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The Gardener is a film that reflects upon the meaning of gardening and its impact on our lives. Co-presented with Hamptons Doc Fest and in conjunction with Landscape Pleasures, the documentary features the influential gardener and plantsman Frank Cabot shortly before his passing at the age of 86. Cabot recounts his personal quest for perfection at Les Quatre Vents, his 20-acre English style garden and summer estate, which he opened to a film crew for the first time in 2009.
Nestled amid the rolling hills of the Charlevoix County in Quebec, Les Quatre Vents has become one of the worldâs foremost private gardens. Created over the course of 75 years and three generations, this horticultural masterpiece of the 21st century is an enchanted place of beauty and surprise. Through remarks by Cabot and his family, and with the participation of gardening experts and writers, the film looks back at this remarkable manâs personal story and the artistic philosophy that gave birth to one of the greatest gardens in the world.
About the Director
SĂ©bastien Chabot (b. 1976, Sainte-Florence, Quebec) is a Canadian writer, cinematographer, and producer, who published his debut novel Ma mĂšre est une marmotte in 2004. He was awarded the Prix Jovette-Bernier in 2006 for his sequel, LâAngoisse des poulets sans plumes, and was recently shortlisted for the Governor Generalâs Award for French-language fiction for the novel Noir mĂ©tal. Discussing The Gardener in a feature article in Point of View Magazine, Chabot said that working with Frank Cabot was about cultivating a film that would be as finely crafted as the garden it depicts. âDoing a personal movie about oneâs personal garden might be the best way to reveal someone.â Chabot received his education at the UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă Rimouski and the UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă MontrĂ©al. He is a professor of literature at the CĂ©gep de Rimouski.
About Alicia Whitaker
Alicia Whitaker is an executive leadership coach and consultant who has worked to support her gardening habit for decades. A home gardener and active participant in the East End gardening community, she is past president (2019-2021) and long-time board member of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, and recently joined the Board of Directors of the Westhampton Garden Club where she serves as Chair of Horticulture and member of the Pollinator Team responsible for a fledgling Pollinator Garden at the Quogue Library. She is co-author, with Betsy Pinover Schiff, of The Sidewalk Gardens of New York (Monacelli Press, 2016) which describes the many ways NYC has become a greener city in the past two decades. Whitaker became a Master Gardener in 2021 after completing a course offered by Cornell Cooperative Extension Service. She holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
About Thackston Crandall
Thackston Crandall is a licensed Landscape Architect and Senior Associate with LaGuardia Design Group, located in Watermill NY and NYC. As a member of the LDG team, Thackston enjoys collaborating with colleagues and clients on a range of projects including residential, commercial, and cultural landscapes. Thackston received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Clemson University and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Cornell University.
Friday Nights are made possible, in part, by Presenting Sponsor:
Additional support provided by Weill Cornell Medicine â Southampton and The Corcoran Group
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Conversation and Q & A in the Lichtenstein Theater with Alicia G. Longwell, Ph.D., Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education and Larissa Goldston, Director of Universal Limited Art Editions
Exhibition open April 24 to July 10, 2022
Organized in four thematic sections, An Art of Changes follows Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) through the years as he revises and recycles key motifs, including the American flag, numerals, and the English alphabet, which he describes as âthings the mind already knows.â Some works explore the artistâs tools, materials, and techniques. Others delve into signature aspects of his distinctive mark-making, including flagstones and hatch marks, while later pieces teem with autobiographical imagery. The prints will be augmented by a small selection of paintings and sculptures, underscoring Johnsâs fascination with the changes that occur when an image is reworked in another medium.
https://parrishart.org/exhibitions/jasper-johns-an-art-of-changes/
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A conversation with executive producer Marquise Stillwell; producer, cinematographer, and designer/animator Petter Ringbom; and co-producer Ashley Lukasik; moderated by AndrĂĄs SzĂĄntĂł, author, cultural strategist, and Art Basel Conversations host. Taking place before the in-person screening of
The New Bauhaus - The life and legacy of Moholy-Nagy
2019, Documentary, 85 minutes
Director/Producer: Alysa Nahmias
In 1937, LĂĄszlĂł Moholy-Nagy came to Chicago to start the New Bauhaus, an art institute that aimed to pioneer the development and dissemination of modern design. The filmâs narrative weaves original interviews with archival footage, voiceover, and stylized filming featuring Hans-Ulrich Obrist. The result is a new perspective view of a man who was ahead of his time and is increasingly relevant in todayâs contemporary art and design discourses. Following recent retrospectives of Moholy-Nagyâs work at major museums, this film offers a more accessible and intimate, emotional journey through his life and his work as an artist, designer, visionary, and teacher. Moholy-Nagy believed that designing was ânot a profession but an attitude,â he brought together art students and design studentsâsomething unheard of at the timeâand challenged them to look at the world differently.
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A conversation with Senior Curator Corinne Erni, Filmmaker and Artist Jill Magid, and Dia Art Foundation Associate Curator Matilde Guidelli-Guidi. Before the screening of The Proposal, co-presented with Hamptons Doc Fest, in collaboration with Dia.
The Proposal
Known as âthe artist among architectsâ, Luis BarragĂĄn is among the worldâs most celebrated architects of the 20th century. Upon his death in 1988, much of his work was locked away in a Swiss bunker, hidden from the worldâs view. In an attempt to resurrect BarragĂĄnâs life and art, boundary redefining artist Jill Magid creates a daring proposition that becomes a fascinating artwork in itselfâa high-wire act of negotiation that explores how far an artist will go to democratize access to art.
About Jill MagidAmerican artist Jill Magidâs work is deeply ingrained in her lived experience, exploring and blurring the boundaries between art and life. Through her performance-based practice, Magid has initiated intimate relations with a number of organizations and structures of authority. She explores the emotional, philosophical, and legal tensions between the individual and âprotectiveâ institutions, such as intelligence agencies or the police. To work alongside or within large organizations, Magid makes use of institutional quirks, systemic loopholes that allow her to make contact with people âon the insideâ. Her work tends to be characterized by the dynamics of seduction, the resulting narratives often taking the form of a love story. It is typical of Magidâs practice that she follows the rules of engagement with an institution to the letter â sometimes to the point of absurdity.
2018, Documentary, 83 minutesDirector: Jill MagidFriday Nights are made possible, in part, by Presenting Sponsor:
Additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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Inspiring lecture by award-winning horticulturist, landscape designer, photographer, and lecturer, Patrick Cullina.
Patrick CullinaGardens Outside of the Frame and Page â Inspirations for and Elements of Dynamic Landscapes Beyond the PicturesqueAn exploration of the nature of dynamic landscapes and their essential elements, a discussion of the regional ecologies that inform them, and an argument for the real art of landscapes â beneficial outcomes that exceed the constraints of traditional aesthetic notions.
Patrick Cullina is an award-winning horticulturist, landscape designer, photographer, lecturer, and organizational consultant with more than twenty-five years of experience in the landscape field. He runs a design and consulting business with projects across the country that is dedicated to the innovative and sensitive integration of plants and materials into a diverse range of compelling designsâdrawing inspiration from both the natural world and constructed environments alike. Previously, he was the founding Vice President of Horticulture and Park Operations for New York Cityâs High Line; the Vice President of Horticulture, Operations and Science Research at Brooklyn Botanic Garden; and the Associate Director of the Rutgers University Gardens in affiliation with the schoolâs Department of Landscape Architecture. Throughout his career, he has lectured throughout the U.S. and abroad for universities, public gardens, garden clubs, horticultural organizations, museums, libraries and professional organizations on the subjects of plants, living environments, horticulture, landscape design, landscape maintenance and the urban experience.
Landscape Pleasures 2021 is made possible, in part, with support from Grand Patrons Lillian and Joel Cohen and Whitmores; Grand Sponsors Linda Hackett and Melinda Hackett/ CAL Foundation, LaGuardia Design Group and Summerhill Landscapes; and Grand Participants Gardeneering/Tish Rehill, Elizabeth and David Granville-Smith, and Piazza Horticultural. Hamptons Cottages & Gardens is the media sponsor.
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Inspiring lecture by renowned landscape designer, Deborah Nevins.
The Stavros Niarchos Park in AthensA 40 acre sustainable, drought tolerant, park and an education working in horticultural zones 4 to 13.
Deborah Nevins founded the New York-based landscape design firm Deborah Nevins & Associates over 25 years ago. Her firmâs work includes the 40-acre Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center and Park in Athens (a collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop) and the recently completed campus expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, including new buildings by Steven Holl Architects. DNA also designed the Pritzker Garden in the Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago. The firmâs extensive residential work includes significant gardens and estates throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and Europeâand many on Long Island. DNAâs work has been recognized for its design and sustainability by major publications and landscape associations, including a leadership award from the International Green Roof Association for the SNFCC in Athens. A historian of landscape and architecture, Nevins lectures often, and her writing has appeared in numerous books, journals, and periodicals. She lives in East Hampton and is a board member of Long House Reserve. Landscape Pleasures 2021 is made possible, in part, with support from Grand Patrons Lillian and Joel Cohen and Whitmores; Grand Sponsors Linda Hackett and Melinda Hackett/ CAL Foundation, LaGuardia Design Group and Summerhill Landscapes; and Grand Participants Gardeneering/Tish Rehill, Elizabeth and David Granville-Smith, and Piazza Horticultural. Hamptons Cottages & Gardens is the media sponsor. -
Join Chief Curator Alicia Longwell and abstract painter Lucien Smith, whose 10 large-scale paintings from his 2013 Southampton Suite are currently on view, for an illustrated talk.
Lucien Smith (b.1989) is best known for his process-based works that employ both accidental and improvisational marks to create loose, all-over compositions. Organized by Alicia Longwell, Lucien Smith: Southampton Suite brings the artistâs Rain Paintings series to conclusion with the 10 large-scale paintings created in a plein air studio that he constructed on the East End during the summer of 2013. With the 9 x 7 ft acrylic on unprimed canvas Southampton Suite paintings, the artist created an immersive environment that continues his quest to â. . .replicate a natural process with manmade tools.â The ten works on view here from 2013 have never been shown as a group.
Smithâs paintings, made by filling an empty fire extinguisher with paint and spraying the canvas, became widely known soon after his 2011 graduation from Cooper Union. What appealed to Smith was the way he was able to replicate a natural processârainâwith a manmade tool. For the first Rain Paintings series, Murmur of the Heart, he used blue and yellow paint; after this initial investigations he began to use a monochromatic approach, taking a cue from the traditional depiction of rain in Japanese woodblock prints.
Friday Nights at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by Presenting Sponsor:
Additional support provided by Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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April 24th, 2020
In an article published recently in artnet.com that prompted responses from around the world, cultural strategist AndrĂĄs SzĂĄntĂł posited the urgency of museums to lead the way to reopen as soon as is safely possible, providing a haven in a time of trauma and disruption and signaling a return to normalcy.
In this live-stream conversation with Parrish Art Museum Director Terrie Sultan, SzĂĄntĂł discusses the critical need for the arts in periods of crisis, a practical plan for the reopening of museums, and the long-term changes in their role and function.
About AndrĂĄs SzĂĄntĂłAndrĂĄs SzĂĄntĂł, Ph.D. is the founder of New York-based AndrĂĄs SzĂĄntĂł LLC, which provides strategic counsel to museums, cultural organizations, commercial brands, and educational institutions worldwide in all phases of the conceptualization and implementation of strategic plans and cultural initiatives. Clients have included: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Sculpture Center, Pioneer Works, MSU Broad Museum, Michigan State University, Kunstmuseum Basel, and The Dallas Museum of Art, among other nonprofit institutions. The firm is also behind many of the worldâs leading brand initiatives in the arts including those of Audemars Piguet, Absolut, BMW, and Rolls-Royce. SzĂĄntĂł is a strategic advisor to Art Basel and is a long-time moderator of its Art Basel Conversations series.
SzĂĄntĂł is an influential writer and researcher in the fields of art, media, cultural policy, arts sponsorship, and philanthropy. Author and editor of numerous books and research reports, he has been a contributor to The Art Newspaper, The New York Times, Artforum, and many leading publications. AndrĂĄs has taught art business and marketing at the Sothebyâs Institute of Art and served as director of the National Arts Journalism Program and the NEA Arts Journalism Institute, both at Columbia University.
Friday Nights at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by Presenting Sponsor: Bank of America
Additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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April 10th, 2020
Last September, the Parrish Art Museum invited OptoSonic Tea to present an evening-length performance, featuring 18 of the worldâs most innovative video and sound artists to interact with the architecture and landscape of the Museum. The durational and site-specific group improvisation featured visual artists performing live in different areas outside of the Museum building, while live musicians and sound artists performed coordinated and spatialized works by composer and Diapason Gallery founder/director Michael J. Schumacher. The spectacle allowed the over 400 visitors to experience the Herzog & de Meuron designed building in entirely new ways.
Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, hosted a conversation with OptoSonic Tea founders, intermedia artists Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer, about the performance at the Parrish, their work during Coronavirus, and upcoming projects with Sarah Weaver from NowNets Art who joined the conversation.
OptoSonic Tea was conceived in 2006 as a series of salon-style meetings that explore various forms of live visuals and their interaction with live audio, followed by an informal discussion about the artistsâ practices over a cup of green tea.
OptosSonic Tea @ The Parrish was presented on September 27, 2019 and was curated specifically for the Museumâs Platform series.
View highlights from the performance here: https://vimeo.com/379339796
VISUAL ARTISTS included Benton C Bainbridge, Bradley Eros, Andy Guhl, Kit Fitzgerald, Asi Föcker, CHiKA, Chris Jordan (cj), Katherine Liberovskaya, LoVid (Kyle Lapidus and Tali Hinkis), and Ursula Scherrer.
SOUND ARTISTS included Marcia Bassett, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Shelley Hirsch, Laura Ortman, Emma Souharce, Michael J. Schumacher, Keiko Uenishi, and Shane Weeks.
Platform:OptoSonic Tea @ the Parrish was made possible, in part, by the generous support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, mediaThe foundation inc., and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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December 14, 2018
The Parrish hosted a special screening of the short film Keith Sonnier - Sketches to Neon, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Lana Jokel, and artist Keith Sonnier. Moderated by Alicia Longwell, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator.
Jokelâs 15 minute pilot illuminates the history and creative process of Sonnier, a pioneering figure in the fields of conceptual, post-minimal, video, and performance art who radically reframed the function of sculpture. Filmed at two locations in the Hamptons, the documentary follows Sonnier and Jokel to a local autobody shop where the artist is transforming a 1950s Oldsmobile into a mobile neon sculpture. The second location is Sonnierâs Bridgehampton studio, where he and Jokel discuss his process of transforming sketches and maquettes into neon works.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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March 6th, 2020
As part of The Artistâs Lens series, co-presented with Hamptons Doc Fest. The Parrish hosted a special screening of Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack, directed by Deborah Shaffer. Followed by a conversation with the artist Audrey Flack and Parrish Director Terrie Sultan. Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack gives an intimate look at the life and creative process of Parrish collection artist, sculptor, painter, feminist, and rebel Audrey Flack whose 70-year career evolved from abstract expressionism in the 1950s to photorealism in the 1970s. One of the first women ever included in the famed Jansonâs History of Art, Flack, at 88, is still creating with her unique style and indomitable spirit.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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February 22nd, 2020
The Parrish hosted a special performance of 4 Little Girls: Moving Portraits of the American Civil Rights Movement, by the Edge School of the Arts (ESOTA), co-presented with the Hamptons United Methodist Church and with support from the Jerome Foundation for Jerome Artist Fellow, Kerri Edge. Followed by a conversation with artistic director Kerri Edge, the performers and special guest tap dancer Omar Edwards, moderated by Parrish Director Terrie Sultan.
4 Little Girls: Moving Portraits of the American Civil Rights Movement is an experimental narrative film by Kerri Edge that infuses historical authenticity, contemporary dance movements (tap, modern dance, hip hop, and ballet) choreographed to spoken word and 60âs protest songs to recant the horrific story of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, the four young black girls who were violently murdered by the Ku Klux Klan when a bomb exploded in the basement of the Black 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963.
The story unfolds through the imaginative interpretations of present-day performing arts students whose teacher challenges them to go back in time and recreate the moments leading up to what Martin Luther King Jr. described as, âone of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.â
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February 14th, 2020
As part of The Artistâs Lens series, co-presented with Hamptons Doc Fest. The Parrish hosted a special screening of Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own, directed by Daniel Traub. Followed by a conversation with Ursula Von Rydingsvard and Parrish Director Terrie Sultan. Ursula is a New York-based contemporary artist whose artworks encompasses sculpture and two-dimensional imagery. Her work, rooted in the sculpting of raw cedar, have been exhibited in galleries, museums and public spaces throughout the world. The film follows, from beginning to final installation, various recent commissions including those for MIT and Princeton University. It also explores her early struggles, passion and profound drive to become an artist. Told mostly through her own voice, the film includes interviews with colleagues, family members and close friends who offer additional perspective on her life and work.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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February 7th, 2020
The Parrish hosted a special screening of Lifeline: Clyfford Still. Followed by a conversation with director Dennis Scholl and artist Deborah Buck, moderated by Parrish Director Terrie Sultan. Clyfford Still, one of the strongest, most original contributors to abstract expressionism, walked away from the commercial artworld at the height of his career. Extremely disciplined, principled, and prolific, Still left behind a treasure trove of works like no other major artist in history. With a wonderful mosaic of archival material, found footage and audio recorded by the artist himself, Lifeline paints a picture of a modern icon, his uncompromising creative journey and the price of independence.
Watch the Interview Here: https://vimeo.com/397035095
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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March 8th, 2019
Join artists Mel Kendrick and Mary Heilmann for an illuminating talk about the works of fellow artist Louisa Chase that are part of the Parrish Permanent Collection. Moderated by Parrish Director Terrie Sultan.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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January 17th, 2020
As part of The Artistâs Lens series, co-presented with Hamptons Doc Fest. The Parrish hosted a special screening of Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine. Followed by a conversation with Amei Wallach and Parrish Director Terrie Sultan. Filmed with unparalleled access between 1993 and 2007, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial, and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day. Her process is on full display in this extraordinary documentary.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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January 10th, 2020
Join this multi-generational group of artists who all address environmental issues from different vantage pointsâJuror Lillian Ball, her two selectees Scott Bluedorn and Janet Culbertson, and Irina Alimanestianu (selected by Alexis Rockman)âas they converse with ecologist Carl Safina about how art and science can interact to draw attention to these issues. Moderated by Corinne Erni, Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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May 5th, 2019
Thomas Joshua Cooper in conversation with Parrish Director Terrie Sultan on his exhibit Thomas Joshua Cooper: Refuge (May 5, 2019 to July 28, 2019) Throughout his career, Thomas Joshua Cooper has been preoccupied with water as a focal point for his abiding fascination with the landscape, historical and cultural geography, cartography, and the problems of picture-making. Thomas Joshua Cooper: Refuge, features more than 49 photographs, anchored by the 20 images Cooper made along the coastal and inland waterways and interior landscapes throughout the East End of Long Islandâs North and South Forks, and Shelter Island. These pictures are framed by a precise selection of pictures made over the course of several years along sites on the Hudson River as it passes through Essex, Warren, Saratoga, Rensselaer, and Dutchess counties, and a select group from Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts, which Cooper includes to emphasize his notion of refuge, immigration and settlement. The images of the East End of Long Island were made during Cooperâs 10-day Parrish Art Museum residency.
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May 24th, 2019
Join photographer Renate Aller and Parrish Art Museum Director Terrie Sultan as they discuss Allerâs new book, Mountain Interval. Aller is a contemporary photographer from Germany based in New York. As a child, she spent vacations visiting, hiking, and photographing the mountains of Austria, Germany, and Italy, beginning her lifelong appreciation for nature and the outdoors. Her latest project includes mountain peaks from six continents. These photographs were taken from locations as high as 22,500 feet (adjacent to Mount Everest) to the European glaciers and mountain peaks of her childhood vacations. The subject matter is monumental, yet the images connect the viewer in a way that is not overpowering. Aller engages us with these giants in all their detail, the veins and textures of the rocks in their constantly transient state. She isolates the mountain from its expected surroundings, using and presenting the familiar and the known in an intimate way, relating to parallel realities from different locations, opening up conversations between the different (political) landscapes in which we live.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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November 15th, 2019
As part of the OLA Film Festival, organized by the OrganizaciĂłn Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, the Parrish hosted a special screening of Before the Ferry Arrives, followed by a conversation with Director Juan Caunedo DomĂnguez, live from Madrid, Spain. The film, a directing debut of Caunedo, alongside Vladimir GarcĂa and RaĂșl Escobar Delgado, is a dark comedy that explores the sense of expectation and ambiguity experienced by Cubans when it was announced in 2015 that, after more than 50 years, a ferry service would resume between U.S. and Cuba, Before the Ferry Arrives is a smart portrait of a near-future Havana still in the midst of the restoration of U.S.-Cuba relations. The film, bold in form and structure, mixes elements of animation with live action, experimental and documentary film.
Our Friday Night programs at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by presenting sponsor Bank of America, with additional support provided by The Corcoran Group and Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder.
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