Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

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Documentary Program: Living in the Story

November 15, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 7:35 pm

Free

Director: Lynn Estomin
52 mins | Documentary | USA | English

Living in the Story documents thirty-five years of art making by the distinguished photographic artist Patrick Ryoichi Nagatani, one of the most brilliant photographic artists of our era. In the late 1970s, he pioneered the Contemporary Constructed Photographic Movement in Los Angeles, developing a new visual vocabulary by constructing tableau photographs from sets, sculptures, models, and paintings. The film portrays an artist deeply concerned and well informed about world events who uses imagery, storytelling, and narrative fiction to raise awareness about modern anxieties with an emphasis on the threat of nuclear weapons technology. Nagatani has also explored healing techniques and states of consciousness in which the material world is transcended. Despite the serious content of his subject matter, his innovative images are compelling and entertaining. An engaging raconteur and teacher, Nagatani talks in the film about his projects, his unorthodox photographic techniques, and his subtle weaving together of fiction and fact. Scott Nagatani’s hauntingly beautiful music score provides the film’s soundtrack.

Director Lynn Estomin expected in attendance.

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Date:
November 15, 2018
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Fleisher Art Memorial
719 Catharine St
Philadelphia, PA 19147 United States
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