52nd City

SLAM: New Docs Series Announced

Upcoming Films at the Saint Louis Art Museum Auditorium. Each Film: $5 ($3 Members).

ARTISTS: CINEMATIC PORTRAITS
Join us for a series of documentary films that paint dramatic portraits of living artists.

Sunday, October 9, 5:00 pm
David Hockney - The Colors of Music
(2003, 85 minutes)
Directed by Maryte Kavaliauskas and Seth Schneidman
This film presents a rare and intimate portrait of Hockney’s private passion—designing for the stage. Through his use of lighting and color, Hockney’s
innovations transform opera into a magical experience, one to watch as well as hear.

Sunday, October 16, 5:00 pm
Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century
(2004, 58 minutes)
Produced by PBS
This Emmy award-winning series presents contemporary artists sharing their personal art-making philosophies. This preview of the upcoming season
features the artists Roni Horn, Matthew Ritchie, Richard Tuttle, and Fred Wilson. This event is presented in collaboration with Art21, a non-profit contemporary art organization that produces the PBS series, Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century.

Robin Clark, curator of contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum will introduce the program.

Sunday, October 23, 5:00 pm
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994, 105 minutes)
Directed by Freida Lee Mock
At the age of 21, Maya Lin, an architecture student and artist, created one of the most debated and riveting pubic monuments of our time, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This Academy award-winning film is a portrait of Lin and her creative process.

Sunday, October 30, 5:00 pm
Running Fence (1978, 58 minutes)
A film by David Maysles, Charolette Zwerin, Albert Maysles
Christo in Paris (1990, 58 minutes)
A film by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke
These two award-winning films meticulously document the large-scale environmental work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The films take an early and later work and follow the artists as they create, conflict, build, and bond with the communities where the work is placed.

Sunday, November 6, 5:00 pm
Rivers and Tides, Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
(2001, 90 minutes)
Directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer
For one year, director Thomas Riedelsheimer followed artist Andy Goldsworthy as he traveled to remote locations and created art that would eventually
collapse, disappear, dissolve, or drift away.