New Orleans Festival of Photography
PAPER CUTS: COLLAGE EXPLORATIONS IN FILM 90 min. 12:00 p.m. Animator Simon Blake takes us on a multi-media journey through his wide-ranging career, his arsenal of filmmaking techniques (including photography-based 2-D cutout animation), and stories from his time working at the studios of Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, mixed media director Osbert Parks, the BBC, and […]
Witkin & Witkin explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, world famous photographer and Jerome, painter and lifelong educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art, and personal relationship. We meet the women in their lives who give us access to their worlds, beyond their images. A film about […]
11:55 Serendipity: An Afternoon with Simon Blake, Filmmaker* with Simon Blake (*this is a customized program/presentation, unique to this festival)
The Mexican Suitcase is the search for photographic negatives by pioneering war photographers Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David ‘Chim’ Seymour, made during the Spanish Civil War, and long rumored to be hidden in Mexico City. Venturing to four countries, this film explores rich topics: modern war photography, the fight against fascism, the terror of […]
THE SALT OF THE EARTH Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, 2014, 110 min. 2:05 p.m. For the last 40 years, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. […]
A film by Alexis Boling, William Boling, and Faisal Azam A Harmonium Films, Fall Line Press and Anarchist Evening Entertainment Production Join for a screening of the film followed by a Q&A with William Boling, producer of the film and founder and publisher of Fall Line Press. Paul Kwilecki: Photographer (2023; 28 minutes) “The greatest […]
Still/Motion: The Festival of Photography in Film photography at its intersection with cinema, especially as it relates to other fascinating subjects: history, mystery, family, humanity, global and local environment, and cutout animation. This one-day festival at the Broad Theater showcases three feature films, one Louisiana short film, and a special event with New Orleans filmmaker Simon […]
