FREE - Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project + Deconfliction @ Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series January 7, 2008
376 9th St
Brooklyn, New York 11215
Brooklyn, New York 11215
FIRST & THIRD MONDAY of Every Month @ 7pm FREE !
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Barbes - 376 9th St (at Sixth Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
subway: F to Seventh Ave
MONDAY, JANUARY 7 @ 7pm
* Guest-Curated by David Redmon & Ashley Sabin *
Shorts Program
DECONFLICTION
Directed by Edward Tyndall
13 min - 2007 - USA - English - Color/B&W
Since childhood Tina Highland did his best to ignore the fact that he was dissatisfied with his gender. He spent most of his life amassing a huge stockpile of military relics as a masculine bulwark against his conflicted identity. After being wounded by gunfire in Southern Russia, he returned to the United States and summoned the strength to reveal his true feelings to family and friends.
Feature Program
TIERNEY GEARON: THE MOTHER PROJECT
Directed by Jack Youngelson & Peter Sutherland
70 min - 2007 - USA - English - Color
Celebrated photographer Tierney Gearon’s work has been labeled manipulative, disturbing and even perverse. A former model and dancer, Gearon came to notorious fame in 2001 when photos of her own naked and masked children in the “I Am a Camera” show at London’s Saatchi Gallery had authorities threatening child pornography charges.
The film follows this exceptional artist over the course of three years as she assembles her most daring and emotionally complex body of work to date: a series on her manic-depressive schizophrenic mother, who resides in Grey Gardens squalor in the frozen suburbs of upstate New York. The mixture of art and family can almost be too close for comfort, but like much of Gearon’s photographs there is a subversive beauty that emerges from the incongruity between ordinary moments and madness. TIERNEY GEARON: THE MOTHER PROJECT is a moving and intricate portrait of an artist, her inspirations and unconventional family relationships.
FIRST & THIRD MONDAY of Every Month @ 7pm FREE !
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Barbes - 376 9th St (at Sixth Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
subway: F to Seventh Ave
Official Website: http://brooklynindependent.com
Added by pbnoj productions on January 3, 2008