The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving ImageJune 19, 2008 to September 7, 2008Part II: Realisms The second part of the Hirshhorn’s exploration of contemporary moving-image art, Realisms, looks at a decade of film, video and digital works that investigate how cinema—now encompassing such related media as television, home video and digital entertainment—communicates, amuses […]

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving ImagePart I: Dreams February 14, 2008 – May 11, 2008 This two-part exhibition features moving-image artworks by a range of influential and emerging international artists whose works use film language and technology to explore the ever-increasing impact of the cinematic on our perceptions and the ways in […]

I plan to see this show this weekend so don’t have any comment on it at this point other than it offers a somewhat unexamined perspective on early film. The exhibit shows the connections between early film subject matter and that of American realist painting that was going on during the same era. Works used […]