{"id":11311,"date":"2018-09-26T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=11311"},"modified":"2020-03-06T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T18:36:17","slug":"here-it-is-the-56th-new-york-film-festival-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/here-it-is-the-56th-new-york-film-festival-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"Here It Is: The 56th New York Film Festival Poster …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… <\/b>Designed by Cinematographer Ed Lachman and Visual Artist Jr<\/h2>\n

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Lachman and JR join an impressive legacy of artists whose works have been commissioned for festival posters, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, and last year\u2019s artist, Richard Serra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s poster came together in the best imaginable way \u2013 spontaneously, at last year\u2019s festival,\u201d said New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones. \u201cDan Stern, our board president, was talking to Ed Lachman, one of the best DPs alive, a visual artist, and a regular at the NYFF, and asked him if he had any interest in doing a poster for this year. Ed thought it over, got back to Dan, and told him that he and JR\u2014who was at the festival with his amazing collaboration with Agn\u00e8s Varda, Faces Places<\/i>\u2014had been discussing the possibility of a collaboration, and they\u2019d agreed that the NYFF poster presented them with a great opportunity. The result is better than we could ever have imagined, a real thing of beauty, and it\u2019s going to be a favorite.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the partnership and thought process behind this year\u2019s poster, Ed Lachman explains, \u201cBeing at the Festival is the highlight of the year for me, when I\u2019m not working. It\u2019s a place to meet, share, and experience what cinema can be. The opportunity to create the poster for the New York Film Festival and collaborate with JR was a formidable experience and similar to filmmaking, where one works with other visual artists to create a project. I\u2019ve had the greatest respect and admiration for his work over the years, both visually and how he engages communities he\u2019s portraying within a social context, which I think is so important in today\u2019s world, to find how we’re all connected, rather than separated and divided.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Lachman, \u201cThe idea came together using JR\u2019s emblematic eyes . . . What is cinema without the mind, the heart, and the eyes of the filmmakers? Using the director\u2019s eyes can <\/span>symbolize the creative force behind the images and the stories that the Festival has championed and represented to New York over the years, supported by the audience holding the placards of their eyes, and what can be more New York than our alleyways?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

A revered and award-winning cinematographer, Ed Lachman has shot more than 100 narrative, experimental, and documentary titles in the United States and internationally.<\/span> He is known for his collaborations with Todd Haynes, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Altman, Paul Schrader, Todd Solondz, Sofia Coppola, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff, Ulrich Seidl, and Jean Luc-Godard, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lachman\u2019s work has garnered him numerous honors including Academy Award nominations for his work on Carol <\/i>(2015) and Far from Heaven <\/i>(2002), as well as an Emmy nomination for the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce<\/i> (2011). He has been honored with the American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award, Telluride Medallion Award, Gotham Award, and this year at Cannes with the 2018 Angenieux ExcelLens in Cinematography Award. Lachman is also known as a visual artist who has had installations, videos, and photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the Ludwig Museum in Germany, and many other museums and galleries throughout the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

JR exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. In 2006, he created Portrait of a Generation, images of suburban \u201cthugs\u201d that he posted in huge formats in the bourgeois districts of Paris. In 2007, with Marco, he made Face 2 Face, large portraits of Israelis and Palestinians standing facing each other in eight Palestinian and Israeli Cities, considered the biggest illegal exhibition ever. In 2011, he received the TED Prize. Later that same year, he created Inside Out<\/span>, a global participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into works of art. As of September 2017, over 350,000 people from more than 140 countries have participated, through mail or g<\/span>igantic photo booths.<\/span><\/p>\n

His recent projects include a collaboration with New York City Ballet; the feature documentary Faces Places<\/i>, co-directed with Nouvelle Vague legend Agn\u00e8s Varda; seemingly \u201cerasing\u201d the pyramid outside of the Louvre; giant scaffolding installations at the 2016 Rio Olympics; an exhibition on the abandoned hospital of Ellis Island; and a gigantic installation at the U.S.-Mexico border fence. As he remains anonymous and doesn\u2019t explain his enlarged full-frame portraits, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject\/protagonist and the passerby\/interpreter.<\/p>\n

A special thank you to photographers David Godlis and Julie Cunnah for their photo contributions to the poster. Chantal Akerman photo courtesy of Kenneth Saunders\/The Guardian.<\/span><\/p>\n

These limited-edition posters will be available for purchase during the festival at filmlinc.org\/merch<\/a>. NYFF will also be holding a contest: the person who correctly identifies the most director eyes will receive a pair of festival tickets and a signed poster. See a poster keyhere<\/a> and enter the contest here<\/a>. Ed Lachman will speak to NYFF audiences about the poster concept and creative process at a free NYFF Live talk during the festival, details to be announced.
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The complete list of NYFF poster artists:
\n<\/span><\/b>Larry Rivers, 1963
\nSaul Bass, 1964
\nBruce Conner, 1965
\nRoy Lichtenstein, 1966
\nAndy Warhol, 1967
\nHenry Pearson, 1968
\nMarisol (Escobar), 1969
\nJames Rosenquist, 1970
\nFrank Stella, 1971
\nJosef Albers, 1972
\nNiki de Saint Phalle, 1973
\nJean Tinguely, 1974
\nCarol Summers, 1975
\nAllan D\u2019Arcangelo, 1976
\nJim Dine, 1977
\nRichard Avedon, 1978
\nMichelangelo Pistoletto, 1979
\nLes Levine, 1980
\nDavid Hockney, 1981
\nRobert Rauschenberg, 1982
\nJack Youngerman, 1983
\nRobert Breer, 1984
\nTom Wesselmann, 1985
\nElinor Bunin, 1986
\nSol Lewitt, 1987
\nMilton Glaser, 1988
\nJennifer Bartlett, 1989
\nEric Fischl, 1990
\nPhilip Pearlstein, 1991
\nWilliam Wegman, 1992
\nSheila Metzner, 1993
\nWilliam Copley, 1994
\nDiane Arbus, 1995
\nJuan Gatti, 1996
\nLarry Rivers, 1997
\nMartin Scorsese, 1998
\nIvan Chermayeff, 1999
\nTamar Hirschl, 2000
\nManny Farber, 2001
\nJulian Schnabel, 2002
\nJunichi Taki, 2003
\nJeff Bridges, 2004
\nMaurice Pialat, 2005
\nMary Ellen Mark, 2006
\nagn\u00e8s b., 2007
\nRobert Cottingham, 2008
\nGregory Crewdson, 2009
\nJohn Baldessari, 2010
\nLorna Simpson, 2011
\nCindy Sherman, 2012
\nTacita Dean, 2013
\nLaurie Simmons, 2014
\nLaurie Anderson, 2015
\nApichatpong Weerasethakul, 2016
\nRichard Serra, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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