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Golub  /  Inquring Nuns

Golub
September 25, 2016 - 7:00 pm
In-person: 
Gordon Quinn.

Golub: The Late Works are the Catastrophes  (2004)


The production of a single, epic-scale painting by Leon Golub in the mid-1980s, from early sketches to final exhibition, forms the first part of this expansive portrait of an activist artist whose best-known work draws on and confronts forms of political violence and repression.  A multi-decade project for Kartemquin, the film’s second section revisits Golub in 2001 as his work takes a new direction and he and his wife, feminist artist Nancy Spiro, reflect on the role of art in society, their relationship and their legacies.

Digital Video, color, 80 min.  DIR: Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn.

Preceded by

Inquiring Nuns: 1st & 2nd Series  (1968)


Inspired by Jean Rouch’s Chronicle of a Summer (1961), Kartemquin’s playful, insightful, eye-opening two-part foray into cinema vérité follows two nuns as they visit various sites around Chicago in 1968 asking people “Are you happy?”

Digital Video, b/w, 66 min.  DIR: Gordon Quinn, Gerald Temaner.