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California College of the Arts (SF)

February 23 - February 23, 2011

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1111 Eighth Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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Presented by the Film Program Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus CCA's Film Program invites you for an artist talk with multimedia artist and filmmaker Laurel Nakadate. Who Is Laurel Nakadate? Laurel Nakadate is a photographer, video artist, and filmmaker. She has made her mark by taking on the thorniness of female adolescence, exploring the arcane psyche of single men, and testing the boundaries between exploitation and empathy, which led New York Times critic Ken Johnson to call her “smart and scarily adventurous.” "The Film Program lecture series lets students see living examples of artists who are actively crossing—and breaking—boundaries in filmmaking and moving-image art," explains Brook Hinton, associate professor and assistant chair. "As a storytelling medium, film is still so young compared to most other disciplines. We believe exposing students to filmmakers like Gus Van Sant and Laurel Nakadate, who are expanding the capacity of film to make us think and feel and new levels, is a crucial part in the education the 21st century filmmaker." Nakadate's work has been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide. In 2009 her first feature film, Stay the Same Never Change, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and went on to be featured in New Directors / New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center in New York. Her second feature, The Wolf Knife, premiered at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for a 2010 Gotham Independent Film Award and a 2011 Independent Spirit Award. Nakadate’s work is in many public and private collections including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Saatchi Collection, and the New York Museum of Modern Art. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York, where she lives. Related Learn more about the artist's multiplatform presentation, Fever Dreams, February 23–22, at the San Francisco Film Society. Read the SFFS press release