ART & COPY Thursday, April 26th, 2012 8:30pm Doors open 9:00pm Art & Copy ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time — people who’ve profoundly impacted …
Proceed and Be Bold Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 8:30pm Doors open 9:00pm Proceed and Be Bold At 40 years of age, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. abandoned the traditional American Dream to follow his own. Unsatisfied with his comfortable, middle-class life, Amos traded in his computer for a printing press and his white collar for a …
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23TH, 2012 TYPEFACE Theme: Letterpress/Printmaking 8:30pm Doors open 9:00pm Typeface In celebration of printmaking held in conjunction with our Art of Letterpress show, we are showing the fascinating film Typeface. You can buy your own copy of Typeface HERE. In rural Wisconsin, a lone employee waits in a cavernous old museum for visitors …
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 2011 Who Gets to Call it Art? CURATED BY: Theo Auer THEME: Curators and Art 8:30pm Doors open 9:00pm Who Gets To Call it Art? Henry Geldzahler was one of the most important figures in 20th Century American art, even though he was not an artist himself. Geldzahler was a collector and …
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2011 EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Curated by COMPOUND STAFF Theme: Street Art 8:30pm Doors open 9:00pm Exit Through the Gift Shop The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its …
. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25TH, 2011 THE COOL SCHOOL CURATED BY DEWITT CHENG THEME: MODERN ART 8:30pm Doors open 9:00pm The Cool School THE COOL SCHOOL is an abject lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process. The film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery, which groomed …
THURSDAY, JULY 28TH, 2011 UNTITLED Curated by Dewitt Cheng Theme: Music/Art 8:30pm Doors open 9:00-9:15pm Introduction by Jonathan Parker (writer/director) and Catherine di Napoli (writer) 9:15pm Untitled A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art.Adam Goldberg (Two Days …
THURSDAY, JUNE 30TH, 2011 PAINTERS PAINTING Curated by Zach Clark Theme: Painting A candid history of the New York art scene, 1940-1970. Painters Painting is a vibrant collective portrait of the legendary figures who powered the tumultuous post-war New York art scene. Immediate and irreverent, the film has the feeling of an intimate conservation. De …
MARWENCOL THURSDAY, MAY 26TH, 2011 CURATED BY: THE COMPOUND STAFF THEME: ART AND HEALING After a terrible beating left Mark Hogancamp brain damaged, he began creating models of a fictional town, Marwencol, to process the trauma. Jeff Malmberg’s documentary explains how Hogancamp uses the elaborate dioramas as stand-ins for real life. When Hogancamp’s work attracts …