Three Artist Films at Jersey Art Book Fair

Presented by DoppelHouse
Sunday May 2, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Jersey Art Book Fair at Mana Contemporary

UNFURLED

UNFURLED trailer, directed by Gail Willumsen, from Gemini Productions

UNFURLED: At mid-career, queer artist Eve Wood still chases success. “The art world is a horrible business, so why do I keep doing this?” With a solo exhibition looming, she waits in anxious anticipation. “Unfurled” explores the creative process through the intimate portrait of an artist and poet at work in her studio, her influences, and the personal story that are underneath the images. She says her work allows her “to translate myself back to myself” and navigate the rocky landscape of art and personal relationships. This is the East Coast Premiere of the film loved by audiences at OUT on Film Atlanta, California Women’s Film Festival (1st place documentary), and the Golden State Film Festival, among others.

Have a look at Diane Arbus Goes Shopping, Eve Wood’s new collection of poems, copublished by DoppelHouse and Smart Art Press.

JONAS MEKAS, SHIVER OF MEMORY

Clip from the Jonas Mekas 1972 documentary film, Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, which was selected to the National Film Registry in 2006 by the Library of Congress. This is one of several moments in Mekas’s filmography discussed in Shiver of Memory.

Excerpts from a Film Secession interview with Peter Delpeut, found footage filmmaker and former director of The Eye (Amsterdam), reveal his personal search to understand his fallen hero, Jonas Mekas. The discussion of memory and film approaches what poetic truth can be projected through the medium of film, which both obfuscates and reveals the human sensation of time and trauma. The book by Delpeut on the subject, Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory will be available at the fair in limited edition.

GO WEST, YOUNG MAN!

Go West, Young Man! trailer, directed by Peter Delpeut and Mart Dominicus.

Released in 2003, the hundredth anniversary of the first Western, The Great Train Robbery, this documentary film inspired by the history of the film genre is a cinematic journey through the landscapes and nostalgia of the Western. Dilapidated film sets temper the iconography of the Grand Tetons and Monument Valley in this elegiac exploration of movie-making.

The Long Landscape, director Peter Delpeut’s memoir of a 4350-mile long-distance bike trip across the South and Southwest, starting from Disney World and ending in Las Vegas, inspired Go West, Young Man and is now available from DoppelHouse.