Whitney Museum of American Art: Watch and Listen: Films

Xavier Cha: Body Drama

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:08:11 -0400

In this video, senior curatorial assistant Diana Kamin discusses the video and performance installation Xavier Cha: Body Drama.

September 8, 2011Artist Talk and Film Screening: Kevin Jerome Everson

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:01:53 -0400

Artist Kevin Jerome Everson works in a variety of media, including film, painting, sculpture, and photography, exploring aspects of everyday life. Some of his films are constructed from appropriated news and film footage, bringing to light forgotten details of the experiences of African-Americans from the Great Migration to life in the 1960s and ‘70s. Everson, whose work was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, approaches the topics of race, sexuality, and economic conditions in observant and insightful ways. His latest exhibition at the Whitney Museum, More Than That: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson, explores his interest in labor and its relationship to class, identity, and the human body. Kevin Jerome Everson was joined in conversation by curator Chrissie Iles. Following the talk, Everson screened films from his latest project, the Tombigbee Chronicles.

Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools: Various Self Playing Bowling Games, 2011

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:19:02 -0400

In this video, artist Cory Arcangel and adjunct curator of new media arts Christiane Paul discuss Arcangel's work Various Self Playing Bowling Games (2011), on view in the exhibition Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools.

Curator Chrissie Iles in Conversation with Dennis Oppenheim

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:00:10 -0400

In this video, artist Dennis Oppenheim discusses with Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator Chrissie Iles the aggressive and rhythmic quality of the four-screen film installation Echo (1974), as well as its relationship to body art.

November 14, 2009Woman with a Movie Camera:Alice Guy Blaché Symposium

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:27:29 -0400

Trailblazer, inventor, and innovator, Alice Guy Blaché (1873-1968) was cinema’s first female director and first female film studio owner. Her legacy extends to groundbreaking filmmaking techniques, novel approaches to narrative, and original directorial style. This symposium explores that legacy.

Session Three: Emerging Media: Now and Then features Rick Altman, University of Iowa and Virginia Heffernan, New York Times and is moderated by Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum of American Art

November 14, 2009Woman with a Movie Camera:Alice Guy Blaché Symposium

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:27:12 -0400

Session One: Alice Guy Blaché as Film Pioneer features Terry Lawler, New York Women in Film and Television and Drake Stutesman and is moderated by Joan Simon, Whitney Museum of American Art.

November 14, 2009Woman with a Movie Camera:Alice Guy Blaché Symposium

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:26:51 -0400

Session One: Alice Guy Blaché as Film Pioneer features Alison McMahan, Homunculus Productions, LLC and Richard Koszarski, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and is moderated by Antonia Lant, New York University.

September 17, 2009Put Blood in the Music

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:29:16 -0400

A rare U.S. screening of Put Blood in the Music (1989), a documentary of the late 1980s downtown New York City music scene, featuring early performances by Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Hugo Largo, and Ambitious Lovers and appearances by Dan Graham, Glenn Branca, Karen Finley and others. Experimental filmmaker, video artist, and director Charles Atlas introduces his film.

April 30, 2009Seminars with Artists: Anthony McCall

Whitney Museum of American Art — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:25:37 -0400

A hybrid of performance, sculpture, and experimental cinema, Anthony McCall’s “solid light” film projections occupy a room through the interplay of light, fog, mist, and shadows. His installations engage viewers as active participants while challenging our perceptions of volume, space, and objecthood. In this program, McCall addresses how his interactive cinematic environments transform the physical and conceptual space between film and its audiences.

Since the late 1960s Seminars with Artists has provided a forum for intimate conversations with some of the most notable American artists of the day.

April 17, 2008Seminars with Artists: Olivier Mosset, Amy Granat, and Drew Heitzler

Whitney Museum of American Art — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:55:32 -0400

Painter Olivier Mosset and filmmakers Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler have collaborated on T.S.O.Y.W., a dual-screen projection that allegorically traces one man’s compulsory and ultimately futile search for his object of desire. Discussion moderated by Biennial co-curator Henriette Huldisch.

Launched in the late 1960s as one of the Museum’s first public programs, Seminars with Artists is an open forum for conversations with some of the most notable American artists.

January 30, 2008Conversations on Art: “Slow Fade to Black” with Margo Jefferson, Marco Williams, and Michelle Parkerson

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:34:13 -0400

Drawing on the issues raised by the exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, cultural critic Margo Jefferson and filmmakers Marco Williams and Michelle Parkerson consider cinematic portrayals of African-American history and film as a narrative device for interrogating stereotypes. Discussion moderated by art historian Kellie Jones.

November 15, 2007The Western in Myth and Metaphor

Whitney Museum of American Art — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:34:57 -0400

Join artist Piotr Uklanski, actress Katarzyna Figura, curator Chrissie Iles, and film critic Jim Hoberman as they contextualize Uklanski’s Summer Love within the classic American film genre of the Western. Discussion moderated by curator Chrissie Iles.