Archive for the 'Film' Category
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Clayton Patterson Captures New York
For the past 30 years, downtown documentarian, Clayton Patterson, has been photographing and filming the history of New York City’s Lower East Side. From the gritty heyday of the 1980s, to recent post-Guliani gentrification, Patterson has captured it all. As stated by the New York Times, “He can’t stop, even after more than a dozen arrests by camera-shy police officers. He has amassed a huge day-by-day visual history of the area, told mainly through unpretentious portraits of its myriad and diverse faces: tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggers, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots.”
Now the artist’s work is the is the subject of a new documentary film, Captured, which offers a rare glimpse into one of the most historically relevant archives chronicling modern New York City. While there are no distribution plans set for the movie, keep an eye out for select showings. Next up will be an August 22nd screening at the New Museum in New York, followed by a Q + A session with Patterson and the film makers. The viewing coincides with museum’s Bowery Artist Tribute, an ongoing project documenting artists who have lived and worked around the Bowery in lower Manhattan.
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
NYC::Beautiful Losers Movie Premier
This Friday, August 8th, marks the theatrical premier of Beautiful Losers at the IFC Theater in New York City. The film focuses on the group of artists first popularized by the traveling exhibitions spearheaded by Iconoclast Editions beginning in 2004, including Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Ed Templeton, Thomas Campbell, Mike Mills, Harmonie Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, and Shepard Fariey. It is hard to argue the influences these artists and their collective aesthetics have had on popular culture, youth lifestyle, advertising, and media over the past decade. Given the current co-opted, over-saturated state of graffiti, skateboarding, punk, hip-hop, and just about every other subculture under the sun, we hope this film will awaken (and re-awaken) some to these originators and to the artistic purity and integrity that once existed within these cultures. Director (and Beautiful Loser co-founder) Aaron Rose and several artists featured in the film will be present at the Friday and Saturday 8:20 and 10:20 pm screenings. Expect to be inspired and walk out with a smile on your face. Tix here