ART ON SCREEN

Hundreds of films explore the arts and the lives of artists. A pilot project made possible through the generous support of Jackie Hamilton, ART ON SCREEN seeks to broaden an interest in the arts through the creative pairing of films about art and artists with entertaining discussions by notable speakers from the world of art and art history.

We think of ART ON SCREEN as ‘TED Talks’ goes to the movies, combining great films with engaging and entertaining speakers, in order to appeal not only to art aficionados but also to those who find the art world a bit intimidating or mystifying.

ART ON SCREEN was developed in consultation with Stuart Horodner, director of the University of Kentucky Art Museum and Leah Kolb, founder of 2nd Story, a curatorial space in downtown Lexington.

ASCO: Without Permission

Q&A With Rachel Hooper, Curator, University of Kentucky Art Musuem

THU, APR 9 @ 7:15PM | TICKETS

ASCO: Without Permission is a genre-defying film that profiles the extraordinary, Los Angeles based, Chicano art group of the 70's-80's, ASCO, who merged activism and art as they challenged representation in the art world, Hollywood, and the news media. Unrecognized in their time, they are now considered amongst the most important artists of the 20th century. Utilizing a wholly original approach to filmmaking where nonfiction and fiction are interconnected through collaborative film works made with the next generation of Latinx artists, Without Permission reimagines what is possible today in cinema and art while celebrating an iconoclastic group that was far ahead of its time.

The Kentucky Theatre and the University of Kentucky Art Museum are presenting this film in connection with the Harry Gamboa Jr: The Early, The Late, The Lost exhibition available from now through June 27. 

Look and See | Further: Short Films Exploring the World of Wendell and Tanya Berry

With Special Guest, Mary Berry, Founder of The Berry Center

Presented by the James Baker Hall Foundation in Collaboration with Twin Birds Film, The Berry Center, and The Kentucky Theatre

TUE, APR 14 @ 7:00PM | TICKETS

Following the success of her 2017 feature film Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry, Laura Dunn found herself with nine hours of recorded conversation and over 100 hours of video outtakes. From this rich material she produced the nine short films titled Look and See | Further, a fascinating series of documentary topics which illuminate previously unexplored aspects of the Berry’s world in Henry County Kentucky with deep and inspired intensity.

Over the several years of her production, Laura never filmed Wendell Berry himself, only his voice is heard. This was his condition, that he does not appear on camera.  The many stories that are documented are made possible visually by the use of photographs made by James Baker Hall, a renowned Kentucky poet, author, photographer and one of Wendell’s oldest friends. The archive of these images, taken over more than 50 years, was made available, and, as Laura put it, if not for Jim’s remarkable artistry we would not have had a film. The final episode pays tribute to Jim, his photography and the long friendship between these two extraordinary Kentuckians.