An Independent Portrait
The Documentary Salon loves to present outstanding work from the filmography of its members.This month, we screen José Muniain's award-winning film of the encounter of two great artists.
In An Independent Portrait, film director Robert Young sits for his first formal portrait with the Spanish painter Félix de la Concha, in a Pittsburgh studio. As we watch de la Concha's painting unfold, Young discusses his career filming and living with subjects ranging from nomadic Eskimo tribes to Sicilian slum-dwellers, Angolan rebels to American civil rights revolutionaries. In the process the two artists discuss their calling. What drives people to do independent work? How do creative people find their subjects? How they are supported, thwarted and inspired by what goes on around them?
Produced in 2006, An Independent Portrait screened in festivals in the US and Spain, and won the Audience Choice Award at the Three Rivers Film Festival.
An Independent Portrait is available now to view online. José will join us for a Zoom discussion of the film on Monday, June 14 @ 8:00p.
VIEW THE FILM HERE
JOIN THE DISCUSSION HERE.
From the director:
"I've always been attracted to films where the action plays out in real-time, a concept that evolves as you watch, the excitement of witnessing a moment where something real is happening. That’s how I approached An Independent Portrait. I wanted to create a situation and let it evolve it in an unscripted way."
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