Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 21, 2013
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
One of the many photographs seen in Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.
The 2012 documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters chronicles the work of acclaimed Brooklyn-born photographer.
With his filmmaker-like sense of visual composition, Crewdson has created some of the most striking and gorgeously haunting pictures of the past two decades. His meticulously mounted, large-scale images offer strong narratives of small-town American life—elaborately detailed moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his memorable ads for HBO’s Six Feet Under and his album art for the band Yo La Tengo.
Directed by Ben Shapiro and shot...
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
One of the many photographs seen in Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.
The 2012 documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters chronicles the work of acclaimed Brooklyn-born photographer.
With his filmmaker-like sense of visual composition, Crewdson has created some of the most striking and gorgeously haunting pictures of the past two decades. His meticulously mounted, large-scale images offer strong narratives of small-town American life—elaborately detailed moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his memorable ads for HBO’s Six Feet Under and his album art for the band Yo La Tengo.
Directed by Ben Shapiro and shot...
- 5/6/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Title: Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Director: Ben Shapiro A documentary snapshot of American photographer Gregory Crewdson’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, exactingly arranged, melancholic portraits of small town life, director Ben Shapiro’s “Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters” is a nonfiction affirmation of the latent sorrow and loneliness attached to certain surface images, and in its own way a quiet celebration of that almost telepathic connection. An example of narrowcasting through and through — Shapiro punts on a variety of ways to expand the canvas of his storytelling — the movie achieves a certain hold for those inclined toward psycho-social rumination, but by and large fails to connect its subject’s work to [ Read More ]
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- 3/8/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Suburban Horror: Shapiro Dissects Crewdson
Ben Shapiro’s new documentary on renowned suburban photographer Gregory Crewdson is a detrimentally revealing work the focuses on his latest body of work, ‘Beneath The Roses’, which took several year to complete and consists of about fifty massive prints that commiserate with loneliness and regret. Crewdson’s photographs are meticulously staged pieces that mimic the cinematic look of motion pictures, but lack the narrative backbone that comes with making movies. Giving a face and a background to the name, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters bears bits of his upbringing and plenty regarding the process of the photographer’s hands-off approach to the artwork that carries his name, indirectly teasing out questions of authorship in art.
With help from a small film crew sized collective, each enormous photo in ‘Beneath The Roses’ is taken either on a fully fabricated sound stage or in the fleeting moments...
Ben Shapiro’s new documentary on renowned suburban photographer Gregory Crewdson is a detrimentally revealing work the focuses on his latest body of work, ‘Beneath The Roses’, which took several year to complete and consists of about fifty massive prints that commiserate with loneliness and regret. Crewdson’s photographs are meticulously staged pieces that mimic the cinematic look of motion pictures, but lack the narrative backbone that comes with making movies. Giving a face and a background to the name, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters bears bits of his upbringing and plenty regarding the process of the photographer’s hands-off approach to the artwork that carries his name, indirectly teasing out questions of authorship in art.
With help from a small film crew sized collective, each enormous photo in ‘Beneath The Roses’ is taken either on a fully fabricated sound stage or in the fleeting moments...
- 12/20/2012
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
Ben Shapiro’s excellent Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, opens tomorrow at Film Forum through Zeitgeist Films. The following interview was originally published on the eve of its SXSW Film Festival premiere.
Photographer Gregory Crewdson is renowned for his elaborately-staged photographs, huge in scope, size, and ambition. So filmmaker Benjamin Shapiro had his work cut out for him when he set out nearly a decade ago to follow Crewdson and demystify the artist’s process. But the biggest surprise of Shapiro’s long-awaited film is just how open, eloquent, and down-to-earth Crewdson is when discussing his art. Crewdson allows the audience unrestricted access to his shoots (not to mention his personal life), even taking us along as he searches for locations, subjects, and inspiration. Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters is a refreshingly frank look at the artistic process, as comprehensive and lovingly realized as the work it pays tribute to.
Filmmaker: When...
Photographer Gregory Crewdson is renowned for his elaborately-staged photographs, huge in scope, size, and ambition. So filmmaker Benjamin Shapiro had his work cut out for him when he set out nearly a decade ago to follow Crewdson and demystify the artist’s process. But the biggest surprise of Shapiro’s long-awaited film is just how open, eloquent, and down-to-earth Crewdson is when discussing his art. Crewdson allows the audience unrestricted access to his shoots (not to mention his personal life), even taking us along as he searches for locations, subjects, and inspiration. Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters is a refreshingly frank look at the artistic process, as comprehensive and lovingly realized as the work it pays tribute to.
Filmmaker: When...
- 10/29/2012
- by Dan Schoenbrun
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Photographer Gregory Crewdson is renowned for his elaborately-staged photographs, huge in scope, size, and ambition. So filmmaker Benjamin Shapiro had his work cut out for him when he set out nearly a decade ago to follow Crewdson and demystify the artist’s process. But the biggest surprise of Shapiro’s long-awaited film is just how open, eloquent, and down-to-earth Crewdson is when discussing his art. Crewdson allows the audience unrestricted access to his shoots (not to mention his personal life), even taking us along as he searches for locations, subjects, and inspiration. Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters is a refreshingly frank look at the artistic process, as comprehensive and lovingly realized as the work it pays tribute to.
Filmmaker: When did you first discover Gregory Crewdson’s art? What about it inspired you to make this film?
Shapiro: I first discovered Gregory Crewdson when I filmed him for the PBS series...
Filmmaker: When did you first discover Gregory Crewdson’s art? What about it inspired you to make this film?
Shapiro: I first discovered Gregory Crewdson when I filmed him for the PBS series...
- 3/5/2012
- by Dan Schoenbrun
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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