Cornell Cinema continues its new venture as a participant in First Friday Gallery Night (gallerynightithaca.com), a monthly 5 – 8pm walking tour of downtown Ithaca galleries, with a 9:15pm screening of an art documentary at Cinemapolis. In February, we’ll revisit Thomas Riedelsheimer’s stunning documentary, Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time (2001), about internationally acclaimed environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy, whose 2008 stone sculpture "Sapsucker Cairn" can be seen in a quiet corner of Cornell's Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary. The film features a musical score by composer Fred Frith, who will be visiting Cornell in late February to both perform and talk about composing music for film. Details of his visit can be found here. Then, in March, we’ll present the Ithaca premiere of Eames: The Architect and the Painter (2011), about Charles and Ray Eames, the designers who are “largely credited with bringing modernism into the American living room with their now ubiquitous contoured chairs, [and] may have also helped to comfortably contextualize the philosophy of European modernists within our own post-war progressivism.” (Slant Magazine)
So grab a bite to eat after you finish touring the galleries and
then stop by Cinemapolis for a film about art, the perfect way to end
your evening. Tickets for the downtown screenings are $7 all (no comps,
discount cards or passes accepted). Films will also be offered at least
once on campus in Willard Straight Theatre for regular Cornell Cinema
prices.
Art Docs Downtown is cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts,
the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance.