Held weekly in the evenings, the screenings are followed by a brief talk and discussion by the director or the artist. What makes a good documentary? How does the artist feel being the subject of a film?
The series consists of seminal but rarely screened films. The Spring 2008 Series will start at the end of February and will include Out of Chaos and Francis Bacon.
Louise Bourgeois, Directed by Nigel Finch, 1994 | |
| Date: | Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
| Time: | 00:00:00–18:30:00 |
| Arena Films spent four explosive days in Bourgeois New York Studio, in which the 85 year old sculptor showed herself to be more that a match for the cameras. Rows, arguments and flying teapots of boiling tea pepper discussions on the meaning of art and life. Talk by those involved in making the film follows the screening. | |
R B Kitaj, A Life, Directed by Jake Auerbach, 1994 | |
| Date: | Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
| Time: | 00:00:00–18:30:00 |
| Kitaj made some of the most immediate and accessible images of our age and was always disarmingly honest in print, however he was also fanatically keen to avoid the spontaneity of film. Though the most public of artists this is his only filmed interview. Talk by the Director follows the screening. | |
Claes Oldenburg, Directed By Gerry Fox, 1995 | |
| Date: | Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
| Time: | 00:00:00–18:30:00 |
| This irreverent documentary and retrospective of Claes Oldenburg’s work (including collaborations with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen) features an inside look at the artist's studio, the construction of his Giant Houseball in Petaluma, California, and interviews with leading dealers, critics, and artists such as Jim Dine and Roy Lichtenstein. Talk by the Director follows the screening. | |
Peter Blake, Masters of the Canvas, Directed by Mary Dickinson, 1992 | |
| Date: | Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
| Time: | 00:00:00–18:30:00 |
| Painter and wrestling fan, Peter Blake, confessed in an article that he’d love to be masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki. Poet / TV producer, Paul Yates, read the article and proceeded to arrange for Blake to paint Kendo’s portrait as a centrepiece for a film which he hoped would include an exclusive interview with Nagasaki, something never before achieved as he is known for never speaking or removing his mask. Talk by those involved in making the film follows the screening. | |
Allen Jones, Women and Men, Directed by Jake Auerbach, 2007 | |
| Date: | Thursday, 6 March 2008 |
| Time: | 00:00:00–18:30:00 |
| Allen Jones has produced some of the most startling and zestful images of the past five decades. However the man and his methods remain a mystery; this film explores the artist and his work with help from his only sitter Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell, his wife Deirdre Morrow, artist Gary Hume and, of course, Allen Jones himself. Talk by the Director and Allen Jones follows the screening. | |
Location
The Princes’s Drawing School
19–22 Charlotte Road
London
EC2A 3SG
Price
£5; £2.50 concessions
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