Film Series: Louise Bourgeois goes to the movies

“After a long day working in her Chelsea brownstone or her industrial Brooklyn studio on 347 West 20th Street, Bourgeois often went to the pictures, heading midtown to Film Forum or around the block to the Quad. The 1970s and 1980s were a golden age of repertory cinema in New York City, and Bourgeois regularly attended Anthology Film Archives, The Paris Theatre and the fabled Bleecker St Cinema, with its double bills of arthouse and foreign-language films.

This series is both a snapshot of a historical moment of New York film culture and an intimate chronicle of the movies which piqued the interest of a famously erudite, opinionated artist.”

The series will be accompanied by a selection of resonant shorts by artists including Edward Owens, Soda Jerk, Maria Lassnig, Jackie Wolf and more. One featured filmmaker, Jane Campion, describes Bourgeois as an art idol: ‘Nothing compares with her uneasy mix of beauty, truth-sharing, dark hidden memories, pain, shame and comedy. She’s gone to the depths. She will lead you there and keep you there.’