VIDEOS ON DEMAND
Robert Longo: The Acceleration of Hope
Robert Longo: The Acceleration of Hope is a rare behind-the-scenes look at Longo’s recent Pace Gallery exhibition, The Weight of Hope, as a sequel to his 2024 Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition, The Acceleration of History. The film features details of the installation process of both shows and includes exclusive interview footage. Robert Longo and curator Margaret Andera discuss the importance of The Destroyer Cycle, which Longo began in 2014 in response to the death of Michael Brown by Ferguson police, including the most recent works in the series. From socio-political to climate issues, audiences hear Longo grapple with issues of relevance and revelation, ultimately sharing the reason for all to maintain hope in these challenging times.
The Making of Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams
In 2019 The Artist Profile Archive team joined Shirin Neshat on location in New Mexico while she and her film crew created a new body of work, Land of Dreams. The resulting behind-the-scenes documentary, The Making of Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams, gives a special glimpse into the artist’s filmmaking process.
Present History
The Artist Profile Archive presents the documentary, Present History, on acclaimed contemporary artist Robert Longo, directed by Sophie Chahinian. The film, told in the artist’s own words, captures insights into Longo’s concurrent 2021exhibitions, Guild Hall’s A History of the Present and his inaugural presentation at Pace Gallery, I do fly / After summer merrily. The film features an intimate look at the artist discussing upcoming challenges while sharing his vision for his future.
Guild Hall x TAPA
If you missed our inspiring live event on July 20th at Guild Hall, you’re in luck! The program included a screening of preview scenes from our latest festival films, artist profiles and clips from our feature-length work in progress, Pictures of Pictures: The Metro Years, followed by a lively discussion with artists Robert Longo and Arcmanoro Niles, curator Kelly Taxter and The Artist Profile Archive director, Sophie Chahinian, moderated by legendary art critic and writer, Linda Yablonsky.
Mary Kelly: From Stone to Cloud
“Mary Kelly: From Stone to Cloud” is an intimate portrait of the Conceptual Feminist artist, chronicling her personal history which led her to leave her hometown in Southern Minnesota and travel the world, becoming invested in the Feminist Movement beginning with the March on Washington in 1963. Since then she has focused her work on Feminist issues including the objectification of women, maternity, and war time atrocities against women and children. From protesting the Miss World Contest in 1971, to staging Feminist inspired happenings during Documenta, Kelly asks, what is the legacy of the Women’s Liberation Movement? In the context of the present moment within which women’s rights are again hanging in the balance, her answer is both plaintive and poetic.
Shirin Neshat: Voice of a Woman
In the short documentary, “Shirin Neshat: Voice of a Woman,” internationally acclaimed and exiled Iranian American artist Shirin Neshat discusses the foremost theme of her work- women’s bodies as a locus for political and religious exploitation. Beginning in the 1990’s with her series “The Women of Allah” and carried through to her most recent exhibition “The Fury,” she continues to risk criticism and judgment as she furthers the issue of women’s rights. She also discusses the distinction between art and propaganda, which is increasingly misunderstood in our current globally divisive environment. “Shirin Neshat: Voice of a Woman” is a timely call to action to people everywhere to unify and fight for equality as women’s rights are being violated and eliminated around the world.