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| Fridays, 12:00 P.M.
Building 33, Conference Center, Redmond, Washington
The Microsoft Film Series explores the creative processes of artists who are represented in our collection, as well as the world of fine art. Film selections are unrated, and viewer discretion is advised. This program is free and open to the public. Please register for the film series by sending an e-mail message to artevent@microsoft.com. Space is limited and registration is first come, first served.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides (2001)
90 minutes
Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer
This documentary focuses on Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, whose work consists of ephemeral sculptures created from elements found in nature. His work is made of rocks, leaves, grass, ice, and other natural items, which disappear when the tide arrives at the beach or the wind blows on the field. Most of Goldsworthy's works do not last, except as photos or films of what they once were. The film reveals Goldsworthy's personality as a stable, unpretentious, family oriented person who loves nature and lives in a small village in Scotland.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress (2003)
57 minutes
Directed by Marion Cajori
Since 1969, when Chuck Close's series of black-and-white portraits was first exhibited, his paintings have drawn attention from the public and raised critical controversy. Created from Polaroid photographs, Close's huge close-ups (some as tall as nine feet) are severe, confrontational, and wholly compelling. Featuring interviews with Close, Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress traces the artist's evolution. Painting in the pointillist style, Close spends months on one painting. Today, his portraits brim with warm colors. Dubbed the "Mayor of Soho," he specializes in portraits of fellow artists, such as Jasper Johns (who is interviewed in the film). Close appears throughout the film, discussing his childhood learning disabilities and how, despite the 1989 illness that left him nearly completely paralyzed, he continues to paint.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Who Gets to Call it Art? (2006)
78 minutes
Directed by Peter Rosen
A wild ride through the New York City art scene of the 1960s, this film is based on the groundbreaking exhibit presented by the first curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Geldzahler. The exhibit, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, featured Geldzahler's selection of 400 works by living American artists. In Peter Rosen’s lively portrait of the iconoclastic connoisseur, many of these artists characterize Geldzahler's influence and personality with breathtaking candor. The film includes notable artists such as Mark di Suvero, Frank Stella, James Rosenquist, David Hockney, Larry Poons, Ellsworth Kelly, and Francesco Clemente.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Antonio López Garcia: El Sol del Membrillo (1992)
133 minutes
Directed by Victor Erice
This film is about the artistic process in Spanish director Victor Erice's movie, El Sol del Membrillo (The Quince Tree Sun). It loosely documents the efforts of artist Antonio Lopez to paint the titular foliage in his backyard. The film depicts Lopez agonizing over how to capture the light falling on the tree's leaves and his aspiration to complete the painting before the fruit falls at the end of the season. Meanwhile, the artist is distracted by unannounced visitors, the debate over the Gulf War, and the filmmaker. El Sol del Membrillo begins in a documentary form, with voiceover narration by Lopez, then slowly takes on other qualities: slightly staged narrative storytelling; hypnotic, dream-like nature film; and philosophical meditation on art and mortality. Barely released in the United States, the film nonetheless made it onto many stateside critics' "Best of the 1990s" lists, and won the International Critics' Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. |
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