5:30-9 p.m.: Cash bar open
6:30-8 p.m.: Film screening of Duane Michals – The Man Who Invented Himself  in CMOA Theater
France/USA | Camille Guichard | 2013 | 85 min

“I’m not interested in what something looks like, I want to know what it feels like…My reality has entered a realm beyond observation.”–Duane Michals

Duane Michals’s photography speaks to universal themes of love, desire, mortality, and memory. Duane Michals: The Man Who Invented Himself follows Michals, humorous and 80 years young, to some of his favorite locations in New York, Vermont, and his native Pittsburgh. The film ruminates on the people and places that have deeply impacted him and his and photography: his father’s and grandfather’s steel worker heritage in Pittsburgh; his studio life in New York, where he has lived for many years with his partner Fred; and his country home in Vermont, the location for much of his time and work around themes of nature.

Curator Linda Benedict-Jones and co-producer Veronique Bernard, from Terra Luna Films, introduce the film.

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