Summer School presents Gus Van Sant and James Franco
My Own Private River
30 Jul - 29 Sep 2011
Installation view of the exhibition "Summer School presents
Gus Van Sant and James Franco: My Own Private River"
July 30th, 2011–August 29th, 2011. INPS1.1048.9. Photograph by Matthew Septimus.
Gus Van Sant and James Franco: My Own Private River"
July 30th, 2011–August 29th, 2011. INPS1.1048.9. Photograph by Matthew Septimus.
30 July - 29 August, 2011
The collaborative film by Gus Van Sant (American, b. 1952) and James Franco (American, b. 1978), My Own Private River, is comprised of unused footage and dailies from Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. My Own Private River focuses on the character Mike, played by Phoenix. The film is more observational and less linear than its original iteration, creating a dreamlike, more associative sensibility.
Additional films that inform the discourse of Summer School 2011 will also be on view, including Satantango (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) by Bêla Tarr, Jeanne Dielman (1975) by Chantal Akerman, Stroszek (1977) by Werner Herzog, and other films by Gus Van Sant.
My Own Private River is shown as part of Summer School 2011.
Summer School is a new initiative of lectures and discussions at MoMA PS1 that bring students together to take part in conversations around contemporary practice with artists, authors, musicians, curators, theorists, and scholars.
My Own Private River is made possible by the Annual Exhibition Fund with support from Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, Richard Chang and Tina Lee, Adam Kimmel, Peter Norton and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, Beth Swofford, David Teiger, Agnes Gund, Dana Farouki, Sydie Lansing, John Comfort, Philip E. Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons, Mimi Haas, and Enzo Viscusi, with additional funding from The Director's Circle of MoMA PS1, The Contemporary Circle of MoMA PS1, and Byron R. Meyer.
The collaborative film by Gus Van Sant (American, b. 1952) and James Franco (American, b. 1978), My Own Private River, is comprised of unused footage and dailies from Van Sant's 1991 film My Own Private Idaho, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. My Own Private River focuses on the character Mike, played by Phoenix. The film is more observational and less linear than its original iteration, creating a dreamlike, more associative sensibility.
Additional films that inform the discourse of Summer School 2011 will also be on view, including Satantango (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) by Bêla Tarr, Jeanne Dielman (1975) by Chantal Akerman, Stroszek (1977) by Werner Herzog, and other films by Gus Van Sant.
My Own Private River is shown as part of Summer School 2011.
Summer School is a new initiative of lectures and discussions at MoMA PS1 that bring students together to take part in conversations around contemporary practice with artists, authors, musicians, curators, theorists, and scholars.
My Own Private River is made possible by the Annual Exhibition Fund with support from Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, Richard Chang and Tina Lee, Adam Kimmel, Peter Norton and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, Beth Swofford, David Teiger, Agnes Gund, Dana Farouki, Sydie Lansing, John Comfort, Philip E. Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons, Mimi Haas, and Enzo Viscusi, with additional funding from The Director's Circle of MoMA PS1, The Contemporary Circle of MoMA PS1, and Byron R. Meyer.