Meet ICP at Metrograph this summer for film screenings inspired by our exhibition Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy! Metrograph presents a collection of films that explore myriad forms of tender attachment, from romantic ardour to filial devotion. Running for four months, in tandem with Love Songs at ICP, the series concludes on Saturday, September 9th at 2:20 PM and Sunday, September 10th at 8:10 PM with exhibiting artists’ Herve Guibert’s Modesty and Shame preceded by Clifford Prince King’s Kiss of Life.
Diagnosed with AIDS and seeing the end of his life grow near, French novelist and photographer Hervé Guibert decided to document his own final moments: at home, at endless hospital visits, in conversations with his great-aunt, and during restive moments on the island of Elba. Posthumously screened on French television, the resulting film, Modesty and Shame, is a harrowing and moving document of one man facing his body’s deterioration and his own mortality with remarkable clarity, candor, and feeling. Paired with Kiss of Life, in which two HIV-positive Black men reflect on their experience living with the virus.
Want to take in the exhibition and a movie? Show your "Love Songs" x Metrograph movie ticket at ICP for reduced admission to visit the exhibition.
ICP and Metrograph members receive access to Metrograph’s At Home platform with offers exclusive, live streaming films and premieres, special introductions and conversations with your favorite filmmakers.
About Metrograph
Located two blocks from ICP, Metrograph is the ultimate destination for movie lovers. A special curated world of cinema inspired by the great New York movie theaters of the 1920s and the Commissaries of the Hollywood Studio backlots, Metrograph is a community inhabited by movie professionals screening their work, taking meetings, watching films, collaborating together — an audience built around our shared love of cinema.
