UPCOMING EVENTS | Film
Film: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child Thursday 09.09.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star status.” He achieves critical and commercial success, though he is constantly confronted by racism from his peers. In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly in 1987. Basquiat’s heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. The artist was 25 years old at the height of his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars. With compassion and psychological insight, Tamra Davis details the mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the downtown scene he seemed to embody. Visit the film's website. |
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Monday 09.20.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Presented by Environmental Health Strategy Center Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic 85-minute film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. Visit the film's website here. |
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Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (at the PMA) Friday 09.24.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, $7 General Admission, All Ages Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed" The film is being co-presented by SPACE Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art and will be screened at the PMA theater. Please visit the PMA website for more details. Tickets available at the PMA front desk on each screening day or at the door. |
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Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (at the PMA) Saturday 09.25.2010, Starts at 2:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $7 General Admission, All Ages Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed" The film is being co-presented by SPACE Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art and will be screened at the PMA theater. Please visit the PMA website for more details. Tickets available at the PMA front desk on each screening day or at the door. |
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Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (at the PMA) Saturday 09.25.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, $7 General Admission, All Ages Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed" The film is being co-presented by SPACE Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art and will be screened at the PMA theater. Please visit the PMA website for more details. Tickets available at the PMA front desk on each screening day or at the door. |
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Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (at the PMA) Sunday 09.26.2010, Starts at 2:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $7 General Admission, All Ages Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed" The film is being co-presented by SPACE Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art and will be screened at the PMA theater. Please visit the PMA website for more details. Tickets available at the PMA front desk on each screening day or at the door. |
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Film: 2010 Manhattan Short Film Festival Tuesday 09.28.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here.
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Film: Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight Thursday 10.07.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students w/ ID / FREE for AIGA Maine Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Part of SPACE's SCOPE visual arts film series. Co-presented by AIGA Maine. For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and the enduring I ♥ NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, MILTON GLASER: TO INFORM AND DELIGHT. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos, and brand identities, to his celebrated prints, drawings, posters and paintings, the documentary offers audiences a much richer appreciation for one of the great modern renaissance men. Milton Glaser website. |
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Thursday 10.14.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Tickets on sale here. Filmed over a period of six years in Native communities throughout New England, Language of America demonstrates how language is not just a tool for communication, but a window into the beauty, mystery, and richness of a different culture - a culture that has existed in Maine for over 9,000 years, but is now quickly approaching the brink of disappearance. The story follows members of three New England tribes, the Passamaquoddy, Wampanoag, and Narrangansett, who against all odds are struggling to maintain their language and traditional ways of living in 21st century America. Language of America website. |
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Thursday 10.21.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Freakonomics is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years: Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Academy Award® nominees Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Academy Award® nominee Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and Seth Gordon (The King of Kong). Freakonomics website. |
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Friday 10.22.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Freakonomics is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years: Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Academy Award® nominees Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Academy Award® nominee Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and Seth Gordon (The King of Kong). Freakonomics website. |
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Sunday 10.24.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. As the daughters of the baby boom reached adolescence, the American school system struggled to educate them on matters of sexual and social development lessons that were not always being taught at home. To the teacher uncomfortable with such topics, classroom films were a godsend. They depicted the reproductive system in anatomical detail (Growing Girls) a wide array of social issues, from the importance of cooking skills (You’re the Judge, starring a young Bonnie Franklin), to self-defense (Attack) and how to say "No" (Saying No). Often corny, sometimes frightening, these cinematic life lessons curated and introduced by Skip Elsheimer, founder of the A/V Geeks educational film archive provide a fascinating window to the hopes and fears of parents and educators in mid-century America. And unlike school, boys will be allowed to view these films. A/V Geeks website. |
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Tuesday 11.09.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Winner Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Sundance 2010 Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you. A film by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (author "The Perfect Storm") Restrepo website.
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Film: Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine Thursday 11.11.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students w/ ID, All Ages Buy tickets here. Part of SPACE's SCOPE visual arts film series. Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day. Her process is on full display in this extraordinary documentary. As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has for six decades been at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. Film website. |
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Film: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle Thursday 11.18.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, $10 per screening or $20 for a full Cycle pass., All Ages The Cremaster Cycle, written and directed by Matthew Barney, is an epic masterwork with near cult status in the art world. This much-discussed work of art is not now, nor will it ever be, available to own on DVD. It can only be seen in theaters and has not toured nationally since 2003 following the completion of Cremaster 3. This is only the second screening of the complete Cycle in New England. SPACE Gallery is presenting the Cycle in collaboration with the Portland Museum of Art. Please visit their website for more details. 11/18: Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 2 (119 min.) The Cremaster website. |
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Thursday 12.09.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students w/ ID, All Ages Part of SPACE's SCOPE visual arts film series. HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, they continued collecting artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists. Their circle includes: Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner. Herb & Dorothy website. |
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