Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/30/2015
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
South Pasadena Public Library
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“Llyn Foulkes One Man Band,” a feature documentary will be screened in the Community Room on Thursday.
The free event will also feature a live appearance by Llyn Foulkes, the internationally acclaimed painter and musician, and filmmaker Tamar Halpern. The highly acclaimed film, an official selection of the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2013, continues to delight audiences at major cultural venues across the country. It follows Foulkes from age 70 to 77 as he struggles to be recognized for his lifetime achievements. The film is co-directed and co-produced by Tamar Halpern and Chris Quilty and contains music written and performed by Llyn Foulkes on ‘The Machine.’ Many admirers regard Foulkes’ musical performances as performance art.
During the seven years chronicled in the film, Foulkes creates, destroys, and recreates a pair of large-scale 3D paintings –including one that costs him his marriage- all the while trying to keep a toe-hold in the fickle art market. Foulkes’ uncompromising career includes getting kicked out of the legendary Ferus Gallery and abandoning success as a Pop artist, only to rediscovered by the international art world at age 77. With commentary by Dennis Hopper and George Herms, and footage of an appearance on the Johnny Carson “Tonight Show,” the film reveals how Foulkes avoided “selling his soul” during his uncompromising up-and-down career that has spanned more than 50 years.
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