Outsiders on Screen: GREY GARDENS introduced by scholar Tess Takahashi
GREY GARDENS introduced by scholar Tess Takahashi
dirs. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer / 1976 / 94 min.
Friday, March 11, 2016 at 7pm
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
Its fingernails-down-blackboard wonderfulJane Giles, Sight and Sound
Classic documentary ... The subject of the film is performance, and the filmmakers are no mere observers of the action, theyre its catalysts.Richard Brody The New Yorker
Considered one of the best documentary films of all time, this cult classic chronicles the lives of mother and daughter Big Edie and Little Edie Beale in their flea, cat and raccoon-infested home, Grey Gardens. The Beales thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, where intimate conversations are interspersed with private celebrations Big Edie's birthday party and "public" reminiscences of their past life in New York high society. This impossibly intimate portrait of the Beales established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen, and inspired both a Broadway musical and a made-for-HBO drama.
GREY GARDENS screens as part of the seven-part series "Oursiders on Screen," presented as an extension of the exhibition "Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s 1980s" #OutsidersAGO, opening March 12.
The provocative and influential films and videos in this series feature intimate and transgressive portraits of subjects who, in wildly diverse ways, challenge systems of authority and normative notions of cultural and personal identity.
Single tickets:
Members $10 Public $12 Students $8
Full series package all seven films:
Members $60 Public $72 Students $48
