If only you had considered at the beginning that every photo ever taken of you would add up to be the visual story of you then you would have spent a little more time art directing each shot. Performer, director, writer Miranda July, more thoughtful in this regard than the average girl, has artfully amassed a technicolor photo trail that’s only enhanced by her appearance in front of a pile of vintage teal luggage in Vogue this month for her new book, No One Belongs Here More Than You.
For fun, see the website July made for the new book. She’ll be in town May 18 to read from her book at the First Congregational Church (1126 SW Park Ave) at 7 PM, sponsored by PICA.
POSTED: April 23rd, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »
This week marks the sixth annual PDX Fest, The Portland Documentary and Experimental (PDX) Film Festival put on by Peripheral Produce primarily at the Hollywood Theater. Every year PDX Fest compiles a schedule of short and full-length documentary, animation, experimentation, and this year you’ll find programs of film/poem intersection, “experimental portraiture,” and wisely, a show at Audio Cinema, Retinal Reverb, that bridges the gap between the theater and film/video in the visual art realm. And don’t forget The Peripheral Produce Invitational, the World Championship of Experimental Cinema!
Top of our required viewing list is “Helvetica,” Gary Hustwit’s documentary about the little font that could. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny the ubiquitous Helvetica’s import. It’s one of those cultural nodes that ends up being defining–faces that followed its 1957 debut are either influenced by or made in open rebellion against its widespread use. It will be at the Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy) Sunday, April 29 at 8 PM. You probably already know about this interview-based film that uses Helvetica as a launch point to talk about design with a capital-D with a cast of characters including David Carson, Experimental Jetset, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Erik Spiekermann.
2007 PDXFF TRAILER
POSTED: April 23rd, 2007 | AUTHOR: erin | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | 1 Comment »