Pirosmani
Schedule
Sat Nov 26 2022 at 02:30 pm
Location
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive | Berkeley, CA
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FEATURINGAvtandil Varazi, Dodo Abashidze, Givi Aleqsandria, Spartak Bagashvili,
Pirosmani is a poetic biography of the great Georgian primitive artist Nikoloz (Niko) Pirosmanishvili (1862–1918), who worked prior to 1920. Shengelaia avoids the usual clichés of films about artists’ lives, successfully experimenting with color control techniques based on the painter’s style. Avtandil Varazi plays the gentle, uncompromising artist, who sold his paintings to bars and restaurants for food and drink and worked mostly in solitude. After its American premiere at BAMPFA in 1974, this delicately expressive film won the Grand Prize at the Chicago Film Festival and went on to international critical acclaim.
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Where is it happening?
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
