메트로그라프: 리 프리들랜더, 낸 골딘 등 사진작가 선정 영화제 'FRAENKEL GALLERY PRESENTS'
Beginning May 8 Metrograph In Theater
FRAENKEL GALLERY PRESENTS
A Six-Film Artist-Curated Series Featuring Selections by Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Martine Gutierrez, Wardell Milan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Carrie Mae Weems
Opening Night Screening of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN on Friday, May 8 Followed by Q&A with Director Joel Coen
Introductions from Select Participating Artists
Metrograph presents Fraenkel Gallery Presents, beginning May 8 at Metrograph In Theater.
“Fraenkel Gallery Presents highlights six films from San Francisco’s Fraenkel Film Festival, each selected by artists from across the gallery’s program—Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Martine Gutierrez, Wardell Milan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Carrie Mae Weems—whose love for cinema inspires their practice. The selections reflect these affinities in surprising ways: Gutierrez’s selection of Princess Mononoke parallels her ongoing exploration of transformation, hybridity, and constructed identity, themes she stages through performance and self-imaging. Weems’s choice of No Country for Old Men points to her sustained engagement with power, violence, and the shaping of American mythologies. Rooted in the belief that cinema is best experienced collectively, the series features artists in-person at their respective screenings at Metrograph, introducing the selections and sharing the connections that shape their work. Altogether, the event foregrounds the theater as an extension of the artist’s studio—a space for inspiration, exchange, and the live encounter with art and film.” —Christian Whitworth, Director, Fraenkel Gallery
Work by the featured artists is on view in a concurrent pop-up residency, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, at Ortuzar in New York, from May 9-21.
Fraenkel Gallery Presents runs from May 8 to May 17, with select encore screenings to follow.
The program includes Carrie Mae Weems's selection of No Country for Old Men, Martine Gutierrez's selection of Princess Mononoke, Wardell Milan's selection of Hereditary, Hiroshi Sugimoto's selection of The Face of Another, Lee Friedlander's selection of North by Northwest, and Nan Goldin's selection of The Naked Kiss.
Introductions by featured artists in person for select screenings.
#Carrie Mae Weems Selects
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2007, 122 min, DCP
The devil rides out in 1980s West Texas in the Coens’ marvelously sustained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name, with Javier Bardem in the role of remorseless, curiously coiffured hitman Anton Chigurh (certainly one of the most unforgettable heavies in recent-ish American pictures), Josh Brolin as the poor schlep who’s stumbled across two million bucks that Chigurh’s on the trail of, and Tommy Lee Jones as the aging Terrell County Sheriff trying to make sense of a mounting body count in his jurisdiction. Terse, hard-bitten, utterly absorbing in its process-oriented straightforwardness and, in the final measure, suffused with an implacable sorrow.
Introduction by artist Carrie Mae Weems and Q&A with director Joel Coen on Friday, May 8.
#Martine Gutierrez Selects
PRINCESS MONONOKE
dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1997, 113 min, DCP
Clashing with an archdemon boar, warrior Ashitaka is stricken with an empowering but ultimately fatal curse, and journeying into the unknown of the Great Forest in search of a cure, meets the fierce titular warrior woman, raised by wolf-gods. Miyazaki’s gorgeously animated, mythic tale about a battle between humans and ancient forest spirits is an epic with an environmental message, justly a phenomenon in Japan upon its initial release, and since beloved around the world. [Original Japanese Version]
Introduction by artist Martine Gutierrez on Saturday, May 9.
#Wardell Milan Selects
HEREDITARY
dir. Ari Aster, 2018, 127 min, DCP
Annie Graham (Toni Collette) has just buried her mother, but this is only the beginning of the travails that will face the Grahams—Annie’s husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne), their 16-year-old son Peter (Alex Wolff), and their 13-year-old daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro)—in Aster’s occult horror/family tragedy, which begins its litany of punishments with an accident involving a slice of chocolate cake, a moving car, and a telephone pole, and scarcely lets up from there. Ari Aster's debut feature would instantly establish him as a signature filmmaker to watch, with a haunting centerpiece performance from Collette, up there with her most formidable work.
Introduction by artist Wardell Milan on Saturday, May 9.
#Hiroshi Sugimoto Selects
THE FACE OF ANOTHER
dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966, 124 min, 35mm
The great Tatsuya Nakadai plays Mr. Okuyama, a businessman disfigured beyond recognition in a freak industrial accident who, through the operations of his psychiatrist, is affixed with a lifelike mask molded from the features of a stranger—a miracle solution that in time becomes a curse, eroding Okuyama’s sense of self and resulting in a disturbing change in his personality. The third Teshigahara/Abe/Takemitsu collaboration, with Woman in the Dunes cinematographer Hiroshi Segawa here doing uncanny, unforgettable work.
#Lee Friedlander Selects
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959, 136 min, 4K DCP
From the United Nations building to broad-shouldered Chicago to Mount Rushmore, with a scenic stop at an empty field somewhere in the Midwest, follow beleaguered ad exec Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) and his mysterious companion (Eva Marie Saint) as they embark on an action-packed chase-itinerary that only makes for one of the most gleefully entertaining, graphically striking movies ever made, all ending in a final shot that will never fail to induce adolescent chuckles.
#Nan Goldin Selects
THE NAKED KISS
dir. Samuel Fuller, 1964, 90 min, 35mm
“Tell me why, Mommy dear, are there tears in your eyes?” Fuller’s melodramatic, noir-inflected exposé of small-town hypocrisy and amorality starts with a shock—call girl Constance Towers thrashes the bejeezus out of a drunk man to the tune of blaring jazz, losing her wig in the process to reveal a shiny cue-ball pate—and doesn’t let up from there. Leaving her old life behind, the reformed Kelly (Towers) arrives in the all-American burg of Grantville—and soon discovers deeper depravity than ever she encountered while turning an honest trick going on behind the manicured lawns and picket fences.
35mm print courtesy of Peter Conheim/Cinema Preservation Alliance
Introduction by artist Nan Goldin on Sunday, May 17.
ABOUT FRAENKEL GALLERY
Since 1979, Fraenkel Gallery has presented almost 400 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other media. Based in San Francisco, the gallery exhibits and publishes significant works of art in a variety of media spanning two centuries. We believe that to understand photographs it helps to see them in light of other objects, and vice versa. fraenkelgallery.com/
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
LEE FRIEDLANDER
Lee Friedlander invented the term “social landscape” to describe the vivid mixture of people and places he has photographed since 1948. With an ability to organize a vast amount of visual information in dynamic compositions, Friedlander has made humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life or in dense natural landscapes, focusing on countless subjects ranging from cars and trees to monuments and nudes.
NAN GOLDIN
Nan Goldin is a photographer and activist known for her intensely personal and transgressive photographs of her family, friends, and lovers. Goldin first presented her ever-evolving slideshows of photographs, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, in a New York City nightclub in 1979, and it was soon heralded as a groundbreaking contribution to fine art photography.
MARTINE GUTIERREZ
Martine Gutierrez is a transdisciplinary artist, utilizing photography and video to subvert various performances of pop-cultural tropes in the exploration of identity.
WARDELL MILAN
New York-based artist Wardell Milan works in mixed media, combining elements of photography, drawing, painting, and collage. His work often explores the duality between marginalization and freedom of expression, imagining spaces where the marginalized body is able to express itself and move about the world freely.
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Working in photography since the 1970s, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, performing arts production, and architecture. His work explores history and temporal existence by investigating themes of time, empiricism, and metaphysics. Sugimoto examines the ways photography can record traces of invisible but elemental forces.
CARRIE MAE WEEMS
Carrie Mae Weems is a widely influential American artist whose work gives voice to people whose stories have been silenced or ignored. Investigating history, identity, and power, she finds connections between personal experience and the larger structures and institutions that shape our lives.
https://metrograph.com
*NYFF60 낸 골딘 Vs. 새클러: '모든 아름다움과 유혈사태 (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed)' ★★★★☆
https://www.nyculturebeat.com/?mid=Film2&document_srl=4080984
메트 오페라 '유진 오네긴(Eugene Onegin)' 세계 1천9백개 극장 ...