RETRATOS DE SAM WAGSTAFF Y ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

Estados Unidos-Alemania / USA-Germany

2007
Doc, 76 min

Black white + gray confirma la transformación de Sam Wagstaff de curador innovador educado en Yale y de clase alta a amante y mecenas de Robert Mapplethorpe. Durante los años 70s y 80s, la escena artística de la ciudad de Nueva York brillaba con un nuevo espíritu, y Mapplethorpe estaba al centro de él. Wagstaff lo sacó de los suburbios de Queens, le dio una cámara y lo introdujo a este mundo del arte que parecía haber estado esperándolo, creando al hombre cuyas imágenes inspirarían tantas emociones desde el asombro hasta la furia. A cambio, Mapplethorpe le presentó a Wagstaff el mundo de las drogas y el sexo gay, lo que ha quedado bien documentado en sus fotografías que aún asombran. Veinticinco años separaban a los amantes, pero su relación era tan simbiótica que se mantuvieron juntos por siempre.

Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff’s transformation from innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. During the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a new spirit, and Mapplethorpe would be at the center of it. Wagstaff pulled him from his suburban Queens existence, gave him a camera and brought him into this art world that seemed to be waiting for him, creating the man whose infamous images instilled emotions ranging from awe to anger. In turn, Mapplethorpe brought the formerly starched-shirt preppie to the world of drugs and gay S&M sex, well-documented in his still-startling photographs. Twenty five years separated the lovers, but their relationship was symbiotic to its core, and the two remained together forever.

Dirección/Director: James Crump
Guión/Screenplay: James Crump
Fotografía/Cinematography: Christopher Felver, Harry Geller, Paul Lundahl, Eric Koziol, David Kohn
Música/Music: J. Ralph
Sonido/Sound: Matt Gundy
Edición/Editor: David Giles
Producción/Produced by: James Crump, Stanley Buchthal, David Koh, Maja Hoffmann James Crump Productions, L M Media, GmbH, Arthouse Films
Intérpretes/Cast: Sam Wagstaff, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Henry Geldzahler, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Dominick Dunne, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Richard Tuttle, Agnes Martin
Narrador/Narrator: Joan Juliet Buck

JAMES CRUMP
Es escritor, director y productor, con un doctorado en historia del arte de la Universidad de Nuevo México. Ha sido curador de fotografía en el Instituto de
Investigación del Sexo de Kinsey. Entre otros trabajos, es el autor de “F. Holland Day: Suffering the ideal” y “George Platt Lynes: Fotografías del Instituto Kinsey” y coautor de “When we were three: the travel albums of George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Wescott”. Black White + Gray es su debut como director de un largometraje.

He is a writer, director and producer. He holds a Ph.D. in art history from University of New Mexico and has served as curator of photography at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. Among other works, he is the author of “F. Holland Day: Suffering the Ideal” and “George Platt Lynes: Photographs from the Kinsey Institute” and coauthor of “When We Were Three: The Travel Albums of George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler, and Glenway Wescott”. Black White + Gray is his debut effort as a feature director.

Filmografía/Filmography:
Black White + Gray (doc) 2007

Contacto/Contact: Marit Lighart [email protected]

Proyecciones / Screenings:
VIE 7/ Fri. CINÉPOLIS GRAN PLAZA SALA 11. 21:00 hs
LUN 10/ Mon. CINÉPOLIS GRAN PLAZA SALA 11. 19:30 hs

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