Woodman Film Series - February

Please join us Saturday afternoons at 2pm for the Woodman Film Series which takes place in the basement of Michael Gibson Gallery. Admission is free.

Saturday, February 18th, 2pm -- "Under the Great White Northern Lights"

In 2007 the legendary American duo White Stripes toured Canada. Besides playing the usual venues they challenged themselves and played in buses, cafés and for Indian tribal elders. Music video director Emmett Malloy followed the band and managed to capture both the special tour, extraordinary concert versions of the band's minimalist, raw, blues-inspired rock songs and the special relationship between the extroverted Jack White and the introspective Meg White - a formerly married couple who for a long time claimed to be siblings. The film makes striking use of the band's concert colors: red, white and black.

93 minutes.

Saturday, February 25th, 2pm -- "My Kid Could Paint That"

The documentary follows the early artistic career of Marla Olmstead, a young girl from Binghamton, NY who gains fame first as a child prodigy painter of abstract art, and then becomes the subject of controversy concerning whether she truly completed the paintings herself or did so with her parents' assistance and/or direction.

82 minutes.

Saturday, March 3rd, 2pm -- "Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies"

Martin Scorsese's cinematic tour through the effects of the technological revolution, specifically the invention of aviation, the creation of cinema and their interdependent influence on artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. With narration by Scorsese, and interviews with art scholars and artists including Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl, the film looks at the collision between film and art at the turn of the 20th Century and helps us to realize cinema's continuing influence on the art of our time.

62 minutes.

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