Sophie Calle Celebration: Art21 Segment + “Double Blind/No Sex Last Night”

One of the most influential artists of our time, Sophie Calle is featured in a new documentary short from Art21. This film explores over five decades of Calle’s autobiographical and profoundly touching work that has inspired generations of artists and art admirers. Across countless works of photography, film, writing, and installation, the artist playfully explores the universal themes of love, death, connection, and loss. 

Following the short film, Calle’s feature-length film “Double Blind/No Sex Last Night” will play. The film is an autobiographical account of a road trip from New York to California made by artists Sophie Calle and her then partner Greg Shephard. Armed with video cameras, the two chronicle their journey in Shephard’s car, capturing two unique versions of the same events, complicating notions of intimate relationships, experience, and memory. 

This program is part of Art21 at the Movies. Art21 at the Movies is Art21’s foremost public program. The biennial event gathers artists, filmmakers, and art lovers for premieres, screenings, and engaging conversations with artists.

For the second iteration of Art21 at the Movies, programming will focus on the theme Between Worlds, the theme of the second episode of Art in the Twenty-First Century’s twelfth season. How do artists navigate the spaces in between? How do they create works that exist between cultures, fictions, migrations, and cosmologies? Expanding on the theme of this episode allows Art21 to highlight artists previously featured in Art21 films and to engage artists, filmmakers, and curators in contemplating this theme with us.

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