Film Forum

Kristi Zea brings to her debut, EVERYBODY KNOWS…ELIZABETH MURRAY, all the visual smarts she developed as a costume designer and award-winning production designer for Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme, among others. A friend of Murray’s since the 1980s, the filmmaker captures the vivacious artist’s flair for color and shape. Murray’s zany, fractured canvases feature paeans to domesticity (crying children, coffee cups) as they fairly burst with the remarkable good humor and energy the artist herself exhibited even in the final days of her life. Murray’s journals are read by Meryl Streep and art world luminaries Roberta Smith, Paula Cooper, Jennifer Bartlett, and Vija Celmins testify to both her life and work. An exhibition of Murray’s work, curated by Carroll Dunham & Dan Nadel, is on view through January 29 at CANADA (333 Broome Street, NYC). 

PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY KRISTI ZEA 
USA    2016   60 MINS.   TASKOVSKI FILMS

Carmen Herrera, subject of THE 100 YEARS SHOW is probably the oldest working artist in America, not to mention the most patient. The 101-year-old Havana-born Herrera, a New Yorker since 1954, works in the same minimal, hard-edged geometric aesthetic as acclaimed masters Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly – artists whose work gained recognition in the 1950s and 60s. At age 94, Herrera became “the discovery of the decade” (The Observer, London) and her solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum – currently on view, extended through January 9 – was termed “ravishing” (The New York Times) and “exhilarating” (The Wall Street Journal).

PRODUCED, DIRECTED, AND FILMED BY ALISON KLAYMAN
USA    2015   30 MINS.  RATPAC DOCUMENTARY FILMS

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