GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE

Portrait of Garry Winogrand, Renowned Photographer of American Life,

Receives World Premiere at 2018 SXSW Film Festival

 

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American Masters Pictures and Submarine Entertainment are pleased to present the 2018 SXSW Film Festival world premiere of GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE, a documentary portrait of American photographer Garry Winogrand, widely considered to be one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, the film will receive its first screening on Monday, March 12 as part of the festival’s Documentary Feature Competition.

GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE is the first documentary film on the life and work of Garry Winogrand—the epic storyteller in pictures of America across three turbulent decades of the last century. Celebrated in his lifetime and quickly forgotten after his death, Garry Winogrand is nonetheless your visionary ancestor—even if you have never published an image in a magazine or hung a print on the wall of a museum. His “snapshot aesthetic,” once derided by the critics, is the universal language of contemporary image-making.

From the late 1950s to the early 1980s, the Bronx-born Winogrand photographed with dazzling energy and incessant appetite, exposing some 20,000 rolls of film over his career and leaving behind more than 10,000 following his sudden death in 1984. These images capture a bygone era: the New York of Mad Men and the early years of the Women’s Movement, the birth of American suburbs, and the glamour and alienation of Hollywood. Daily life in postwar America—rich with new possibility and yet equally threatening to spin out of control—seemed to unfold for him in a continuous stream.

In addition to hundreds of iconic photographs and footage created as Winogrand roamed city streets and 1960s protests, the film makes use of 8mm home movies of his parents, three wives and children, as well as newly discovered audiocassette tapes of the photographer, who speaks revealingly—and often wittily—of his personal life and the making and meaning of art. Forged by his own words and images, GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE is a stunningly intimate portrait of a man who both personified his era and transformed it.

GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE was directed, produced and edited by Sasha Waters Freyer in association with American Masters Pictures. Executive producers are Michael Kantor of American Masters, David Koh, Alice Koh and Dan Braun. The film is co-produced by Submarine Entertainment. Cinematography is by Eddie Marritz with original music by Ethan Winogrand.

Sasha Waters Freyer makes non-fiction films about outsiders, misfits and everyday radicals. Trained in photography and the documentary tradition, her past projects have screened at the Telluride, Rotterdam, Tribeca, Big Sky, Havana, Videoex, and Ann Arbor film festivals; the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Union Docs, the Pacific Film Archive, L.A. Film Forum, and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, as well as the Sundance Channel and international cable and public television. She is the Chair of the Department of Photography and Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.

SXSW Screenings:
Monday, March 12, 11:00 am – Alamo Ritz (320 E. 6th St. by Trinity St.)
Tuesday, March 13, 11:00 am – Alamo Lamar (1120 S. Lamar Blvd by Treadwell St.)
Thursday, March 15, 12:00 pm – Alamo Lamar (1120 S. Lamar Blvd by Treadwell St.)

90 min. USA. Acquisition title (Sales: Submarine Entertainment).

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Content Source:  ©2018 American Masters Pictures and Submarine Entertainment/ Photos ©The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. All Rights Reserved.