One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting — 2021
16mm color film, continuous loop, optical sound, 50 ½ min
Director: Tacita Dean
Cinematography: Trevor Tweeten
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One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting continues Dean’s tradition of artists’ portraits using the medium of film. Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu, who in 2020 would have shared a birthday exactly five decades apart, are shown here in dialogue in a moving double-portrait. Filmed in Santa Monica on 3 January last year, the film features a congruence of lives which have overlapped in serendipitous ways, with musings on painting, motherhood, nature/ecology and more.
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