.
Urs Fischer's boomboomboom, 2016, The Transit of Venus (Melanie) for the Audience Award: Documentary Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's artworks for...
The roster of nine contemporary artists participating in the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program, sponsored by Chanel, are Walton Ford, John Giorno seen in Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Jorge Pardo, Rh Quaytman, Sterling Ruby (Frédéric Tcheng's Dior And I), Aurel Schmidt, Ryan Sullivan, Stephen Hannock and Tara Subkoff's #Horror executive producer Urs Fischer.
Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel (seen in Pappi Corsicato’s Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait at the festival) Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, Nan Goldin, April Gornik, Jeff Koons, David Salle, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith were some of the past contributors to Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal's Artists Awards initiative.
Urs Fischer's boomboomboom, 2016, The Transit of Venus (Melanie) for the Audience Award: Documentary Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's artworks for...
- 4/21/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
This is the fourth of a series of interviews that focus on Local 829's Scenic Artists’ "behind the scenes" talent who sculpt and paint in a variety of ways the sets we see on television, in movies and documentaries, on theater stages, and in the backgrounds of television and internet commercials.
I first met Bradley Rubenstein very early on in my days in the scenic arts, and it was immediately apparent that he was, and still is, respectfully dedicated to his work as a fine artist. I’ve followed his career closely since then, watching his art delving deeper and deeper into the human condition as he distorts and mutates his subjects. Recently, Rubenstein had one of his warped and mangled human forms in an exhibition titled Head that I curated for the Hampden Gallery at Umass Amherst.
The interview below begins just days before the installation of Head. The...
I first met Bradley Rubenstein very early on in my days in the scenic arts, and it was immediately apparent that he was, and still is, respectfully dedicated to his work as a fine artist. I’ve followed his career closely since then, watching his art delving deeper and deeper into the human condition as he distorts and mutates his subjects. Recently, Rubenstein had one of his warped and mangled human forms in an exhibition titled Head that I curated for the Hampden Gallery at Umass Amherst.
The interview below begins just days before the installation of Head. The...
- 2/3/2016
- www.culturecatch.com
Denis Johnson’s great-great-great-great grandfather was a pirate. This bit of family lore weighed on the author’s mind as he and his old friend, the artist Sam Messer, traveled to the Grenadines in the late 1990s. They were attending the artist residency Moonhole in the company of Kiki Smith, Sally Mann, and Rachel Whiteread, as well as Messer’s 6-year-old daughter, Josephine. Johnson, who had published the short-story collection Jesus’ Son a few years earlier, sometimes entertained Josephine, his goddaughter, with a tale he wrote called “Denis the Pirate.” It was the story of a fearsome pirate who sailed the seas with a one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged monkey who smoked mushrooms and spoke 27 languages, including Elephant and Iguana.The story had been sitting in a drawer for 15 years, but Messer, now associate dean of Yale’s art school, says, “I’ve always known I wanted to do something with it.
- 12/16/2014
- by Rachel Corbett
- Vulture
Domenique Lévy and Emmanuel Perrotin have collaborated on presenting a survey of figurative sculptures by Germaine Richier, who Lévy, -- in perhaps, overly bold rhetoric -- claims to have been “the mother of post war sculpture in Europe.” It has been fifty seven years since her first one person show in New York at the Martha Jackson Gallery. Hardly a forgotten figure in France and Europe, during her lifetime she was in five consecutive Venice Biennales, and in recent decades her work has been seen in major surveys of the period: Paris-Paris (1981) at the Centre Pompidou, Aftermath (1982) at the Barbican Art Gallery, Paris Post War (1993) at the Tate Gallery and a retrospective at the Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul (1996), followed by another at the Academie der Kunst in Berlin (1997). In America, she fell from sight after her untimely death in 1959. The exhibition is on three floors of the two galleries 73th street townhouse.
- 6/6/2014
- by David Carbone
- www.culturecatch.com
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