Exclusive: Zeitgeist Films, in association with Kino Lorber, has acquired North American rights to filmmaker and art critic Amei Wallach’s Taking Venice, a doc that explores the rumored rigging of the 1964 Venice Biennale.
Taking Venice will make its North American premiere at Doc NYC on November 10, followed by a theatrical release from Zeitgeist in spring 2024 alongside an educational, home video, and digital release on all major platforms by Kino Lorber.
With expert interviews and extensive archival footage, Taking Venice uncovers the true story behind rumors that the U.S. government and a team of high-placed insiders rigged the 1964 Venice Biennale so their chosen artist, Robert Rauschenberg, could win the grand prize.
Full Synopsis reads: At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department was determined to fight communism with culture, setting its sights on the 1964 Venice Biennale. They engaged the help of high-profile art insiders, including art...
Taking Venice will make its North American premiere at Doc NYC on November 10, followed by a theatrical release from Zeitgeist in spring 2024 alongside an educational, home video, and digital release on all major platforms by Kino Lorber.
With expert interviews and extensive archival footage, Taking Venice uncovers the true story behind rumors that the U.S. government and a team of high-placed insiders rigged the 1964 Venice Biennale so their chosen artist, Robert Rauschenberg, could win the grand prize.
Full Synopsis reads: At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department was determined to fight communism with culture, setting its sights on the 1964 Venice Biennale. They engaged the help of high-profile art insiders, including art...
- 11/14/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Ukrainian-born artist Ilya Kabakov's 2008 multi-site Moscow retrospective is the departure point of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here, itself a look back at the husband-and-wife team whose surreal, mimetic installations reinvented the landscape of Soviet and post-Soviet art.
Director Amei Wallach re-teamed with editor-cinematographer Ken Kobland (the pair's last collaboration was Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine, 2008) to follow the Kabakovs, who fled the Soviet Union in 1987, back to Russia.
The couple has lived in the United States for the last 25 years, though Ilya appears most comfortable speaking German — anything, it seems, but Russian. Kabakov, now 80, plans, paints, and oversees the reconstruction of his 1992 i...
Director Amei Wallach re-teamed with editor-cinematographer Ken Kobland (the pair's last collaboration was Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine, 2008) to follow the Kabakovs, who fled the Soviet Union in 1987, back to Russia.
The couple has lived in the United States for the last 25 years, though Ilya appears most comfortable speaking German — anything, it seems, but Russian. Kabakov, now 80, plans, paints, and oversees the reconstruction of his 1992 i...
- 11/12/2013
- Village Voice
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