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The Season in Sight: Cinema, Art & Design
As we settle into the end of 2024, we're excited to share invigorating work spanning film, art, and design. On the silver screen, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Landon Van Soest's Light Darkness Light explores the nature of perception itself and Catherine Corman adapts Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past in her new short film Overture. San Francisco's premier film organization SFFILM shares films from master storytellers like Mike Leigh with Bay Area audiences and honors this year’s standout figures in cinema at their annual star-studded Awards Night.
In the gallery world, Los Angeles design studio ENTLER expands its sculptural language from lighting to furniture. Contemporary artist Genevieve Gaignard, whose work has been featured in The New York Times and Artforum, brings a new solo exhibition to Vielmetter Los Angeles while her work "Kings and Queens" appears in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's landmark exhibition Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now. Filmmaker/photographer Jacob Rosenberg's debut photo book RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES offers an unprecedented look at 90s hip-hop and skateboarding culture through never-before-seen photographs and artifacts from his personal archive.
Read on for a closer look at this season’s happenings, and please please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to cover. Additional information, including images, trailers, interviews, and more, is all available upon request.
In the gallery world, Los Angeles design studio ENTLER expands its sculptural language from lighting to furniture. Contemporary artist Genevieve Gaignard, whose work has been featured in The New York Times and Artforum, brings a new solo exhibition to Vielmetter Los Angeles while her work "Kings and Queens" appears in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's landmark exhibition Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now. Filmmaker/photographer Jacob Rosenberg's debut photo book RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES offers an unprecedented look at 90s hip-hop and skateboarding culture through never-before-seen photographs and artifacts from his personal archive.
Read on for a closer look at this season’s happenings, and please please let us know if there’s anything you’d like to cover. Additional information, including images, trailers, interviews, and more, is all available upon request.
FILM
CATHERINE CORMAN’S OVERTURE
The filmmaker follows her works adapting Patrick Modiano with a new short film adapting Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past featuring music from Philip Glass
Marcel puts down a book and her eyes adjust to the soft darkness. It is nearly midnight, and she recalls waking late at night, uncertain of her surroundings. She remembers all the rooms she has lived in, one image after another appearing before her, like a kinetoscope, or the old silent film of a horse galloping, one pace after the next, a record of each fragile moment. Awake now, she orients herself by focusing on the objects around her. She recalls a magic lantern she had as a child, its images cast on the walls of her room, a feeling like closing a book, waking from a dream, a soul moving from one life to the next, a moment between worlds.
CATHERINE CORMAN’S OVERTURE
The filmmaker follows her works adapting Patrick Modiano with a new short film adapting Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past featuring music from Philip Glass
Marcel puts down a book and her eyes adjust to the soft darkness. It is nearly midnight, and she recalls waking late at night, uncertain of her surroundings. She remembers all the rooms she has lived in, one image after another appearing before her, like a kinetoscope, or the old silent film of a horse galloping, one pace after the next, a record of each fragile moment. Awake now, she orients herself by focusing on the objects around her. She recalls a magic lantern she had as a child, its images cast on the walls of her room, a feeling like closing a book, waking from a dream, a soul moving from one life to the next, a moment between worlds.
LIGHT DARKNESS LIGHT
The new feature documentary from Emmy Award-winning director Landon Van Soest (The Jewel Thief) screens at DOC NYC on November 16 and 17
Father Ian Nichols has just had cutting-edge surgery. The darkness of the world he once lived in has now been transformed to one of abstract artificial vision. Acutely sensitive to the environment around him and articulate in conveying the sensations he experiences – physically, emotionally and spiritually – his presence transforms Light Darkness Light into a profound meditation on lived experiences. The film tackles themes of perception, memory and imagination, inviting viewers to contemplate their own connections to these ideas. At times strikingly beautiful, Landon Van Soest’s empathetic portrait becomes a moving rumination of the way we live in the world and the role our senses play in being connected to it.
The new feature documentary from Emmy Award-winning director Landon Van Soest (The Jewel Thief) screens at DOC NYC on November 16 and 17
Father Ian Nichols has just had cutting-edge surgery. The darkness of the world he once lived in has now been transformed to one of abstract artificial vision. Acutely sensitive to the environment around him and articulate in conveying the sensations he experiences – physically, emotionally and spiritually – his presence transforms Light Darkness Light into a profound meditation on lived experiences. The film tackles themes of perception, memory and imagination, inviting viewers to contemplate their own connections to these ideas. At times strikingly beautiful, Landon Van Soest’s empathetic portrait becomes a moving rumination of the way we live in the world and the role our senses play in being connected to it.
SFFILM PRESENTS MIKE LEIGH’S HARD TRUTHS AND 2024 AWARDS NIGHT
SFFILM presents its fall programming, bringing some of the year’s most exciting filmmakers to Bay Area audiences.
SFFILM presents an advanced screening of legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths on Wednesday, November 20 at the historic Roxie Theater with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste in person. With Hard Truths, Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, reuniting with Leigh for the first time since the multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies.
SFFILM is also looking forward to its annual star-studded fundraiser event celebrating unique and extraordinary achievements in film. SFFILM’s Awards Night will be held at the Fort Mason Center on December 9, and will honor Denis Villeneuve (Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction), Demi Moore (Maria Manetti Shrem Award for Acting), Malcolm Washington (George Gund III for Virtuosity), and Jason Reitman (Nion McEvoy & Leslie Berriman Award for Storytelling).
SFFILM presents its fall programming, bringing some of the year’s most exciting filmmakers to Bay Area audiences.
SFFILM presents an advanced screening of legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh’s new film Hard Truths on Wednesday, November 20 at the historic Roxie Theater with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste in person. With Hard Truths, Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, reuniting with Leigh for the first time since the multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies.
SFFILM is also looking forward to its annual star-studded fundraiser event celebrating unique and extraordinary achievements in film. SFFILM’s Awards Night will be held at the Fort Mason Center on December 9, and will honor Denis Villeneuve (Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction), Demi Moore (Maria Manetti Shrem Award for Acting), Malcolm Washington (George Gund III for Virtuosity), and Jason Reitman (Nion McEvoy & Leslie Berriman Award for Storytelling).
ART + DESIGN
ENTLER STUDIO
The Los Angeles-based design studio continues to expand beyond lighting, with new designs including the Beginning End Table.
ENTLER Studio launches the Beginning End Table, marking an expansion for the Los Angeles-based studio known for its lighting.
In a distinctly ENTLER design, the Beginning End Table’s sculptural, handmade ceramic fabrication and weighted base offer a practical and unique sense of whimsy and elegance to the everyday. Whether it holds a coffee by the bed, a laptop by the sofa, or a cocktail on the patio, the Beginning End Table is designed to fit any occasion with a small footprint but a big impact.
Made to order by hand in Los Angeles in two heights, 18” (15 lbs.) and 34” (17 lbs). The 14” diameter top is available in classic mirror, gold mirror, and smoked mirror. Metal hardware is available in brass, nickel, or color-matched to the glaze. Custom sizing, colors, and tabletop materials are available by request.
ENTLER STUDIO
The Los Angeles-based design studio continues to expand beyond lighting, with new designs including the Beginning End Table.
ENTLER Studio launches the Beginning End Table, marking an expansion for the Los Angeles-based studio known for its lighting.
In a distinctly ENTLER design, the Beginning End Table’s sculptural, handmade ceramic fabrication and weighted base offer a practical and unique sense of whimsy and elegance to the everyday. Whether it holds a coffee by the bed, a laptop by the sofa, or a cocktail on the patio, the Beginning End Table is designed to fit any occasion with a small footprint but a big impact.
Made to order by hand in Los Angeles in two heights, 18” (15 lbs.) and 34” (17 lbs). The 14” diameter top is available in classic mirror, gold mirror, and smoked mirror. Metal hardware is available in brass, nickel, or color-matched to the glaze. Custom sizing, colors, and tabletop materials are available by request.
GENEVIEVE GAIGNARD
The artist’s third solo exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles closed last weekend. Gaignard’s “Kings and Queens” will be on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, opening on November 17.
Genevieve Gaignard’s Thinking Out Loud recently closed this past weekend, November 9. Gaignard’s third solo exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles presented some of the artists’ most intimate work to date, considering the space in between truths and that mysterious, uncomfortable dissonance. Contemplation is key to this work, with altars peppering the installation and a bench sitting centrally in the gallery like in a park, offering a site of reflection surrounded by 20 mixed media works on the walls.
Additionally, Gaignard’s work “Kings and Queens” will be on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, which examines how Black artists and cultural figures have used their work to engage with ancient Egypt through nearly 200 pieces ranging in media. The exhibition will be open from November 17, 2024, through February 17, 2025.
Work Caption: Genevieve Gaignard. “Kings and Queens” (2017). Chromogenic print. 32 × 48 in. (81.3 × 121.9 cm). Framed: 33 3/4 × 49 3/4 × 2 in. (85.7 × 126.4 × 5.1 cm).
The artist’s third solo exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles closed last weekend. Gaignard’s “Kings and Queens” will be on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, opening on November 17.
Genevieve Gaignard’s Thinking Out Loud recently closed this past weekend, November 9. Gaignard’s third solo exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles presented some of the artists’ most intimate work to date, considering the space in between truths and that mysterious, uncomfortable dissonance. Contemplation is key to this work, with altars peppering the installation and a bench sitting centrally in the gallery like in a park, offering a site of reflection surrounded by 20 mixed media works on the walls.
Additionally, Gaignard’s work “Kings and Queens” will be on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, which examines how Black artists and cultural figures have used their work to engage with ancient Egypt through nearly 200 pieces ranging in media. The exhibition will be open from November 17, 2024, through February 17, 2025.
Work Caption: Genevieve Gaignard. “Kings and Queens” (2017). Chromogenic print. 32 × 48 in. (81.3 × 121.9 cm). Framed: 33 3/4 × 49 3/4 × 2 in. (85.7 × 126.4 × 5.1 cm).
RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES
Jacob Rosenberg’s new photobook launches alongside an exhibition by the same name at HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles, opening on November 22
Pre-order your copy here.
RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES is a documentary photobook—a mixtape of sorts—by Jacob Rosenberg that charts a decade of proto-social media-era Bay Area hip-hop and skate culture.
Through an excavation of analog artifacts, ephemera, and period imagery, RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES charts the artistic origins and vibrant community of filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg as he grew from young skateboard video filmer/maker to group photographer and music video director for the legendary Bay Area hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics (Del the Funky Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, Casual, et al). An immersive, decade-long journey from 1988-1998, RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES showcases and examines the preservation of seemingly bygone mediums, capturing the eagerness and ambition of acquiring access to sub-cultures through artistic expression. Hi8 Video Tapes, Vintage Demo Cassettes, and Exclusive Promo LPs all harken back to a resonant era when the possession of the objects exemplified one’s cultural connection.
Jacob Rosenberg’s new photobook launches alongside an exhibition by the same name at HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles, opening on November 22
Pre-order your copy here.
RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES is a documentary photobook—a mixtape of sorts—by Jacob Rosenberg that charts a decade of proto-social media-era Bay Area hip-hop and skate culture.
Through an excavation of analog artifacts, ephemera, and period imagery, RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES charts the artistic origins and vibrant community of filmmaker Jacob Rosenberg as he grew from young skateboard video filmer/maker to group photographer and music video director for the legendary Bay Area hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics (Del the Funky Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, Casual, et al). An immersive, decade-long journey from 1988-1998, RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES showcases and examines the preservation of seemingly bygone mediums, capturing the eagerness and ambition of acquiring access to sub-cultures through artistic expression. Hi8 Video Tapes, Vintage Demo Cassettes, and Exclusive Promo LPs all harken back to a resonant era when the possession of the objects exemplified one’s cultural connection.
