A fascinating profile of gregory crewdson, whose riveting photographs are elaborately staged, elegant narratives compressed into a single, largescale image, set in small towns or meticulously recreated interior spaces, built on the kind of sound stages associated with bigbudget movies. Brief encounters trailer from benjamin shapiro on vimeo despite his obviously epic micromanagement, crewdson is an affable sort, directing his subjects often unemployed locals. Dec 09, 20 gregory crewdson, untitled from the sanctuary series crewdsons images from the late 1990s to the mid00s became his bestknown work. Brief encounters trailer from benjamin shapiro on vimeo despite his obviously epic micromanagement, crewdson is an affable sort, directing his. Jan 03, 20 the cinematheque unveils its 20 season at moca with the cleveland premier of brief encounters, a new documentary about celebrated photographer gregory crewdson that chronicles the artists painstaking efforts to complete his beneath the roses series, shot in rundown lee, massachusetts. Brief encounters outside the usa visit the film s website. The following interview was originally published on the eve of its sxsw film festival premiere. Crewdsons images from the late 1990s to the mid00s became his bestknown work. Crewdson is best known for using entire film crews to help produce single photographs.
The cinematheque unveils its 20 season at moca with the cleveland premier of brief encounters, a new documentary about celebrated photographer gregory crewdson that chronicles the artists painstaking efforts to complete his beneath the roses series, shot in rundown lee, massachusetts. Brief encounters 2012 toutes les infos sur le film complet gregory crewdson. Working at a mindboggling scale, crewdson creates his highly crafted surreal images and are very cinematic. It premiered march 10, 2012 at the south by southwest film festival and is distributed by zeitgeist films. While there are some talking heads, notably writers rick moody and russell banks, who writes about the postindustrial. See more ideas about gregory crewdson, brief encounter and gregory crewdson photography. Brief encounters beautifully bares the artists processand its as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves. Brief encounters 2012 detailed the expensive production method behind the pictures, the scale and technology of cinema marshaled into a still image. Gregory crewdsons riveting photographs are elaborately staged, elegant narratives compressed into a single, albeit largescale image, many of them taken at twilight, set in small towns of western. Oct 24, 2012 a decades fretting and futzing and the few ecstatic moments rendered along the way are compressed into 77 minutes in gregory crewdson. Brief encounters is a documentary film directed, produced, and shot by ben shapiro. Brief encounters, playing through november at film forum.
Photographer profile gregory crewdson anthony luke. Artist gregory crewdson to direct the deepest secret movie. Zeitgeist one of the many photographs seen in gregory crewdson. Brief encounters is available worldwide for screening in theaters, museums, galleries, and for sale to colleges and schools. Last night i was fortunate enough to catch brief encounters, the new documentary about gregory crewdson. The photographs are shot using a large crew, and are elaborately staged and lighted. Gregory crewdson at work standing on ladder on the set of untitled ophelia.
Perhaps exhausted by this laborious and costly working method crewdsons more recent series sanctuary 2010. Crewdson, also currently director of graduate studies in photography at his alma mater the yale school of art, was the subject of ben shapiros 2012 feature documentary gregory crewdson. An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, gregory crewdson has created some of the most. Credited with conceiving a new, expansive photographic language, crewdson explores human. Oct 31, 2012 a fascinating profile of gregory crewdson, whose riveting photographs are elaborately staged, elegant narratives compressed into a single, largescale image, set in small towns or meticulously recreated interior spaces, built on the kind of sound stages associated with bigbudget movies. Ive always been interested in wanting to construct the world in photographs, he has said.
Gregory crewdson is quite unusual photographer who creates haunting large color stills of life in smalltown america which have all the detail and possible narrative of a feature film but which are just single frame images. A closeup portrait of the acclaimed photographer, filmed with unprecedented access over a decade as he. Crewdsons work combines the documentary style of william. Brief encounters, opens tomorrow at film forum through zeitgeist films. Brief encounters beautifully bares the artist s process and it s as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves. Brief encounters explores the artistic processes behind the maverick photographers gothic fairytales of small town american life. Gregory crewdson s riveting photographs are elaborately staged, elegant narratives compressed into a single, albeit largescale image, many of them taken at twilight, set in small towns of western. Brief encounters outside the usa visit the films website. I had to watch this movie for an art appreciation class i am taking. Brief encounters ben shapiros documentary chronicles crewdsons stellar career, focusing on a series of photographs called beneath the roses, which includes many. Crewdson has become internationally known for his photographs that capture moments of great drama and tension. Shot over a decade with unprecedented access, gregory crewdson. Gregory crewdsons photographs usually take place in small town america, but are dramatic and cinematic.
Filmmaker ben shapiro reveals the meticulous creative process of gregory crewdson as the. Crewdsons fascinating photographs are elaborately staged, welldesigned narratives compressed into a. The film series followed the construction and the behindthescenes explanation from crewdson himself of his thought process and vision for his pieces of his collection beneath the roses. Ben shapiro his work has appeared on television pbs, sundance channel, cbs, national geographic, and at major festivals, and museums including the museum of modern art. Brief encounters a film by ben shapiro opens at film forum in new york on october 31, 2012 before playing around the country. Brief encounters, a 2012 documentary directed by ben shapiro, follows acclaimed photographer gregory crewdsons decadelong quest to create a series of haunting, surreal and stunningly elaborate portraits of smalltown american life a depiction of a disturbing and imperfect world. Brief encounters is a film for photography fans and a photo essay for film fans. He is influenced by david lynch, alfred hitchcock, and edward hopper and some of his images look it.
Oct 11, 2012 shot over a decade with unprecedented access, gregory crewdson. Brief encounters when it screened a few months ago at the national gallery of art missed a treat. In brief encounters, documentarys camera follows photographer. Brief encounters is a beautiful and contemplative look at crewdsons process, focusing on when he was working on beneath the roses, a multiyear project that brought film crews of sixty or so people to small towns in the berkshires of massachusetts to help produce his largeformat photos.
Photographer gregory crewdson is renowned for his elaboratelystaged photographs, huge in scope, size, and ambition. While it seems to undercut the earnestness and conviction of crewdsons artistic visions by showing the man in his authoritative, yet passive. Filmed over a period of ten years, with unprecedented access, director ben shapiros forthcoming feature gregory crewdson. Brief encounters follows photographer gregory crewdson as he creates a new body of work, a series of a dozen largescale images. Brief encounters, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2012. An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, gregory crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium.
Brief encounters, director ben shapiro immerses himself in gregory crewdsons creative process during the shooting of the photographers beneath the roses series, which spanned from 2002 to 2008. Brief encounters en francais, streaming gratuit, soustitres et audio dorigine. Brief encounters ten years in the making, ben shapiros docu on celebrated photog gregory crewdson concentrates on his magnum opus, the collection of huge prints known as. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the. There are currently two videos available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Filmed over a decade, brief encounters follows internationally renowned photographer gregory crewdson s quest to create his unique, surreal, and incredibly elaborate portraits of suburban life. Brief encounters 2012 starring gregory crewdson and rick moody on dvd and bluray. A closeup portrait of the acclaimed photographer, filmed with unprecedented access over a decade as he creates his stunning images. Brief encounters, a finely sketched portrait of the artist.
Gregory crewdsons riveting photographs are elaborately staged, elegant narratives compressed into a. Brief encounters follows the acclaimed photographers decadelong quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and. Brief encounters premiered at south by southwest, and opened at film forum in new york on october 31, 2012, and on november 16 2012 at the film society of lincoln center, then into limited theatrical release. A documentary shot over a decade with unprecedented access to photographer gregory crewdson that bares the artists process. Brief encounters his meticulously composed, largescale images are stunning narratives of smalltown american lifemoviescapes crystallized into a single frame. May 21st, 20 not yet rated 1 hr 17 min plot summary. His first experience of photography, at the age of ten, was a diane arbus retrospective at the museum of modern art in new york as a teenager, he was part of a punk rock group called the speedies that hit the new york scene in selling out shows all over town. Oct 31, 2012 video archive for the film gregory crewdson. While there are some talking heads, notably writers rick moody and russell banks, who writes about the postindustrial smalltown america that crewdson favors for his. A decades fretting and futzing and the few ecstatic moments rendered along the way are compressed into 77 minutes in gregory crewdson. Crewdsons photographs, which explore the surreal dark side of smalltown american. It premiered march 10, 2012 at the south by southwest.
Brief encounters will show, this is indeed, all for one picture. Brief encounters chronicles the work of acclaimed brooklynborn photographer. Artist gregory crewdson to direct the deepest secret. The 90 minute film from arts documentarian ben schapiro, released to.
Brief encounters highlights an artist taking advantage of his lack of budgetary limitations to piece together the perfect moment within a frame with help from supportive collaborators. With his filmmakerlike sense of visual composition, crewdson has created some of the most striking and gorgeously. A documentary shot over a decade with unprecedented access to. Brief encounters usa2012directed by ben shapiro a photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, gregory crewdson has created some of the most haunting images in the history of the medium. Brief encounters follows the acclaimed photographers decadelong quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of smalltown american life. Gregory crewdson did it, and success in music, anyway has come 25 years later. Gregory crewdson was born in brooklyn, new york, on september 26, 1962. In suburban settings or on elaborately detailed sets of american homes, interiors, and neighborhoods, gregory crewdson stages haunting, cinematic photos of alienation and eerie quietude. So filmmaker benjamin shapiro had his work cut out. Brief encounters reveals the artists processand its as riveting as his images. Review of brief encounters, gregory crewdson documentary. Brief encounters beautifully bares the artists process.
With costanza theodoli braschi, gregory crewdson, samantha ressler, richard. In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film gregory crewdson. With his filmmakerlike sense of visual composition, crewdson has created some of the most striking and gorgeously haunting pictures of the past two decades. Jun 11, 2014 gregory crewdson is quite unusual photographer who creates haunting large color stills of life in smalltown america which have all the detail and possible narrative of a feature film but which are just single frame images. Brief encounters, ironically also a film of loss, pivoting on the natural downward spiral that is found in the unending cycle of human, geographic, and economic erosion, even touching on the inevitable degrading of the infrastructure of small town america circa 1940 is a film that shouldnt be missed on any account, but. Gregory crewdson brief encounters a film by ben shapiro.
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