KLARA takes place in a little town where Klara moves together with her mother after her parents divorce. She feels alienated and has hard time making friends. Most of the girls in Klara’s class go horse-back riding, so she joins the riding school to fit in. In order not to reveal that she’s a total beginner, Klara is forced to lie, but before she can reign in the lies, she’s signed up for a big riding competition… Her salvation comes in the form of Jonte, a boy her own age, who helps her practice in secret on the ugly horse Star that nobody else wants — but who proves to be a real star after all. A story about the first awkward steps out of childhood, the exciting stirrings of first love, and then about horses of course.
October 1989 www.amazon.com Watch the full program: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Film footage courtesy of Turin Film Corp.: www.youtube.com Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from abstract expressionism to pop art through conversations with artists in their studios. Artists appearing in the film include Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland. Barnett Newman (January 29 1905 – July 4 1970) was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. Barnett Newman wrote catalogue forewords and reviews before having his first solo show at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1948. Soon after his first exhibition, Newman remarked in one of the Artists’ Session at Studio 35: “We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.” Throughout the 1940s he worked in a surrealist vein before developing his mature style. This is characterised by areas of color separated by thin vertical lines, or “zips” as Newman called them. In the first works featuring zips, the color fields are variegated, but later the colors are pure and flat. Newman himself thought that he reached his fully mature style with the Onement …