The New York Public Library and MUSE Film & Television

present

Art on Screen 2008

Selections from the

26th Montreal International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)

at the Mid-Manhattan Library

455 Fifth Avenue @ 40^th Street

Sunday, February 1  2:00pm

LOOKING FOR AN ICON Directors: Hans Pool and  Maaik Krijgsman (Netherlands) 55 min./2005/color, b&w/English

An examination of how news photos become icons, with impact beyond the photographer’s control or intent. Photographers, photo editors, educators, historians, and World Press Photo jury members focus on four examples that received the “World Press Photo of the Year” award.

Sunday, February 8   2:00pm

HERE AFTER Director: Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium) 60 min./2006/color/English, French, Dutch

Director/choreographer Wim Vandekeybus and his Ultima Vez dance troupe perform this story of an isolated community in which a power-mad tyrant commands an infanticide. An adaptation of Puur (2005), presented by Ultima Vez at the Avignon Festival in 2005.

Sunday, February 15   2:00pm

CHICK'A'BONE CHECKOUT

Director: Peter Berggren (Sweden)

57 min./2006/color/English

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra commissioned Swedish composer and trombonist Christian Lindberg (b. 1958) to compose a trombone concerto for soloist Charles Vernon. The film tracks the creative collaboration between musician and composer. The resulting work, inspired by the poems of Carl Sandburg and the book Chicago by Swedish writer Jan Olof Olsson, is a tribute to the city of Chicago.

Sunday, February 22   2:00pm

JIMMY ROSENBERG — THE FATHER, THE SON & THE TALENT

(JIMMY ROSENBERG — DE VADER, DE ZOON & HET TALENT) Director: Jeroen Berkvens (Netherlands) 78 min./2006/ color/Dutch, English, Sinti, English subtitles

From childhood, gypsy guitar prodigy Jimmy Rosenberg was hailed as the next Django Reinhardt. But his promising career has been derailed by drug addiction and a destructive lifestyle.

FIFA 2008 Grand Prize winner

The 2008 ART ON SCREEN: FIFA in New York series is made possible with a grant from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, and the support of the Quebec Delegation General in New York and the Canadian Consulate General.