Creativity: An Eternal Mystery
Series sponsored by Ginger and Stu Polisner
MILTON GLASER:
To Inform and Delight
Thursday, July 9 at 7:30pm
In Person: Filmmaker WENDY KEYS
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For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and the enduring I LOVE NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos, and brand identities, to his celebrated prints, drawings, posters and paintings, the documentary offers audiences a much richer appreciation for one of the great modern renaissance men. Artfully directed by first time filmmaker Wendy Keys, the film glances into everyday moments of Glaser's personal life and capture his immense warmth, humanity and the boundless depth of his intelligence and creativity.
USA, 2000, 73 min.
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From newspapers & magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos, and brand identities, to
his celebrated prints, drawings, posters & paintings, Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight offers a rich appreciation for one of the great modern renaissance men
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IN A DREAM
Thursday, July 16 at 7:30pm
In Person: Filmmaker JEREMIAH ZAGAR
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At first glance, the grizzled, white-haired, bearded man in nondescript work clothes carrying tiles, broken glass, paint, and plaster looks more like construction worker than an artist. However, when these basic raw materials are applied to the walls of buildings that Isaiah Zagar has purchased in his South Philadelphia neighborhood the result is a fabulous public art museum. This nearly-lifelong effort has created an approximately 50,000 square foot building-to-building mosaic/mural that is both utterly unique and indescribably beautiful. Walls both within and without his buildings are sheathed in massive shattered glass and tiles in colorful designs interspersed with Picasso-like portraits. The incredible journey of Isaiah Zagar has now been captured by his son, Jeremiah Zagar, in an amazing film biography of his father’s life and work that is also a history of their family. Isaiah has kept a daily autobiography recorded in one of those old-fashioned elementary-school composition notebooks. These diary entries, rich with profuse illustrations, provide an illuminating commentary on his creations, and his family. In the course of the making of the film, the father begins to remember traumatic childhood experiences of things long past, concealed memories that will transform the relationship of father, mother, and son.
USA, 2008, 80 min.
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ilmmaker Jeremiah Zagar weaves an amazing documentary portrait of his father, the brilliant but tormented artist Isaiah Zagar, whose enormous mosaics chronicle his love
for his family and subtly hint at the darker corners of an extraordinary imagination
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