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 Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation, screening on August 19 and 20.
The August 19 screening will be followed by a Q&A with two producers and the composer of the film.
A combination of video diary, dysfunctional family scrapbook, found footage documentary, and pop musical elegy, Caouette’s poignant, powerful breakthrough film tells the harrowing story of the filmmaker’s life, from his mother’s damaging exposure to electroshock therapy in his youth, a pedigree rife with abuse, addiction, and abandonment, and his own unlikely survival through escape into musical theater and cinematic self-expression.
“Adrift in a selectively arranged saga of breakdowns, foster homes, abuse, attempted suicide, and brain damage, the artist clutches his camera as though it were a life raft, and apparently he survives.”—J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
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.
The next film in the series will be Chantal Akerman’s News From Home.
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.
