Documentary feature George Dureau: New Orleans Artist New Orleans screening OUTSHINE LGBTQ+ FILM FEST IN FT. LAUDERDALE OCT. 20
We’re pleased to announce George Dureau: New Orleans Artist is an official selection of the 2024 Outshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida!
It’s an honor to bring Dureau’s work to a new audience, and we hope more people will consider both his work and his life in New Orleans worth the time.
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George Dureau: NEW ORLEANS ARTIST @The Broad Theatre, Thursday Nov.21 @7PM
Thanks to The Broad Theatre, George Dureau: New Orleans Artist is set to return to New Orleans on Thursday, November 21 at 7PM.
We’re also pleased to announce GD:NOA will screen as an official selection of Outshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale on October 20.
The film recently made its European debut at Fifigrot 13 International Film Festival in Toulouse and we look forward to bringing Dureau’s work and his New Orleans to the West Coast in 2025.
George Dureau: NEW ORLEANS ARTIST @The Broad Theatre, Thursday Nov.21 @7PM
Seating is limited, so New Orleans patrons are encouraged to order tickets early via the links below. Drinks at The Broad Bar @6PM.
George Dureau: New Orleans Artist, Thursday Nov 21 @ The Broad Theatre
http://www.thebroadtheater.com/event/7pm-21-november-2024-george-dureau-new-orleans-artist-w-filmmakers-sergio-andres-lobo-navia-jarret-lofstead/
DIRECT PURCHASE TICKETS:
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George Dureau: NEW ORLEANS ARTIST @outshine film festival
October 20 @ 12:45 PM
Paradigm Cinemas Gateway Theater
1820 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
VIRTUAL
Monday, October 28 @12:00 AM through Sunday, November 3 @11:59 PM
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ABOUT GEORGE DUREAU: NEW ORLEANS ARTIST (78 min, 2024)
Focusing on the life and career of New Orleans artist George Dureau (1930-2014), his models, and the changing cultural and economic landscape of New Orleans, George Dureau: New Orleans Artist tells the story of a New Orleans that no longer exists.
Featuring rarely seen archival footage, photos, and contemporary interviews with Dureau’s friends and family, George Dureau: New Orleans Artist examines race, sexuality, and class through the lens of one of the 21st century’s most important, if unsung, photographers.
The film is the debut feature from filmmakers Sergio Andrés Lobo-Navia and Jarret Lofstead, and is produced by The Bend Media + Productions, an independent production collective founded in 2013 and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The filmmakers began researching the project in 2016, and after pandemic-related delays, went into production in 2023.
Accompanying the film are songs by New Orleans musicians Alex McMurray and Bernard Pearce (1975-2022) and an original score by New Orleans composer Oscar Rossignoli. The film was made possible in part by grants from The Jazz and Heritage and John Burton Harter Foundations.
ABOUT GEORGE DUREAU
Best known for his photos of dwarves, amputees, and athletes, George Dureau: New Orleans Artist explores the life and career of one of the city’s icons, painter and photographer George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014). Dureau’s artistic imperative was to tell stories and his models were his protagonists.
His life and his work were inseparable. In the (relatively) libertine French Quarter he was able to live openly as a gay man, and New Orleans’ tradition of blending class, race, and cultures gave Dureau access to the lives of his models. By the 1970s Dureau was an established artist receiving international attention.
The connections they shared allowed Dureau to elevate his often marginalized subjects, and in 1977 his photography caught the eye of rising star Robert Mapplethorpe. Throughout the late 70s and early 80s the two artists shared a friendship, and questions of influence remain. Mapplethorpe died of AIDS in 1989. Utilizing interviews captured by filmmaker Jack Fritscher in 1991, George Dureau: New Orleans Artist examines the motives of both and questions the New York-centric view of “artistic success.”
Dureau would outlive Mapplethorpe by 25 years, residing alone in the French Quarter and completing public works commissions until Hurricane Katrina decimated the city in 2005. A slow decline in Dureau’s faculties followed, and the artist succumbed to Alzheimer’s Disease in 2014. Ten years later, as New Orleans reels from corporate tourism and cultural gentrification, will there be space for Dureau?
For more information please contact Jarret Lofstead, thebendmedia@gmail.com, 504.517.2992
George Dureau: New Orleans Artist PREMIÈRE EUROPÉENNE
Thursday, September 19, 6PM @ FIFIGROT 13, Grolandais International Film Festival
George Dureau: New Orleans Artist SCREENING Thursday, November 21 7PM at The Broad Theatre.
http://www.thebroadtheater.com/event/7pm-21-november-2024-george-dureau-new-orleans-artist-w-filmmakers-sergio-andres-lobo-navia-jarret-lofstead/
George Dureau: New Orleans Artist SCREENING October 20 1245PM at Outshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Paradigm Cinemas Gateway Theater
1820 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
VIRTUAL
Monday, October 28 @12:00 AM through Sunday, November 3 @11:59 PM
https://outshinefilm.com/
FILM WEBSITE: https://dureaufilm.com
CO. SITE: https://thebend.works