An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda at NYPL May 5, 2008

Art21 and the Mid-Manhattan Library present
a film screening and conversation

"Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 4 episode Protest
After the screening Michael Almereyda, filmmaker and writer, will join artist An-My Lê for a conversation and Q&A session.

Monday, May 5, 2008 at 6:30pm

Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue, 6th floor
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871

Elevators to access the 6th floor.
All events are FREE and open to the public.

About "Protest"
How do contemporary artists engage politics, inequality, and the many conflicts that besiege the world today? How do artists use their work to discuss or oppose misery, turmoil, and injustice? The Art:21 documentary Protest examines the ways in which contemporary artists picture and question war, express outrage, and empathize with the suffering of others. Whether bearing witness to tragic events, presenting alternative histories, or engaging in activism, the artists interviewed in Protest use visual art as a means to provoke personal transformations and question social revolutions. Protest is shot on location in New York, New York; Hoosick Falls, New York; Wappingers Falls, New York; Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California; and
Santiago, Chile.


Landscape photographer An-My Lê discusses her return to Vietnam, where she grew up amid the violence of the Vietnam War, to photograph people’s activities, revisit childhood memories, and reconnect with her homeland, as well as her experience photographing military re-enactors, whom she found on the Internet.
Unable to travel to Iraq to document current U.S. incursions in the Middle East, Lê also worked with marines training at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.

Official Website: http://www.pbs.org/art21