Inside Out
“Agnes Varda knows the value of a camera. The 89-year-old director was a pioneer of French New Wave filmmaking and has strived to find inventive forms of storytelling throughout her career. In her new documentary Faces Places, Varda teams up with the enigmatic photographer and visual artist JR to follow and participate in his Inside Out project, in which he takes portraits of regular people and pastes the pictures, in gigantic- poster format, onto walls and buildings. The film …celebrates community but for Varda, it’s also personal… “JR is fulfilling my greatest desire,” Varda explains. “To meet new faces, and photograph them, so they don’t fall down the holes in my memory. It also sees Varda coming to terms with her own mortality while confronting the deaths, and evolutions, of many French ways of life.”
-The Atlantic
‘René Magritte’s cerebral, enigmatic paintings and prints helped define the imagery and philosophy of the Surrealist movement. His most famous works, including The Treachery of Images (1929) and The Son of Man (1946), explore the illusory power of art and juxtapose mundane and fantastical iconography. Magritte was born in Belgium. After a stint at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels…
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“Having lived in New York since 2016, Ruo Bing Li creates delicate and diverse fashion and beauty images, capturing what he sees as beautiful and meaningful. Through a gentle and painterly lens, his attention to detail produces intimate shots…Alongside stills photography, Ruo Bing Li is also a director and works on a wide range of…
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