Arts Days Lethbridge: Keeping it Reel Film Festival

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Keeping It Reel Film Festival

September 27 & 28

Two nights, two art documentaries!

CHARCOAL AND CLAY: JEAN PIERRE LAROCQUE (Directed by Bruno Boulianne, 52m, Canada, 2019)

September 27 (outside, upstairs Casa Patio) 9pm – 10pm

After spending 15 years in artistic and academic explorations at different American schools and universities, painter and ceramicist Jean-Pierre Larocque returned to Montreal at the turn of the 2000s. In this portrait film, Larocque opens his studio to viewers. Using charcoal “reluctantly” and grinding away slate like so many layers of skin, he is a creator of unfathomable sensitivity who shapes intriguing, enchanting works that play on time and eras while reminding us of our own human ghosts. In this portrait film, artist Jean-Pierre Larocque opens the doors of his workshops to us. Working “backwards” with charcoal and pressing clay like so many layers of skin, we discover an artist of unfathomable sensitivity, producing intriguing, enchanting works that toy with time and eras while reminding us of our own phantoms of humanity.

ANSELM (Directed by Wim Wenders, 93m, Germany, 2023)

In Anselm, Wim Wenders creates a hypnotic portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. The film explores the overawing beauty of human existence, landscape, and myth while confronting the horrors of his country’s history and seeking to undo the postwar silence in which both artist and director came of age. Through archival footage, biographical scenes, and direct access to his subject at work amid the massive installation in France where he now lives among his creations, Wenders traces the arc of Kiefer’s career, provoking an engagement with creativity through the senses, the intellect, and the spirit.

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• AAC Website artslethbridge.org

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Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge

The Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge enhances, supports, promotes, and advocates for the arts in Lethbridge and southern Alberta.