Still to Film: Moving Images by Documentary Photographers
Pictures from a Revolution | November 10 | Monday | 7:00 pm
Indecisive Moments and Allers-Retour: A Photographer's Diary | November 13 | Thursday | 7:00 pm
Purchase Tickets Online: $12, $9 for ICP/IFC Members, $8 for seniors and children
IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue at West 3rd Street
In conjunction with the exhibition Susan Meiselas: In History, ICP will screen a series of films by the documentary photographers Susan Meiselas, Larry Towell, and Patrick Zachmann. These internationally renowned photographers, all members of the illustrious Magnum Photos, have alternately turned to filmmaking at various points in their careers to complement their photographic projects, to expand their engagement with the communities they are representing, or as a meditation on photography, memory and story-telling. For more information, call 212.857.0001.
Pictures from a Revolution (1991)
Susan Meiselas, co-produced with Richard Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti
In this lively, intellectually stimulating discourse on the power of images, renowned photojournalist Susan Meiselas returns to the scenes of a revolution she witnessed and captured with her camera. Richly suffused with context and color, Pictures from a Revolution catches up with the places and people behind Meiselas' iconic photographs of war-torn Nicaragua in the late 70s and 80s. Delving into the lives of guerrillas, Sandinistas, and bystanders, scattered from Miami to Managua, a decade after they faced off in a bloody struggle, this film finds both disappointment and modest pride amidst still-fresh, stirring memories. Once photographed wielding contact bombs and marching in the streets, these incredible Nicaraguans now live much as they did before the revolutionary days. The stories behind the acclaimed photos will ignite a new understanding of social struggle while inviting reflection on the war photographer's complex relationship with her subjects. Susan Meiselas will be in attendance for a Q&A.
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