Showing posts with label Documentary Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentary Film. Show all posts

7.26.2016

NICHOLAS SYRACUSE: Highway Traveler

HWY series © Nicholas Syracuse

TRAVELER series © Nicholas Syracuse

TRAVELER series © Nicholas Syracuse

TRAVELER series © Nicholas Syracuse

"Nicholas Syracuse’s beautiful portraits of drifters, train hoppers, runaways and hobos are all self-portraits in a way. There is a deep sense of camaraderie between Syracuse and his subjects, both sharing the itch to remain in constant motion.” – Director’s Sam Roden and Nick Hartanto

Nicholas Syracuse, born in Arizona and raised in the DC area, studied photography at the Corcoran School of Art in DC. and The Northwest Photographic Center in Seattle. His largest series of photographs is his ongoing "Highway" project, with photographs from Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, Texas, South Carolina, Indiana, and many points in between. Director’s Sam Roden and Nick Hartanto made a feature documentary film "TRAVELER" about his work, that premiered to a sold-out crowd at the Ashland Independent Film Festival in Ashland Oregon last April. I came across his work recently and wanted to share some of it.

TRAVELER series © Nicholas Syracuse

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12.17.2014

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER: Academy Award Best Documentary Feature Shortlist / MoMA Screening


FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
Academy Award Best Documentary Feature Shortlist!
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel. Producer: Jeff Garlin

The Academy's documentary shortlist includes FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, directed by John Maloof and  Charlie Siskel, now considered a competitive frontrunner in this race! 

"In FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, the film unfolds like a detective story, Maloof and filmmaker Charlie Siskel reveal Maier’s mysterious life as a nanny and a loner through the recollections of her various employers and their children, and as other details of her past come to light. Through the reconstruction of a large portion of Maier’s collection of over 100,000 photographs and interviews with other well-known American street photographers and collectors, the film challenges our notions of the artist and the creative act, and how art is made and marketed. This is Maloof's and Siskel's remarkable directorial debut.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, NYC


Photograph © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection

Photograph © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection

Vivian Maier: Self Portrait
Photograph © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection

Directors Charlie Siskel and John Maloof

Charlie Siskel is a television and film producer. His producing credits include the Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, and Religulous. Finding Vivian Maier is his directorial debut.

John Maloof discovered the first negatives of Vivian Maier's work in 2007. Author of Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits and Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found, Finding Vivian Maier is his directorial debut.


The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, NYC