Patricia Cronin's work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Venice Biennale; Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini Museo; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University; Brooklyn Museum; and the American Academy in Rome Art Gallery. Her work has been included in group shows NYC 1993: Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum; Watch Your Step, Flag Art Foundation; and Sh(out): Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland. Cronin is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and two Pollock Krasner Foundation Grants. She has also received support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and Anonymous Was A Woman. Cronin's works are in numerous collections including National Gallery of Art, Washington; Perez Art Museum Miami; and the Gallery of Modern Art and Kelvingrove Art Galleries and Museum in Glasgow. She is the author...
- 10/14/2015
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Seeking the Monkey KingIt is all too fitting that a film series focusing on “3D in the 21st Century” should feature the work of Ken Jacobs. More than any other single avant-garde filmmaker, Jacobs has explored the pulsating, tremulous frontier where images hit the eyes, and a great deal of his exploration over the last 30+ years—beginning with his experiments with the Pulfrich filter and his development of the dual projection “Nervous System”—has involved three-dimensional illusionism, that ambiguous perceptual space where flatness and depth wrestle in the optical mind. Historically, aesthetically, and technologically, it would make no sense to consider cinema in three dimensions without including Jacobs’ contributions.But there’s more at stake in Jacobs’ presence in the Bam’s 3D series. No mere formalist, Jacobs has been a tireless artistic whistleblower, documenting and cataloging the ugliest aspects of American culture. From blackface and animal torture in Star Spangled to Death,...
- 5/11/2015
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
Exclusive: Palme d’Or contender starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz sells to 20 territories.
Paris-based MK2 has closed a raft of deals on Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz, ahead of its premiere in Competition at Cannes.
The film has sold to Italy (Good Films), Benelux (De Filmfreak), Germany (Nfp), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Korea (Tcast), Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), and ex-Yugoslavia (Continental Film).
It has also been acquired for the Middle East (Falcon), Turkey (Yeni Bir) and airlines (Encore). As previously announced IFC Films has taken Us rights. Les Films du Losange will release the film in France at the end of August.
“We’re in talks on a lot of other territories, notably Latin America, Scandinavia, Russia and the UK,” said MK2’s sales chief Juliette Schrameck.
Set in the Swiss alpine lake district of Sils Maria, the picture...
Paris-based MK2 has closed a raft of deals on Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz, ahead of its premiere in Competition at Cannes.
The film has sold to Italy (Good Films), Benelux (De Filmfreak), Germany (Nfp), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Hong Kong (Golden Scene), Korea (Tcast), Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), and ex-Yugoslavia (Continental Film).
It has also been acquired for the Middle East (Falcon), Turkey (Yeni Bir) and airlines (Encore). As previously announced IFC Films has taken Us rights. Les Films du Losange will release the film in France at the end of August.
“We’re in talks on a lot of other territories, notably Latin America, Scandinavia, Russia and the UK,” said MK2’s sales chief Juliette Schrameck.
Set in the Swiss alpine lake district of Sils Maria, the picture...
- 5/9/2014
- ScreenDaily
News.
The Cinemateca Portuguesa needs your help: the institution is under threat unless the state steps in. There's a petition online where you can sign and voice your support.
"The Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon runs the risk of closing 'if there is no injection of money' soon by the Secretary of State for Culture, the Cinemateca director, Maria João Seixas, announced today.
'We need to have a decision by the end of the month,' the director warned, stressing that what's at stake is the conservation of the heritage of Portuguese cinema, the archives in Bucelas (Loures), the salaries of 71 workers, the programming, and the other operations of the Museu do Cinema." (translation by David Phelps).
Jumping to the top of our list of most anticipated films is Agnès Varda freshly announced five-part documentary From Here to Now, which will be released via VOD later this year. Here's a brief...
The Cinemateca Portuguesa needs your help: the institution is under threat unless the state steps in. There's a petition online where you can sign and voice your support.
"The Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon runs the risk of closing 'if there is no injection of money' soon by the Secretary of State for Culture, the Cinemateca director, Maria João Seixas, announced today.
'We need to have a decision by the end of the month,' the director warned, stressing that what's at stake is the conservation of the heritage of Portuguese cinema, the archives in Bucelas (Loures), the salaries of 71 workers, the programming, and the other operations of the Museu do Cinema." (translation by David Phelps).
Jumping to the top of our list of most anticipated films is Agnès Varda freshly announced five-part documentary From Here to Now, which will be released via VOD later this year. Here's a brief...
- 8/29/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
The Cinema Guild has picked up the U.S. digital and non-theatrical rights to "Agnes Varda From Here To There," a documentary series directed by Agnes Varda Made up of five 45-minute episodes, the series chronicles Varda's travels around the world as she examines the global art scene, meeting with different artists and filmmakers, including directors Alexander Sokurov and Carlos Reygadas, sculptor Christian Boltanski and his partner, artist Annette Messager. She visits with Chris Marker at his home shortly before he passed away, and dances with Manoel de Oliveira. "Agnes Varda From Here To There" originally aired in Europe on Arte in 2011. The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey of The Cinema Guild and Cecilia Rose of Cine-Tamaris, and the series will be released across multiple digital platforms later this year.
- 8/22/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Agnes Varda's New Five-Part Global Art Doc 'From Here to There' to Get VOD Release from Cinema Guild
The Cinema Guild has snapped up stateside VOD rights to Agnes Varda's new five-part documentary "From Here to There," which chronicles the French auteur's world travels as she surveys the global contemporary art scene, meeting with filmmakers and artists from an array of backgrounds. It will be released across multiple digital platforms later this year. Each of the five episodes is 45 minutes in length, totaling 225 minutes of glorious Varda documentary-making. The insatiable and indefatigable filmmaker and new Academy member, now 85, hits locales as diverse as Los Angeles and St. Petersburg, Lisbon and Mexico. She talks with Russian director Alexander Sokurov ("Russian Ark"), eats with sculptor Christian Boltanski and partner artist Annette Messager, and dances with Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira ("Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl," "The Strange Case of Angelica"). Last but certainly not least, she visits and films friend and fellow New Wave filmmaker Chris Marker ("La...
- 8/22/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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