Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 21, 2013
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
One of the many photographs seen in Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.
The 2012 documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters chronicles the work of acclaimed Brooklyn-born photographer.
With his filmmaker-like sense of visual composition, Crewdson has created some of the most striking and gorgeously haunting pictures of the past two decades. His meticulously mounted, large-scale images offer strong narratives of small-town American life—elaborately detailed moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his memorable ads for HBO’s Six Feet Under and his album art for the band Yo La Tengo.
Directed by Ben Shapiro and shot...
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
One of the many photographs seen in Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.
The 2012 documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters chronicles the work of acclaimed Brooklyn-born photographer.
With his filmmaker-like sense of visual composition, Crewdson has created some of the most striking and gorgeously haunting pictures of the past two decades. His meticulously mounted, large-scale images offer strong narratives of small-town American life—elaborately detailed moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his memorable ads for HBO’s Six Feet Under and his album art for the band Yo La Tengo.
Directed by Ben Shapiro and shot...
- 5/6/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Title: Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Director: Ben Shapiro A documentary snapshot of American photographer Gregory Crewdson’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, exactingly arranged, melancholic portraits of small town life, director Ben Shapiro’s “Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters” is a nonfiction affirmation of the latent sorrow and loneliness attached to certain surface images, and in its own way a quiet celebration of that almost telepathic connection. An example of narrowcasting through and through — Shapiro punts on a variety of ways to expand the canvas of his storytelling — the movie achieves a certain hold for those inclined toward psycho-social rumination, but by and large fails to connect its subject’s work to [ Read More ]
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- 3/8/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Suburban Horror: Shapiro Dissects Crewdson
Ben Shapiro’s new documentary on renowned suburban photographer Gregory Crewdson is a detrimentally revealing work the focuses on his latest body of work, ‘Beneath The Roses’, which took several year to complete and consists of about fifty massive prints that commiserate with loneliness and regret. Crewdson’s photographs are meticulously staged pieces that mimic the cinematic look of motion pictures, but lack the narrative backbone that comes with making movies. Giving a face and a background to the name, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters bears bits of his upbringing and plenty regarding the process of the photographer’s hands-off approach to the artwork that carries his name, indirectly teasing out questions of authorship in art.
With help from a small film crew sized collective, each enormous photo in ‘Beneath The Roses’ is taken either on a fully fabricated sound stage or in the fleeting moments...
Ben Shapiro’s new documentary on renowned suburban photographer Gregory Crewdson is a detrimentally revealing work the focuses on his latest body of work, ‘Beneath The Roses’, which took several year to complete and consists of about fifty massive prints that commiserate with loneliness and regret. Crewdson’s photographs are meticulously staged pieces that mimic the cinematic look of motion pictures, but lack the narrative backbone that comes with making movies. Giving a face and a background to the name, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters bears bits of his upbringing and plenty regarding the process of the photographer’s hands-off approach to the artwork that carries his name, indirectly teasing out questions of authorship in art.
With help from a small film crew sized collective, each enormous photo in ‘Beneath The Roses’ is taken either on a fully fabricated sound stage or in the fleeting moments...
- 12/20/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Ben Shapiro’s excellent Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, opens tomorrow at Film Forum through Zeitgeist Films. The following interview was originally published on the eve of its SXSW Film Festival premiere.
Photographer Gregory Crewdson is renowned for his elaborately-staged photographs, huge in scope, size, and ambition. So filmmaker Benjamin Shapiro had his work cut out for him when he set out nearly a decade ago to follow Crewdson and demystify the artist’s process. But the biggest surprise of Shapiro’s long-awaited film is just how open, eloquent, and down-to-earth Crewdson is when discussing his art. Crewdson allows the audience unrestricted access to his shoots (not to mention his personal life), even taking us along as he searches for locations, subjects, and inspiration. Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters is a refreshingly frank look at the artistic process, as comprehensive and lovingly realized as the work it pays tribute to.
Filmmaker: When...
Photographer Gregory Crewdson is renowned for his elaborately-staged photographs, huge in scope, size, and ambition. So filmmaker Benjamin Shapiro had his work cut out for him when he set out nearly a decade ago to follow Crewdson and demystify the artist’s process. But the biggest surprise of Shapiro’s long-awaited film is just how open, eloquent, and down-to-earth Crewdson is when discussing his art. Crewdson allows the audience unrestricted access to his shoots (not to mention his personal life), even taking us along as he searches for locations, subjects, and inspiration. Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters is a refreshingly frank look at the artistic process, as comprehensive and lovingly realized as the work it pays tribute to.
Filmmaker: When...
- 10/29/2012
- by Dan Schoenbrun
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Zeitgeist Films has acquired Ben Shapiro’s documentary “Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters” and plans to open it at Film Forum October 31 before a nationwide release. Crewdson is an influential photographer who took inspiration from Diane Arbus, Edward Hopper and films such as “Vertigo,” “The Night of the Hunter” and “Blue Velvet” in creating his elaborately staged photographs of small-town American life. Shapiro’s documentary had its premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March. Read More: Exclusive: Zeitgeist Films Acquires Gay Jewish Comedy 'Let My People Go!' Zeitgeist has recently released “Elena,” “Payback” and “China Heavyweight.”...
- 8/22/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
Two days is not nearly enough time to cover the Woods Hole Film Festival, which started as a “one day, one hour” event over two decades ago, and now for eight days takes over this tiny idyllic town on the Cape, otherwise known for its world famous Oceanographic Institution, and where the moneyed can catch a ferry to Martha’s Vineyard. Luckily, I used my 48 hours wisely, hopping from venue to quaint venue – including the Lillie Auditorium at the Marine Biological Laboratory, the 120-seat Woods Hole Community Hall, and the 70-seat Old Woods Hole Fire Station – and taking in more solid films (especially docs) than clunkers. Not to mention rediscovering one genuine surprise that served to remind me of the timeless power of the moving image.
Though the Whff is a local, nonprofit, shoestring-budget endeavor, it does have the good fortune of being able to tap into New England’s...
Though the Whff is a local, nonprofit, shoestring-budget endeavor, it does have the good fortune of being able to tap into New England’s...
- 8/6/2012
- by Lauren Wissot
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Photo by immlass
Year in, year out, the true lone star of SXSW is the city of Austin itself, and its flagship weekly, the Chronicle, has just opened its biggest-ever microsite dedicated to the three-pronged festival (Interactive, Film, Music). SXSW Film opens tomorrow and runs through March 17, perfectly timed for sightings of the first bluebonnets springing up alongside I-35. I'll be posting notes and impressions from the first week of the festival, but for now, here's a quick skim of the previews.
In the Chronicle, Marc Savlov talks with Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon about their Opening Night headliner, The Cabin in the Woods, previews Patrick Forbes's Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies and Brian Knappenberger's We Are Legion: The Rise of the Hacktivists and talks with Gareth Evans about The Raid: Redemption.
Leah Churner meets Danielle McCarthy, producer of Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, "a new documentary about...
Year in, year out, the true lone star of SXSW is the city of Austin itself, and its flagship weekly, the Chronicle, has just opened its biggest-ever microsite dedicated to the three-pronged festival (Interactive, Film, Music). SXSW Film opens tomorrow and runs through March 17, perfectly timed for sightings of the first bluebonnets springing up alongside I-35. I'll be posting notes and impressions from the first week of the festival, but for now, here's a quick skim of the previews.
In the Chronicle, Marc Savlov talks with Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon about their Opening Night headliner, The Cabin in the Woods, previews Patrick Forbes's Wikileaks: Secrets and Lies and Brian Knappenberger's We Are Legion: The Rise of the Hacktivists and talks with Gareth Evans about The Raid: Redemption.
Leah Churner meets Danielle McCarthy, producer of Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, "a new documentary about...
- 3/9/2012
- MUBI
SXSW starts tomorrow, hotels and airfares were sold out long ago, and Austin’s data networks are already trembling. I’ll be there, and here are 20 films and other things that I’m looking forward to catching.
1. Tchoupitoulas. Bill and Turner Ross won Best Documentary at SXSW in 2009 with their doc, 45365. Their new film, Tchoupitoulas (pictured), promises to be a similarly beguiling exploration of time and place. It is about, in the words of the filmmakers, “three kids, New Orleans at night, and Music,” and it’s produced by the founding members of Court 13, whose Beasts of the Southern Wild was Sundance’s most exciting discovery this year.
2. The Sheik and I. Note to politically sensitive Middle Eastern art fairs: you don’t commission a cinematic provocateur like Caveh Zahedi to make a film about “art as a subversive act” if you can’t handle the consequences. One did, and...
1. Tchoupitoulas. Bill and Turner Ross won Best Documentary at SXSW in 2009 with their doc, 45365. Their new film, Tchoupitoulas (pictured), promises to be a similarly beguiling exploration of time and place. It is about, in the words of the filmmakers, “three kids, New Orleans at night, and Music,” and it’s produced by the founding members of Court 13, whose Beasts of the Southern Wild was Sundance’s most exciting discovery this year.
2. The Sheik and I. Note to politically sensitive Middle Eastern art fairs: you don’t commission a cinematic provocateur like Caveh Zahedi to make a film about “art as a subversive act” if you can’t handle the consequences. One did, and...
- 3/8/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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