- Tuesday, March 06, 2012
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Rineke Dijkstra Selects
Date + Time
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
noon
Location
Phyllis Wattis Theater
Overview
Johan van der Keuken, Blind Kind, 1964, 27 min., 35mm.
Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999, 15 min., video
Pierre Huyghe, Blanche-Neige Lucie, 1997, 4 min., 16mm transferred to DVDOne of the most highly regarded photographers of her generation, Dijkstra is best known for psychologically probing portraits of people in states of transition, including her Beach Portraits, a series in which adolescents are posed alone against a background of sea and sky. For this special event, she has assembled a short program featuring some of her favorite film and video works, including Blind Kind, Johan van der Keuken's poetic 1964 documentary of blind children that offers insight into their perception of the world around them (in Dutch with English subtitles).
Participants
Introduced by Lisa Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, SFMOMA
Admission + Ticketing
Museum and program admission are free.
Blind Kind screens courtesy of EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Mrs. N. van der Lely.
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore screens courtesy of Cabinet Gallery.
Blanche-Neige Lucie screens courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery and Pierre Huyghe.
Image: Johan van der Keuken, Blind Kind, 1964; courtesy and collection EYE Film Instituut Nederland
