Le Conversazioni: Films of My Life
Award-winning architect Daniel Libeskind
and acclaimed artist Marina
Abramovíc speak with author
and film scholar Antonio
Monda about the films that have influenced their work.
Thursday, May 9 at 7:00 PM
The Morgan Library & Museum (225 Madison Avenue, b/w 36th
and 37th Streets)
Ticket and
other information below.
On Thursday, May 9 at 7:00 PM,
award-winning architect Daniel Libeskind
and acclaimed artist Marina Abramovíc
kick off this year’s Le Conversazioni festival, which celebrates the
relationship between film and the disciplines of art, architecture and
literature. During a program entitled Films of My Life, the two visionaries will
speak with the author and film scholar Antonio Monda, the festival’s
artistic director, about the movies that have influenced their work. This is
the third year that Mr. Monda has offered New Yorkers a taste of the popular
event he hosts each year on the island
of Capri.
Among the films the trio will discuss
are four of Mr. Libeskind’s favorites – “Eyes Without a
Face” (1960), a French-Italian horror film directed by Georges Franju;
“The Consequences of Love” (2004), an Italian psychological
thriller directed by Paolo Sorrentino; the Hitchcock mainstay “North by
Northwest” (1959); and “This is Not a Film” (2011), an
Iranian documentary by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb – and four
that Ms. Abramovíc has found inspirational – “The Color of
Pomegranates” (1968), an Armenian film written and directed by Sergei
Parajanov; “Teorema” (1968), a mystery written and directed by Pier
Paolo Pasolini; “Last Year at Marienbad” (1961), the French classic
directed by Alain Resnais; and “Breaking the Waves” (1996) directed
by Lars von Trier.
EVENT:
Le Conversazioni:
Films of My Life – Award-winning architect Daniel
Libeskind and acclaimed artist Marina Abramovíc speak with author and film
scholar Antonio Monda about the films that have influenced their work.
LOCATION:
The Morgan Library & Museum (225
Madison Avenue, b/w 36th and 37th
Streets)
DATE & TIME:
Thursday,
May 9 at 7:00 PM
EVENT PAGE:
www.themorgan.org/public/program.asp?id=611
WEBSITE:
www.themorgan.org
Tickets:
$15 ($10 for Morgan members; free for students with valid ID). RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED.
Box Office:
(212)
685-0008, ext. 560 or www.themorgan.org
MEDIA
CONTACT:
Alix Friedman, afriedman@lakpr.com, 212-329-1412
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