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WILHELM SASNAL/MATRIX 219: |
| SUN NOV 20 2005, 4:00 Gallery Talk and Members' Opening Reception Wilhelm Sasnal, Jordan Kantor, and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson Gallery 1 Artist Wilhelm Sasnal, former MATRIX Curator Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, and special guest Jordan Kantor will engage in a gallery conversation about Sasnal's recent work. Artist Jordan Kantor is an associate professor at California College of the Arts and former assistant curator of drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. SUN FEB 5 2006, 1:00 Special Screening: Pare Lorentz's The River (1938) PFA Theater Admission Free In conjunction with Wilhelm Sasnal's MATRIX exhibition, BAM/PFA presents a screening of Pare Lorentz's 1938 film The River. Lorentz's documentary on the Mississippi, commissioned by the U.S. Resettlement Administration to promote the dam-building work of the Tennessee Valley Authority, is both a poetic tribute to the beauty of the American landscape and a critique of the mismanagement of natural resources. Featuring a magnificent score by Virgil Thompson and a free-verse script by Lorentz himself (the basis for the book that inspired Wilhelm Sasnal), The River is widely considered a masterwork of American nonfiction filmmaking; its images of the great flood of 1937 and its sharp commentary on the poverty of the region give it renewed relevance today. The free screening at the PFA Theater will also include Sasnal's film for MATRIX. |
