SATURDAY, JUNE 17 – 5:30 PM with filmmaker Adam Samuel Goldman in person for Q+A moderated by Zed Adams!
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OBGB presents POSTHUMOUS PROPERTY, two video essays about inordinate attempts to maintain control over artists’ intellectual property after their deaths:

THE MARK TWAIN COMPANY
dir. Adam Samuel Goldman, 1999
30 mins. United States.
In English.

Adam Samuel Goldman’s THE MARK TWAIN COMPANY recounts how the titular company was founded in 1908 as a way of establishing unprecedented legal control over an artist’s public persona.It has never been released onVHS/DVD. Goldman will attend the screening, and participate in a post-screening discussion with Zed Adams from the New School for Social Research.

“Adam Goldman‘s deadpan inventory of the evolution of Twain’s familial and cultural bequests constitutes a canny critical treatise on relations between artists, estates, heirs, intellectual property, and public memory. Masterfully controlled, the half-hour work offers crucial insights into how artistic intentions are unexpectedly transformed by historical forces.” – Craig Baldwin

THE FANCY
dir. Elisabeth Subrin, 2000
35 mins. United States.
In English.

Elisabeth Subrin’s THE FANCY uses recreations of Francesca Woodman‘s photographs to expose the ways that Woodman’s posthumous lionization involved both her family and the art world pigeonholing Woodward’s work into preconceived categories.

“[THE FANCY is] one of the most moving evocations of the irreplaceable quiddity of a person. … Somehow Ms. Subrin confers immortality on her subject while at the same time making vivid her irrevocable absence.” – A. O. Scott, The New York Times

This is the first installment of the OCCASIONAL BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY (OBGB) documentary series.