LIVING IN THE STORY
presented by visiting filmmaker Lynn Estomin
Living in the Story documents thirty-five years of art making by the distinguished photographer Patrick Ryoichi Nagatani. In the late 1970s, he pioneered the Contemporary Constructed Photographic Movement in Los Angeles, developing a new visual vocabulary by constructing tableau photographs from sets, sculptures, models, and paintings.
The film portrays an artist deeply concerned and informed about world events, who uses imagery, storytelling and narrative fiction to raise awareness about modern anxieties, particularly the threat of nuclear weapons technology. Nagatani has also explored healing techniques and states of consciousness in which the material world is transcended.
Despite the serious content of his subject matter, his innovative images are compelling and entertaining. An engaging raconteur and teacher, Nagatani talks in the film about his projects, his unorthodox photographic techniques, and his subtle weaving together of fiction and fact. Scott Nagatani’s hauntingly beautiful music score provides the film’s soundtrack.
FILM WEBSITE
Lynn Estomin is a video and interactive media artist whose documentaries have been exhibited at film festivals internationally and broadcast nationally on PBS. She teaches digital art and design at Lycoming College in PA.
Tuesday, Sept. 4
6:30p Food & Social
7:00p Screening & Discussion
The film portrays an artist deeply concerned and informed about world events, who uses imagery, storytelling and narrative fiction to raise awareness about modern anxieties, particularly the threat of nuclear weapons technology. Nagatani has also explored healing techniques and states of consciousness in which the material world is transcended.
Despite the serious content of his subject matter, his innovative images are compelling and entertaining. An engaging raconteur and teacher, Nagatani talks in the film about his projects, his unorthodox photographic techniques, and his subtle weaving together of fiction and fact. Scott Nagatani’s hauntingly beautiful music score provides the film’s soundtrack.
FILM WEBSITE
Lynn Estomin is a video and interactive media artist whose documentaries have been exhibited at film festivals internationally and broadcast nationally on PBS. She teaches digital art and design at Lycoming College in PA.
Tuesday, Sept. 4
6:30p Food & Social
7:00p Screening & Discussion
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