It was a real homecoming, indeed! How wonderful it was to experience The Faithful alongside such an amazing audience, and to get to speak with everyone to answer questions and discuss the film after. Thank you, O Cinema!
Read MoreMIAMI! The Faithful’s Miami Premiere at O Cinema
The Faithful comes to O Cinema in South Beach!
Read MoreJason Kohn Confirmed to Moderate the 10/11 THE FAITHFUL Q&A following the 7pm screening at the Laemmle Playhouse 7, Los Angeles →
Jason Kohn, award-winning director, will be joining us to moderate our post-screening Q&A on Monday, October 11th at the Playhouse 7 in Los Angeles (Pasadena) at 7:30PM. Jason Kohn’s film Manda Bala is cited on many lists of the best documentaries of all time, and for good reason. Join us! Tickets and Info
Read MoreThe One and Only Henry Jenkins to Moderate the Q&A with Director Annie Berman following the October 10th matinee screening of THE FAITHFUL at Los Angeles' Laemmle Monica Film Center
Henry Jenkins will moderate 10/10 Q&A at The Laemmle Monica Film Center, following the matinee screening of The Faithful: The King, The Pope, The Princess with director Annie Berman. Join the conversation! Tickets and more info
Read MorePHOTOS FROM LAST NIGHT'S EXTRAORDINARY IN-PERSON THEATRICAL PREMIERE
It was an emotional evening to see THE FAITHFUL premiere on the big screen with an audience in full surround sound during Elvis Week after 20 long years in the making. Thank you to Indie Memphis, Crosstown Arts, Brighid Wheeler, Miriam Bale, Justin Thompson, Augusta Palmer, Adam Hohenberg, Sara Theriault, Anna Feder, Diana Trushell, Haw-Bin Chai, and all who came!!
Read MorePremiere Screening of “FACE THE EARTH” by Ming-Chuan Huang Documentary on artist Chin Chih Yang →
I'm looking forward to seeing this film. I had the great pleasure of collaborating on some of the US-based shooting. Congratulations to Chin Chih and Ming on the film's premiere!
Nov 18 2017
2:00pm–4:00pm
Renowned Taiwanese filmmaker Ming-Chuan Huang partners with Taiwanese American performance artist Chin Chih Yang to explore the artist’s lifelong focus on the culture of waste. FACE THE EARTH puts viewers right next to Yang as 30,000 aluminum cans are dumped on his head to call our attention to the vast amount of waste each of us creates – the average person uses and discards 30,000 cans in their lifetime! Sit alongside Chin Chih and passersby in New York City’s storied Union Square, on a giant block of ice and ponder the possibility that the polar ice cap will be gone by 2050. Watch the public participate with the artist to help him create his Giant Can Family at the Contemporary Art Museum of Taipei. Learn how he makes sturdy whole cloth out of discarded potato chip bags and gain insight into how each of us can FACE THE EARTH and contribute to her resuscitation.
This 85-minute documentary film intersperses scenes of the artist at work with in-depth interviews with Tom Finkelpearl, The Commissioner of Cultural Affairs of the City of New York; Dr. Martha Wilson, Founding Director of Franklin Furnace Archive; Michael L. Royce, Executive Director of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Robert C. Morgan, Ph.D. – Artist/Art Critic, Steve Cannon – A Gathering of the Tribes, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful – artist, Jeffrey Grunthaner – writer, James Leonard – Artist, John Downing Bonafede – Artist, John Ahearn – Artist, Manfred Kirchheimer – film maker / professor of film at SVA, Heidi Jain – photography teacher and others. Directed and Produced by Huang Mingchuan, and produced by Formosa Filmedia Company, FACE THE EARTH includes footage by Annie Berman, Wang Yi Chang, Ray Huang, Liu Kuanting, Wang Shau-gung, Nick McGovern, Sen-I Yu, Doll Chao, Johanna Naukkarinen, Jing Wang, Susan L Yung and others. Photography by Rodrigo Salazar, John Bonafede, John Ahearn, Justen Ladda, Tom Otterness, Julie Lemberger and others.
Screening is followed by Q&A with the artist and light refreshments.
Admission is free, but since seating is limited we request that you RSVP HERE.
FACE THE EARTH is sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Taiwan, and copyrighted 2017 by Ming-Chuan Huang and Chin Chih Yang
About Chin Chih Yang
Multidisciplinary artist Chin Chih Yang was born in Taiwan, and has resided for many years in New York City. He holds degrees from Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Among other honors, he has been awarded grants by The New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Franklin Furnace Archive, MacDowell Colony and more. Yang’s interests in ecology and constructed environments have resulted in interactive performances and installations in the United States, Poland, Finland, Austria, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has exhibited/performed at Rockefeller Center, the United Nations, Union Square Park, The Queens Museum, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Exit Art, Flux Factory and in 2016 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei hosted a major retrospective. All told, Yang strives to lead audiences to a more direct awareness of the effects of contemporary technology and engender compassion for all humanity.
About Ming-Chuan Huan
Born in Chiayi, Taiwan in 1955, Huang Ming-Chuan lives now in Taipei. Graduating from the Department of Law of National Taiwan University, he left Taiwan to study Lithographic Printmaking in Art Students League of New York and Fine Arts and Photography at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Huan’s feature film THE MAN FROM ISLAND WEST claimed an Excellent Cinematography Award at Hawaii international Film Festival and a Silver Screen Award at Singapore international Film Festival in 1990. In 1998 his FLAT TYRE was awarded Best film in the non-commercial category at Taipei Film Festival and Jury Award at the Golden Horse Festival, Taiwan. As a documentary director, Huang has made numerous documentaries on art subjects and won the first Taishin Arts Award’s Visual Arts Prize in 2003. He has served as a board member of Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation (2000-03), National Film Archive Foundation (2002-05), Public Television System Foundation (2005) and CTV (2008-present). Huang was chairman of international jury of Taishin Arts Award’s Visual Arts Prize (2005), and feature length competition juror of Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2008). He was elected as Chairman of the National Culture and Arts Foundation in early 2008. Ming-Chuan has been the artistic director of the Chiayi City International Art Doc Film Festival since 2014.
For more information please contact Harley Spiller, 917-553-4831
Feature Image: Taiwanese artist Chin Chih Yang performance of “Kill Me or Change”, Queens Museum of Art, 2012
UTOPIA 1.0 comes to Vermont's STREAM CHAPTER 3
UTOPIA 1.0: Post-Neo-Futurist-Capitalism in 3D! will be coming to South Windham, Vermont, August 6 and 7th as part of STREAM Chapter 3 exhibit curated by Two Chairs. STREAM Chapter 3 is "A site-specific art exhibition intended to focus attention on the environment, global warming and the changing landscape of Vermont."
Excited to be part of this incredible group of artists at this inspired site.
STREET VIEWS to screen PVDFEST 2016, Friday, June 3rd
Friday, June 3rd, Sundown. STREET VIEWS screens PVDFest 2016, as part of the "Ephemeral Gestures" Video Program curated by Judith Tolnick Champa and Leora Maltz-Leca. 100,000 visitors are expected to attend the second annual arts festival of live music, dance, food, and visual art installations transform the city in a four-day, multi-arts take-over of public spaces, parks, and outdoor stages in the heart of Providence, Rhode Island.