Exclusive: Drake’s DreamCrew Entertainment, producers of Dear Mama, Euphoria, and Top Boy is pleased to announce its association as executive producers with Rosie Filmwaze LLC whose The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons receives its U.S. theatrical premiere at New York’s Film Forum today.
Directed by Judd Tully and Harold Crooks, and executive produced by Lisa Cortés, this documentary film provides a rich portrait of the brilliant and elusive African-American art star and provocateur, whose category-defying career radically seeks to fuse the dominant art culture and his own into a new one for the 21st century.
In the late ‘60s to mid-‘70s, David Hammons captivated the art world with his body prints (using his naked body as a printing plate in meditations on African-American existence), and later works including a snowball-selling...
Directed by Judd Tully and Harold Crooks, and executive produced by Lisa Cortés, this documentary film provides a rich portrait of the brilliant and elusive African-American art star and provocateur, whose category-defying career radically seeks to fuse the dominant art culture and his own into a new one for the 21st century.
In the late ‘60s to mid-‘70s, David Hammons captivated the art world with his body prints (using his naked body as a printing plate in meditations on African-American existence), and later works including a snowball-selling...
- 5/5/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
David Hammons in his Harlem Studio, 1980s Photo: Michael Blackwood, courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment
Harold Crooks and Judd Tully’s all-embracing and imaginative The Melt Goes On Forever The Art & Times Of David Hammons, shot by John Russell Foster and Christina Wairegi, edited by Louis-Martin Paradis with a score by Ramachandra Borcar has an impressive list of on-camera interviews, which include Lorna Simpson, Betye Saar, Papo Colo (co-founder of Exit Art with Jeanette Ingberman), Dominique Lévy, Suzanne Jackson, Robert Storr (Yale School of Art Professor of Painting/Printmaking), Robert Farris Thompson (author of Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy), Alana Heiss, Paul H-o, Jack Tilton, Steve Cannon (poet and founder of A Gathering of The Tribes gallery), Franklin Sirmans, Kellie Jones (Chair of the Department African American and African Diaspora Studies and Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art...
Harold Crooks and Judd Tully’s all-embracing and imaginative The Melt Goes On Forever The Art & Times Of David Hammons, shot by John Russell Foster and Christina Wairegi, edited by Louis-Martin Paradis with a score by Ramachandra Borcar has an impressive list of on-camera interviews, which include Lorna Simpson, Betye Saar, Papo Colo (co-founder of Exit Art with Jeanette Ingberman), Dominique Lévy, Suzanne Jackson, Robert Storr (Yale School of Art Professor of Painting/Printmaking), Robert Farris Thompson (author of Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy), Alana Heiss, Paul H-o, Jack Tilton, Steve Cannon (poet and founder of A Gathering of The Tribes gallery), Franklin Sirmans, Kellie Jones (Chair of the Department African American and African Diaspora Studies and Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art...
- 5/3/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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