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Film screening and discussion: Laurel Nakadate (director)Post an Event »

San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

November 2 - November 2, 2009

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Starts with screening of: Stay the Same Never Change (2009; 93 min.) Laurel Nakadate is known for powerful video and photographic work in which artist, subject, and viewer are entangled in an unsettling blend of seduction, power, trust, tenderness, loss, and betrayal. Such psychological complexity is likewise evident in her first feature-length film, Stay the Same Never Change (2009). Blurring documentary, narrative, and performance art traditions, the film comprises a series of naturalistic vignettes that portray everyday Middle America by following the solitary lives of distantly connected young women. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and screened at this year’s New Directors/New Films festival at MoMA in New York City. Nakadate received a BFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an MFA at Yale University. Venues at which Nakadate has exhibited include El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Berkeley Art Museum, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (MoMA) in Long Island City (New York), the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.