One Day Only Loft Screening of UA Professor's Documentary

 

From: Pierce, Lisa Ann - (lisapierce) [mailto:lisapierce@email.arizona.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 1:52 PM
Subject: One Day Only Loft Screening of UA Professor's Documentary

CONTACT: Lisa Pierce, Director of Marketing & Development | (520) 626-2686 | lisapierce@email.arizona.edu
CONTACT: Jeff Yanc, Program Director | (520) 322-5638 | jeff@loftcinema.org

The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television

HBO Documentary Film BRILLO BOX (3¢ OFF) to Screen One Day Only at a Special
Screening at the Loft Cinema, Sunday, September 24, 2pm, Followed by a Conversation
with Writer/Director Lisanne Skyler & The Loft Cinema Program Director Jeff Yanc

Tracking the Remarkable Journey of an Iconic Andy Warhol Sculpture from One Family’s Living Room through the Global Art Market

Tucson, AZ - The critically acclaimed HBO Documentary Film BRILLO BOX (34: OFF) BRILLO BOX (34: OFF) will screen for one time only at Tucson’s The Loft Cinema on Sunday, September 24, at 2pm, as part of Arthouse Theatre Day 2017.

Lisanne Skyler, the film’s writer and director, and UA School of Theatre, Film & Television professor, will participate in a conversation with The Loft Cinema’s program director Jeff Yanc following the screening. An official selection of the 54th New York Film Festival, BRILLO BOX (34: OFF) debuted on HBO August 7, and is available exclusively on all HBO platforms.

Over 40 UA School of Theatre, Film & Television alumni and students contributed to Skyler’s documentary, from development through promotion.

In 1969, Lisanne Skyler's parents bought an Andy Warhol “Brillo Box (34: Off)” sculpture for $1,000. An exact replica of a shipping carton for Brillo soap pads, Warhol’s Brillo Boxes were initially dismissed by the art world. But 40 years later, with Warhol’s reputation long secured, the same piece sold for more than $3 million at a record-breaking Christie’s auction. Blending a humorous family narrative with Pop Art history, Brillo Box (3¢ Off) follows this iconic work as it makes its way from a New York family’s living room to the contemporary global art market, exploring the ephemeral nature of art and value, and the decisions that shape a family’s history.

In 1964, Andy Warhol shocked the art world by making hundreds of replicas of supermarket shipping cartons and presenting them as art. His most notorious were the Brillo Boxes, which he created by silk-screening the original Brillo packaging art, designed by abstract impressionist James Harvey, onto wooden boxes that were the exact same sizes as the supermarket originals. Originally selling for $200, Martin and Rita Skyler purchased a yellow Brillo Box for $1,000 in a New York art gallery in 1969. Two years later, Martin decided to trade the Brillo Box for a drawing by abstract artist Peter Young in 1971. Forty years after the Skylers sold their Brillo Box, Lisanne Skyler, now a filmmaker, learned it was going to be auctioned in New York at Christie’s. She filmed the auction, and, combining that footage with archival video, reenactments and interviews with her parents and contemporary art world figures, began to reconstruct her family’s Brillo Box history.

In addition to interviews with Martin and Rita Skyler, BRILLO BOX (34: OFF) includes insights from several high-profile names in the contemporary art world, including: Laura Paulson, chairman, Americas at Christie’s; Jessica Todd Smith, the Susan Gray Detweiler Curator of American Art and Manager of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; art critic and historian Irving Sandler; Eric Shiner, former director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; writer, curator and dealer Kenny Schachter; artist Nancy Mozur; artist and teacher Phung Huynh; Daniel Wolf, producer of “Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film”; John Armaly, president and CEO of Armaly Brands, owner of the Brillo brand; and Peter Young, the artist whose work replaced the Brillo Box in the Skyler home.

BRILLO BOX (34: OFF) was written, directed, and produced by Lisanne Skyler; editor and UA Film & Television alumna, Jeanna French; producer, Judith Black. For HBO: supervising editor, Geof Bartz, A.C.E.; senior producer, Lisa Heller; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.

For more information: www.brilloboxmovie.com

 

-------------------------------------

Tucson Theatre Announcement List
TucsonStage.com for subscription information