As part of Asheville Art Museum’s commitment to new media and education through film, they have curated a series of art house documentaries that intimately explore the lives and careers of several artists.
These films, which range in length and documentary style, were created by independent filmmakers and serve as serious artistic and, at times, experimental works. Documentary films, strictly speaking, are non-fictional, factual works of art, sometimes known as cinema verite.
The ten films presented in the New Media Gallery over a ten-week period serve as both educational tools to enhance our understanding of American Abstraction, as well as artistic representations of the subject matter as presented by the filmmakers. In particular, the directors have taken creative license to present true stories in a manner in which he or she seems fitting; often blurring the line between documentary and narrative with elements that are expressive, poetic, rhetorical, historical and subjective.
The films listed below will be screened daily at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
JANUARY 13–18
Robert Motherwell and the New York School: Storming the Citadel
(2010) by Catherine Tatge, 55 minutes
JANUARY 20–25
Jules Olitski: Modern Master
by Andy Reichsman and Kate Purdie,
22 minutes
JANUARY 27–FEBRUARY 1
Joseph Fiore: The Nature of the Artist
(2013) by Kane-Lewis Productions,
30 minutes
FEBRUARY 2–8
Frankenthaler: Toward a New Climate
(1978) by Perry Miller Adato, 28 minutes
FEBRUARY 10–15
George Bireline
(2002) by Neal Hutcheson, 28 minutes
FEBRUARY 17–22
Julian Stanczak and Op Art: The Perceptive Eye
(2001) by Barbara Stanczak, 60 minutes
FEBRUARY 24–MARCH 1
Painters Painting
(1973) by Emile de Antonio, 116 minutes
MARCH 3–8
Sam Gilliam Interview
(2004) by Netropolitan, 44 minutes
MARCH 10–15
American Art of the 1960s
(1972) by Michael Blackwood, 57 minutes
(Image: Ivan Chermayeff Untitled, collage on paper, 23 x 18 inches. Asheville Art Museum Collection. Gift of Mary and Tom Rodman. 2005.25.10.29.)