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Film Screening of Brief Encounters and a Q+A with Angela Strassheim
Join MoCA CT for a screening of Ben Shapiro’s 2012 documentary, Brief Encounters, followed by a Q+A with photographer Angela Strassheim on Thursday July 31 at 7pm. Brief Encounters documents internationally acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s pursuit of his signature, surreal, and meticulously staged portraits of suburban life. Crewdson orchestrates dramatic, large – scale productions, setting houses ablaze, constructing 90 – foot sets with crews of sixty, and temporarily closing city streets, to manifest his haunting vision of American existence, reflecting his own anxieties, dreams, and inner desires. Brief Encounters offers an intimate study of one of our era’s most celebrated image – makers.
This documentary is 1 hour 18 minutes long.
About Angela Strassheim
Angela Strassheim was born in Bloomfield, IA in 1969. She currently lives in Easton, CT. She is an internationally recognized art photographer with an extensive multi – national exhibition record. She holds an MFA from Yale University, a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, as well as a Forensic Photography Certification from Metro – Dade in Miami Florida. Angela’s work has been exhibited in many galleries and museums including The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, The Walker Art Center, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne in Switzerland, Museum of Modern Art (MACVAL) in Paris, and the Wellcome Trust Collection in London.
She was featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2006. Her work appears in many books including ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow (Thames & Hudson), and Role Models (Scala). She recently produced the cover image and story for Time Magazine’s first issue covering the Corona Virus Pandemic. Other publications include New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Exit, Wired, Art Pulse, and Mossless. She has received awards including Women in Photography LTI Lightside Grant, Bush Fellowship, McKnight Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship. Her work is included in many public and private collections including those of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Whitney Museum of Art, Yale University Art Museum, The Israel Museum, General Mills, Sir Elton John, Anthony Podesta, Andrew Hecht and Peter Norton. Currently, Angela is working on a series of portraits through a two – way mirror titled The Visitors.
She is inviting people to come sit for a moment of vulnerability and to share a deep part of themselves while listening to a short playlist that each sitter has created for themself. This past year she has exhibited in four major group shows; Suburbia: Building The American Dream at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona & Vienna, Le fait divers: A hypothesis in 26 letters at Museum of Modern Art (MACVAL) in Paris, and Lucid Dreams which celebrates the 100th anniversary of André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
