The 100 Years Show

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The 100 Years Show
Directed byAlison Klayman
StarringCarmen Herrera
Release date
  • 2015 (2015)
CountryUnited States

The 100 Years Show is a 2015 short documentary film that follows the Cuban-American abstract, minimalist painter Carmen Herrera as she celebrates her 100th birthday. [1] The film is directed by Alison Klayman, [2] who also directed Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry . [3]

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Background

Director Klayman became interested in Herrera's work after hearing about her in 2013. "When some people from Lisson Gallery told me about Carmen in fall 2013, I immediately made plans to visit her in New York. I thought she had a lot of wisdom to impart and a fascinating life story to accompany a stunning body of work, but also I was excited that telling her story would challenge me in several ways," Klayman said in an interview with T: The New York Times Style Magazine . [4]

The film follows Herrera through her current daily work schedule while also taking a look at her long life. [5]

The film premiered on Netflix and Vimeo On Demand on Sunday, September 18, 2016. [6] A screening of the film accompanied the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition of Herrera's work, "Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight." [7]

On January 11, 2017, The 100 Years Show premiered in New York City at Film Forum alongside Everybody Knows...Elizabeth Murray, a film exploring the life and work of Elizabeth Murray. [8] The screening received positive reviews from multiple sources, including Hyperallergic, [9] Film Journal International, [10] The Guardian, [11] The Huffington Post, [12] The New York Times, [13] and was featured in a segment on CBS This Morning . [14]

On January 10, 2017, in anticipation of the screening, director Alison Klayman and the director of Everybody Knows...Elizabeth Murray, Kristi Zea, appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC radio in a segment titled, "Shattering the Art World’s Glass Ceiling." [15] During the interview Klayman states, "This isn't a story of an older person who suddenly decided to take up painting...this is the story of a full life, of basically a full century of working."

Critical reception

The film premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, ON, Canada. [16] The film won Best Documentary Short at the 2015 Heartland Film Festival, [17] the Ozark Foothills Film Festival, the Ashland Independent Film Festival, the River Run International Film Festival, the DOCUTAH Film Festival, [18] and the Indigo Moon Film Festival. It won Best Director and Best Editing at the DOCUTAH Film Festival as well.

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  2. ↑ Cheng, Jennifer (2013-08-09). "Q&A: Alison Klayman, Director of Documentary on Dissident Ai Weiwei | TIME.com". World.time.com. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  3. ↑ Larry Rohter (2012-07-20). "Inside the Documentary 'Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry' - The New York Times". The New York Times . Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  4. ↑ Symonds, Alexandria (2016-09-16). "Watch a 101-Year-Old Painter Argue Against Talking About Art". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  5. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3861876/ [ user-generated source ]
  6. ↑ "The 100 Years Show available on Netflix USA". Usa.nownetflix.com. 2015-04-28. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  7. ↑ Richard B. Woodward (2016-10-11). "'Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight' Review: Fortune Comes to Those Who Wait". WSJ. Retrieved 2016-11-04.
  8. ↑ "Film Forum · EVERYBODY KNOWS… ELIZABETH MURRAY-with-THE 100 YEARS SHOW". Filmforum.org. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  9. ↑ "Elizabeth Murray's and Carmen Herrera's Diverging Routes to Artistic Success". Hyperallergic. 2017-01-11. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  10. ↑ "Film Review: Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray and The 100 Years Show | Film Journal International". Filmjournal.com. 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  11. ↑ Hattenstone, Simon (2016-12-31). "Carmen Herrera: 'Men controlled everything, not just art'". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  12. ↑ Frank, Priscilla (2017-01-03). "Let A 101-Year-Old Artist Show You How To Handle Sexist Double Standards". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  13. ↑ Kenny, Glenn (2017-01-10). "Review: 'Everybody Knows ... Elizabeth Murray' and Now You Will Too". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  14. ↑ "Artist Carmen Herrera, 101 years old, gets Whitney Museum solo exhibit in New York" . Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  15. ↑ Shattering the Art World's Glass Ceiling , retrieved 2017-01-13
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