My recent film Fragments will screen on May 28th at 12PM at the Quality Coins Gallery in Yucca Valley, CA as part of the current exhibition of Derek Boshier's work. Derek and I will both be present for a Q&A in conjunction with the film.
The Great Ice Cream Robbery at BFI Film on Film Festival.
Still from The Great Ice Cream Robbery (1971), dual screen film projection. Pictured are Claes Oldenburg and Hannah Wilke.
The Great Ice Cream Robbery will be presented at the BFI Film on Film Festival on June 10th, at 6:20 PM.
This will be a rare showing of the dual-screen projection in its original 16mm.
This work, created in 1971, documents Claes Oldenburg setting up his solo exhibition at the Tate, and features Hannah Wilke accompanying the artist on his trip to London.
More details about this screening on the BFI's Film on Film Festival site.
Elements of a Journey: Antoni Tàpies debuts at FilmArte Festival
Elements of a Journey: Antoni Tàpies had its festival debut at the FilmArte Festival in May 2023. This festival is dedicated to showcasing film work that dives deeper into the lives and work of artists. I am very pleased that the film could have it’s initial screening in Spain, the birthplace of Tàpies.
William Scott, Blue, Grey, Blue, 1960, Oil on canvas, 48" x 73"
© Copyright William Scott Estate.
Courtesy of William Scott Foundation.
William Scott & Mark Rothko at Anita Rogers Gallery
Anita Rogers Gallery is happy to announce the upcoming gallery show of William Scott and Mark Rothko. The exhibition will be from April 26 - June 3, 2023.
The gallery is located at:
Anita Rogers Gallery
New York Contemporary Art
494 Greenwich Street, Ground Floor
New York, New York 10013
The Elephant Trust Grant Award
We were thrilled to get the notice from The Elephant Trust about the grant awarded to my upcoming film 'Elements of a Journey: Antoni Tàpies.' This film has been almost 50 years in the making and is very close to being complete! Every little bit of financial assistance helps, so we are always happy to have a bit of positive news in our email inbox.
25 Encounters - IFFR book and screening
To celebrate their 50th anniversary, IFFR recently created a book and screening series featuring 25 encounters between people affiliated with the festival.
I am please to be included within the series that is now available as a publication (https://iffr.com/en/blog/25-encounters) available for purchase and with the accompanying screening of A Commonplace Story available until May 5th.
Fragments at FICUNAM 2022
FICUNAM, the wonderful festival in Mexico City, will host two screenings of my recent film Fragments (2019), about the artist Derek Boshier:
16th March – Cinépolis Diana – 13:30h
18th March – Centro Cultural Universitario – 12:00h
Le Cinéma Club features Love's Presentation
Le Cinéma Club, a free online streaming platform, is featuring Love's Presentation for one week, starting Friday, March 4th. The site hosts a variety of film format’s with a special emphasis on lesser seen and short films.
Le Cinéma Club,’s format provides a great opportunity to view Love’s Presentation, my 1966 documentary about the artist David Hockney, on demand for a limited engagement.
Barney Platts-Mills (1944 - 2021)
Platts-Mills, left, with his fellow film-makers Marc Karlin, Julian Ormsby-Gore and James Scott in 1965
EVENING STANDARD/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES
The Times recently published a nice obituary about my longtime filmmaking partner, Barney Platt-Mills. He will be missed.
New Works at the Jack House Gallery exhibition "Images of Los Angeles"
James Scott will have two new mixed media works and a new film at the upcoming exhibition, Images of Los Angeles, at the Jack House Gallery in Portsmouth, England. The exhibition opens on October 4th and was curated by Derek Boshier. Images of Los Angeles features 22 artists from the Los Angeles area, providing their unique perspectives on the city.
Webinar Discussing Fragments hosted by Garth Greenan Gallery
Garth Greenan Gallery hosted a webinar on May 14, 2021, with James Scott, artist Derek Boshier (the subject of Scott’s recent film Fragments), and Rachel Garbade, the gallery's assistant director and archivist, This hour long discussion between friends Scott and Boshier, discussed the creative process in art and filmmaking. If you did not have a chance to catch the discussion live, an archive of the program is available for viewing on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/549460389.
James Scott Interview featured in Senses of Cinema
An interview with James Scott by Sofie Cato Maas was featured in issue 97 of Senses of Cinema. The profile discusses Scott’s long creative career, as filmmaker and painter.
FRAGMENTS has World Premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020
Snapshot of Catalog for IFFR 2020
Fragments made its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 in late January. Known for its emphasis on experimentation and artistry, this year IFFR 2020 included a new section to their line-up: The Tyger Burns. In this portion of their programming, IFFR focused on films that were produced by older, active filmmakers that had been a presence at IFFR in the past.
Realizing many current festivals emphasis on the new, IFFR wanted to provide counterpoint programming and concept.
“There also is a more current aspect of the programme: in recent times, IFFR and other festivals alike focused ever more strongly on new and emerging filmmakers. For many older directors, festivals mainly offer lifetime achievement awards plus maybe some retrospectives and artist talks, implying that their time has passed. The Tyger Burns will attempt to transcend this, challenging the notion that our time, our Zeitgeist, belongs (only) to the young.” - IFFR website
Scott was present for Q&A at all screenings and was thrilled at the opportunity to present his new film in the familiar space of IFFR, a festival that had shown his work extensively as a young filmmaker.
Love's Presentation - Exhibition News + Art Forum review
Films by James Scott, Etchings by David Hockney at Anita Rogers Gallery, featuring Love’s Presentation, received a lovely review in Artforum. The review, written by Sasha Frere-Jones, can be found here:
https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201908/david-hockney-and-james-scott-80856
Love’s Presentation will also be included in the upcoming exhibition Alan Davie and David Hockney, Early Works at the Hepworth Wakefield Museum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England from 19 October 2019 - 19 January 2020.
Nightcleaners and '36 to '77 to screen at Bertha Dochouse
Nightcleaners and '36 to '77 to screen at Bertha Dochouse accompanied by panel discussions on both evenings.
Nightcleaners THU 31 OCTOBER, 2019:
https://dochouse.org/cinema/screenings/nightcleaners-intro
This screening will be introduced by Sally Alexander, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths University of London who was also a leading figure in the Cleaners Action Group during the campaign. She will be joined for an informal discussion before the film with member of the Berwick Film Collective Humphry Trevelyan and James Scott.
'36 to '77 WED 6 NOVEMBER, 2019 https://dochouse.org/cinema/screenings/36-77-qa
This screening will be followed by filmmaker Q&A hosted by Helen Dewitt a curator and lecturer in Film Studies at Birkbeck and University of the Arts London.
William Scott exhibition at Anita Rogers Gallery, October 16 - December 21, 2019
William Scott CBE, RA (1913-1989), acclaimed British artist of the Post-war generation was, together with Peter Lanyon and Patrick Heron, considered one of the giants of the Modernist movement in the UK. Patrick Heron, who also doubled as ‘one of the finest art critics of the century’, wrote perceptively of Scott’s work. ‘It is the sensation of space and depth in a painted flatness,’ he explained in 1953, ‘that inspires much contemporary painting. Scott is a brilliant exponent of it.’
This exhibition aims to highlight a selection of works from the artist’s mid to late career, and introduce, or in some cases re-introduce, the artist to the New York public. The exhibition will feature work from the early 1950s through the 1980s, including abstract work as well as his domestic still-life’s. Images from his iconic Poem for a Jug and Orchard of Pears series are included.
For additional information on the exhibition, please visit anitarogersgallery.com
Two Screenings of Love's Presentation at Metrograph Theater in New York
We are happy to announce two screenings of Love’s Presentation at Metrograph Theater in NY. With the premiere of the restored A Bigger Splash, Metrograph has curated a collection of short films about David Hockney that are screening as a program on Monday 7/1 @ 8:00pm & Sunday 7/7 @ 1:15pm.
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Art Films by James Scott, Etchings by David Hockney at Anita Rogers Gallery
The exhibition presents the full series of etchings created by David Hockney, based on the poetry of CP Cavafy, together with the film Love's Presentation. Scott followed the process of making the prints while Hockney collaborated through improvising a highly entertaining and instructional voice over. Also featured as part of the exhibition are audio recordings of Hockney reading the love poems that inspired the etchings.
This is the U.S. debut of this cinema and prints event which premiered earlier in the year in Cologne, Germany.
Art Films By James Scott
Etchings By David Hockney
Screening of the film at 6PM, June 19th. Reception to follow.
Address: 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10013
Exhibition continues from June 19 - July 27, 2019.
Daily screenings of James Scott's additional art films. The schedule can be found at:
http://www.anitarogersgallery.com/news/the-art-films-of-james-scott-screening-schedule
All Men Become Sisters catalog from Sternberg Press
All Men Become Sisters exhibition catalogue now available
All Men Become Sisters, an exhibition in 2016 at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, now has a catalog that is both an overview of the exhibition and an extension of the core concepts of “feminist perspectives on work, production, and reproduction” with the inclusion of additional essays. The film Nightcleaners (1975), by the Berwick Street Film Collective, was featured in the exhibition and in the publication.
The publication can be purchased at Sternberg Press.
Every Picture Tells a Story at Museum of Orange Heritage
Every Picture Tells a Story will screen at the Museum of Orange Heritage, Sloan’s House, Loughgall as part of the discussion of the art William Scott. The event is free to all and the accompanying discussion will be led by Cardwell Mcclure, William Scott’s nephew.
March 28th, 2019
7:30 PM
Museum of Orange Heritage, Sloan’s House, Loughgall