Virtual Membership
ONLINE—Behind the Scenes of Gathering Clouds
Mmebers are invited to join us as Associate Curator Heather Shannon and Assistant Conservator Sarah Casto discuss the examination, analysis, and conservation treatment of a range of photographs, including Alfred Stieglitz’s Equivalents, to prepare them for Gathering Clouds.
ONLINE—Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s greatest songwriter, grew up only four hours from Rochester, in Orillia, Ontario. Moving back and forth through time, the film details his career, his battle with substance abuse, and his success with the songs “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” and “Carefree Highway.”
George Eastman Museum receives $70,000 in grant awards from Art Bridges
ONLINE—Sunless Shadows
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Documentarian Mehrdad Oskouei takes his camera inside a juvenile detention center for his fourth film focusing on the Iranian prison system. This time, he follows and interviews a group of young women convicted of murder, generally their fathers or husbands.
ONLINE—It Can't Not Be Dance Music: New Music Inspired by the Art of James Welling
The Eastman Museum, fivebyfive, and Marc Webster explore the intersection of art and music in this virtual program inspired by the Eastman Museum’s current exhibition James Welling: Choreograph.
ONLINE—Represent
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. In the vein of last year’s Knock Down the House, documentarian Hillary Bachelder follows three women running for local and state offices in 2017 and 2018. Through their campaigns and the aftermath, these women struggle with being heard, their own past, and the responsibilities of representative government.
Gaucho – Outtakes of Technicolor Inserts, The
Colorful Fashions from Paris Displayed by Hope Hampton—McCall’s Color Fashion News
Black Pirate – Mary Pickford Technicolor No. 2 Test, The
ONLINE—The August Virgin
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Instead of heading out on her holidays, Eva decides to stay in Madrid for the beginning of August. She looks after a flat for a friend who is going out of town. Director Jonas Trueba re-teams with actress Itsaso Arana in a story about finding yourself past a time when you should already know who you are.
ONLINE—Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Virual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe.
ONLINE—My Prince Edward
Virtual Dryden Theatre | Streaming Online. Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong’s go-to one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn’t exempt Fong from social pressure to marry. As Fong redefines her best life and writer-director Norris Wong reclaims her home city's narrative from outsiders in this debut, their courage sparks thrills and will make you wholeheartedly cheer for a woman’s independence and a new age in Hong Kong cinema.
Stacey Steers: Night Reels
Night Reels comprises a body of work combining paper collage, animation, and sculpture by the artist Stacey Steers.
Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown
Throughout his career, Carl Chiarenza has demonstrated that photographs can provide much more than just documentary evidence.
ONLINE—Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
Artist Abelardo Morell's work has quite literally been a reflection of nature, often using glass, lenses, and mirrors to make abstractions of his subject matter. Join us for the start of our Wish You Were Here series as Morell discusses a range of his projects throughout his extensive career.
ONLINE—Gathering Clouds Panel Discussion, Part 1
For this first panel, Alejandro Cartagena, Sean McFarland, and Will Wilson will discuss the ways their work engages with environmental issues, including pollution and climate change.
ONLINE—Gathering Clouds Panel Discussion, Part 2
For this second panel, Sharon Harper, Nick Marshall, Penelope Umbrico, and Byron Wolfe will discuss how clouds have informed their thinking about the nature of photography.
ONLINE—Clouds & Combination Printing
In this live online program, Process Historian Mark Osterman will discuss the nineteenth-century technique of combination printing from two separate negatives.
ONLINE—Early Optics in Photography
Process Historian Mark Osterman will demonstrate how light can be manipulated and used for photography and share the basics of optics that were foundational in the invention of photography.