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January 6, 2007 - February 3, 2007
Brent Green
Bellwether
134 10th AveWe are thrilled to invite you to the opening of our next exhibition—Brent Green’s “Paulina Hollers”. In addition to the exhibition Brent Green has a series of upcoming events we wanted to bring to your attention.
January 10, IFC Film Center, NYC, “Brent Green presents an evening at the IFC” January 18-28, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, screenings of “Paulina Hollers” January 23, Knitting Factory, NYC, screening and live performance with The Magik Markers February 15-16, Walker Art Center, MN, screenings of “Paulina Hollers”
Brent Green “Paulina Hollers” January 6-February 3, 2007
BELLWETHER is proud to present Brent Green’s first solo exhibition in New York. An animated-film maker from Maryland, Green’s films use the beauty of detritus and the hand-made to create dystopic worlds inspired by his own family history.
At Bellwether, Green will exhibit two short films, several animated drawings and a sculpture related to his most recent short film, Paulina Hollers, a modern Appalachian folk tale of empathy, tragedy, and hope.
Paulina Hollers follows the story of a disagreeable boy’s death and banishment to Hell, his distraught mother’s suicide, and their bid for escape from the underworld. The film alternates between the three dimensional living world where Paulina, a hand carved wooden figure in a skeletal dress, lives amongst crooked homes and spinning birds, and a hand-drawn Hell populated by spindly Giacometti-like characters. Exposing his creative process with visibly numbered drawings and scotch tape revealed on screen, Green’s film progresses anxiously from one scene to the next, depicting a kind of melancholy that is a captivating image of fantasy and human pathos.
Additionally, the gallery will be screening Carlin, shot in Green’s childhood home. Haunted by a wooden skeleton, a raffia haired figure in a wheelchair, chickens, and bees, the film moves through the unfurnished run down home to provide a brief but telling glimpse of the space which inspired Green’s present work and aesthetic.
A self-taught filmmaker based in Cressona, Pennsylvania, Brent Green’s work has received great acclaim with a project at the Hammer Museum and screenings at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, Wexner Center, and The Getty Museum. Paulina Hollers was realized with the support of a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation.
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