A part of Keith Haring’s interconnected art world, Arthur Russell was a cellist, experimental composer, disco producer, and music director for the Kitchen. Frequenting Lower Manhattan’s underground dance clubs and lofts, Russell engaged in the full breadth of the music scene, playing freely with its transcendent possibilities. Like so many of his generation, Russell died during the AIDS crisis and never lived to see the full impact of his creative work. Filmmaker Matt Wolf incorporates archival footage and commentary from Russell’s family, friends, and closest collaborators in this moving documentary. 2008, US, DCP, 71 min.
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Bio
New York–based filmmaker Matt Wolf has made numerous short films about artists and queer history, including Bayard & Me on the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who adopted his younger boyfriend in the early 1980s to obtain equal rights; HBO’s It’s Me, Hilary, about the Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight; I Remember, about the artist Joe Brainard; and The Face of AIDS for Time magazine, about a notorious 1992 Benetton advertisement. His most recent short, Another Hayride, about the self-help guru Louise Hay, was released by The New York Times’ Op-Docs and PBS’ POV series. Wolf’s features include Wild Combination, about the cult cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell; Teenage, about early youth culture and the birth of teenagers; Recorder, about the activist Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years; and Spaceship Earth, about Biosphere 2, a controversial experiment where eight people lived quarantined inside a replica of the planet. Wolf is also a writer, who organizes film screenings and public events, and curated film for the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Wolf is a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
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Contains flashing lights/strobe effects.
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