Following the extraordinary success of last year's inaugural event, Fraenkel Gallery is proud to announce the return of the Fraenkel Film Festival, a groundbreaking cinema series curated entirely by visual artists. Once again, all of the proceeds from the festival will benefit the Roxie.
The Fraenkel Film Festival takes an unprecedented curatorial approach--the 21 films were selected by Fraenkel Gallery artists who love cinema and are deeply sensitive to its subtleties. Highlighting the artists' distinct perspectives, the selections present an unexpected look at their range of creative influences and intellectual curiosities.
Each artist's selection offers insight into their thinking and temperament. Richard Misrach remarks that The Last Picture Show "speaks to the importance of film and the death of small towns all over America," noting the connection between cinema and community. Sophie Calle's selection of Crumb, celebrating it's 30 anniversary, will include director Terry Zwigoff IN PERSON, in conversation with writer & curatorJordan Stein. Artist duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have often explored the power of sound in their work, and chose Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), a film celebrated for its groundbreaking sound design: "The muffled, distorted conversations, along with the constant presence of surveillance sounds, create such unease and uncertainty," they note. For Elisheva Biernoff, who makes meticulous paintings recreating found photographs, The Wizard of Oz (1939) represents "a story where the familiar warps into fantasy." She describes her enduring love for "this complex movie [that] thrills at imagination realized through craft--the unabashed beauty of the film stock, the virtuoso vaudevillian song-and-dance routines, the score, the dazzling sets and matte paintings, the fantastical costumes--it's lush and luminous and terrifying." Christian Marclay selected Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria (2021), and writes about the film: "Slow to the point of stillness, this film gives you time to think. It will put you in a meditative state, and its mysterious beauty will free your imagination more than any action film."
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The Fraenkel Film Festival takes an unprecedented curatorial approach--the 21 films were selected by Fraenkel Gallery artists who love cinema and are deeply sensitive to its subtleties. Highlighting the artists' distinct perspectives, the selections present an unexpected look at their range of creative influences and intellectual curiosities.
Each artist's selection offers insight into their thinking and temperament. Richard Misrach remarks that The Last Picture Show "speaks to the importance of film and the death of small towns all over America," noting the connection between cinema and community. Sophie Calle's selection of Crumb, celebrating it's 30 anniversary, will include director Terry Zwigoff IN PERSON, in conversation with writer & curatorJordan Stein. Artist duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have often explored the power of sound in their work, and chose Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), a film celebrated for its groundbreaking sound design: "The muffled, distorted conversations, along with the constant presence of surveillance sounds, create such unease and uncertainty," they note. For Elisheva Biernoff, who makes meticulous paintings recreating found photographs, The Wizard of Oz (1939) represents "a story where the familiar warps into fantasy." She describes her enduring love for "this complex movie [that] thrills at imagination realized through craft--the unabashed beauty of the film stock, the virtuoso vaudevillian song-and-dance routines, the score, the dazzling sets and matte paintings, the fantastical costumes--it's lush and luminous and terrifying." Christian Marclay selected Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria (2021), and writes about the film: "Slow to the point of stillness, this film gives you time to think. It will put you in a meditative state, and its mysterious beauty will free your imagination more than any action film."
Following the extraordinary success of last year's inaugural event, Fraenkel Gallery is proud to announce the return of the Fraenkel Film Festival, a groundbreaking cinema series curated entirely by visual artists. Once again, all of the proceeds from the festival will benefit the Roxie.
The Fraenkel Film Festival takes an unprecedented curatorial approach--the 21 films were selected by Fraenkel Gallery artists who love cinema and are deeply sensitive to its subtleties. Highlighting the artists' distinct perspectives, the selections present an unexpected look at their range of creative influences and intellectual curiosities.
Each artist's selection offers insight into their thinking and temperament. Richard Misrach remarks that The Last Picture Show "speaks to the importance of film and the death of small towns all over America," noting the connection between cinema and community. Sophie Calle's selection of Crumb, celebrating it's 30 anniversary, will include director Terry Zwigoff IN PERSON, in conversation with writer & curatorJordan Stein. Artist duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have often explored the power of sound in their work, and chose Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), a film celebrated for its groundbreaking sound design: "The muffled, distorted conversations, along with the constant presence of surveillance sounds, create such unease and uncertainty," they note. For Elisheva Biernoff, who makes meticulous paintings recreating found photographs, The Wizard of Oz (1939) represents "a story where the familiar warps into fantasy." She describes her enduring love for "this complex movie [that] thrills at imagination realized through craft--the unabashed beauty of the film stock, the virtuoso vaudevillian song-and-dance routines, the score, the dazzling sets and matte paintings, the fantastical costumes--it's lush and luminous and terrifying." Christian Marclay selected Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria (2021), and writes about the film: "Slow to the point of stillness, this film gives you time to think. It will put you in a meditative state, and its mysterious beauty will free your imagination more than any action film."
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The Fraenkel Film Festival takes an unprecedented curatorial approach--the 21 films were selected by Fraenkel Gallery artists who love cinema and are deeply sensitive to its subtleties. Highlighting the artists' distinct perspectives, the selections present an unexpected look at their range of creative influences and intellectual curiosities.
Each artist's selection offers insight into their thinking and temperament. Richard Misrach remarks that The Last Picture Show "speaks to the importance of film and the death of small towns all over America," noting the connection between cinema and community. Sophie Calle's selection of Crumb, celebrating it's 30 anniversary, will include director Terry Zwigoff IN PERSON, in conversation with writer & curatorJordan Stein. Artist duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have often explored the power of sound in their work, and chose Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), a film celebrated for its groundbreaking sound design: "The muffled, distorted conversations, along with the constant presence of surveillance sounds, create such unease and uncertainty," they note. For Elisheva Biernoff, who makes meticulous paintings recreating found photographs, The Wizard of Oz (1939) represents "a story where the familiar warps into fantasy." She describes her enduring love for "this complex movie [that] thrills at imagination realized through craft--the unabashed beauty of the film stock, the virtuoso vaudevillian song-and-dance routines, the score, the dazzling sets and matte paintings, the fantastical costumes--it's lush and luminous and terrifying." Christian Marclay selected Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria (2021), and writes about the film: "Slow to the point of stillness, this film gives you time to think. It will put you in a meditative state, and its mysterious beauty will free your imagination more than any action film."
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