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 continues with Chantal Akerman’s News From Home, screening on Friday, August 25 and Saturday, August 26. Saturday’s showing will feature an introduction from Sara Raza, the curator of ICP’s exhibition Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, and Collier Schorr, one of the artists with work on view in the exhibition.
Akerman was 26 years old and living in New York City, away from her native Belgium and her mother, when she teamed with DP Babette Mangolte to film this diary/essay/poem in subway stations and on street corners, their images to eventually be paired with Akerman’s recitals of her mother’s fretful letters. Arguably this extraordinary filmmaker’s most perfect and poignant nonfiction work, both one of the greatest portraits of a city ever put on film and a troubling, touching depiction of maternal love.
“Love Songs” Tour & Film Screening Double Feature
Turn it into a double feature! Join ICP’s Curator’s Tour with Sara Raza on Saturday, August 26 from 1:30-2:30 PM and then head down to Metrograph to see News from Home at 3 PM. Purchase a Metrograph ticket to the screening here and select the Metrograph Double Feature Ticket option to receive a discount on the Curator’s Tour.
Want to come back to see the show another time? 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.
