Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable
Film Fatales Collection
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1h 31m
"the fascinating film speaks to the most sophisticated students of fine-art photography without alienating casual buffs." Hollywood Reporter
SXSW
San Francisco Film Festival
New Zealand Film Festival
Decades before digital technology transformed how we make and see pictures, Garry Winogrand made hundreds of thousands of them with his 35mm Leica, creating an encyclopedic portrait of America from the late 1950s to the early 1980s in the process. When he died suddenly at age 56 in 1984, Winogrand left behind more than 10,000 rolls of film – more than a quarter of a million pictures! These images capture a bygone era: the New York of Mad Men and the early years of the Women’s Movement, the birth of American suburbs, and the glamour and alienation of Hollywood. He produced so many unseen images that it has taken until now for the full measure of his artistic legacy to emerge. Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable is the first cinematic survey of that legacy. The film tells the story of an artist whose rise and fall was – like America’s in the late decades of the 20th century – larger-than-life, full of contradictions and totally unresolved.
USA - 2018 - 1h 31m
Directed By: Sasha Waters Freyer
Director Biography - Sasha Waters Freyer
Trained in photography and the documentary tradition, Sasha Waters Freyer makes non-fiction films about outsiders, misfits and everyday radicals. Her recent feature film, Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable, won a Special Jury Prize at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, was released theatrically in the U.S and Europe, and airs on the PBS series American Masters in spring 2019. Sasha also works in 16mm film, crafting experimental shorts that have explored memory, motherhood and the cultural and political legacies of the late 20th century. Her 16mm film dragons & seraphim premiered at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival in 2017, toured across the U.S., and most recently showed at Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn. Her past projects have screened at renowned international film festivals like Rotterdam, Telluride, Tribeca Vancouver and IMAGES; in museums such as SF MoMA, the Pacific Film Archives, the Speed Art Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, and on international public and cable television. Her films have been reviewed in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ArtForum, The New Yorker, Variety, IndieWIRE, Hyperallergic and The Hollywood Reporter. She is a past fellow of The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and current Chair of the Department of Photography + Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.