Film Screening: Our City Dreams
Thursday, July 15, 2010, 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Henry Auditorium
Henry Members- FREE
General Admission- $5
Filmed over two years, Our City Dreams is an invitation to visit the creative spaces of artists Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer and Swoon. Each of these Women possesses her own energy, drive and passion. They span different decades and represent diverse cultures, having one thing in common beyond making art: the city to which they have journeyed and now call home- New York. Director Chiara Clemente combines an intimate style of documentary filmmaking with the ephemera of city life surrounding each woman and the work she creates.
The documented years held many triumphs and challenges for each of the participating artists, Chiara Clemente has captured many moments in these artists’s lives, including Swoon’s first solo exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York, Ghada Amer’s return to her Egyptian homeland, Kiki Smith’s traveling retrospective, Marina Abramovic’s week-long series of performances at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Nancy Spero’s preparations of a new piece for the 2007 Venice Biennale.
After the film, join us for a special screening-related tour of I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith. If you would like to attend this tour, please RSVP first at . Tour begins at 8:30pm.
I Myself Have Seen It: Photography & Kiki Smith