Film Screenings at Digital GYM Cinema
This is a part of our partnership with Digital Gym Cinema where we show bi-monthly films about photographers on the big screen, all in a state-of-the-art theater with popcorn, candy, and any beverage your heart desires
Thursday, December 12 at 7:00pm
Please join us for a screening of Eliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good. The filmmakers describe the film as “a quiet, intimate portrait of an artist at work, who values companionship of all kinds above idle conversation.”
This film highlight’s the artist’s entire adult life in photography, working in fashion, photographing political figures around the world, as well as famous people, ordinary community members, and one of his favorite subjects: dogs.
Medium’s founder, the artist scott b. davis, will share personal memories of working with the artist as part of a short conversation after the film.
Medium Photo members pay just $10 admission ($13 general), with underground parking available.
Previous screenings include:
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable. showcases the life and work of the incomparable street photographer Garry Winogrand. In partnership with the San Diego Museum of Art’s exhibition Garry Winogrand: Man of the People, the screening featured a talk back with exhibition curator Kara Felt.
August 8, 2024
Filmed over a decade, Gregory Crewdsson: Brief Encounters follows internationally renowned photographer Gregory Crewdson’s work creating unique, surreal, and elaborate portraits of suburban life. Crewson’s photographs are informed by his own anxieties, dreams and a haunted image of American life informed by his father’s home based psychology practice in Brooklyn, NY. Brief Encounters is an intimate portrait of one of the most heralded image-makers of our time.
After the screening guests enjoyed provocative conversations of Crewdson’s work and approach to photography as a directorial endeavor.
June 13, 2024
A screening of Hale County This Morning, This Evening, directed by artist, filmmaker, and writer, RaMell Ross. Ross, a photographer, was inspired by the work of William Christenberry and used the historic work of Walker Evans and James Agee to show a different side of Hale County, Alabama where the influential book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was created. Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South – trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
After the screening attendees discussed the film with photographer Robin North.
April 11, 2024
A screening of Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People coincided with the 10th anniversary of the release of the film. This is the first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
Before the screening attendees enjoyed a Q&A with director, Thomas Allen Harris.
This screening was supported by the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art.
December 14th, 2023
A screening of Bill Cunningham New York included photo ops for participants who came dressed in Cunningham-inspired attire. Special sweets were available to guests upon arrival and complimentary Prosecco from the concession stand.
October 12, 2023
A screening of The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography included a chance for film goers to see a 20”x24” Polaroid camera in person, and a talk back led by photographer Marshall Williams and Medium Photo program manager Lauren Matley.
August 10, 2023
A screening of Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning with a talk back led by director Dyanna Taylor and Medium Photo board president Kevin Miller.
June 15, 2023
An exclusive screening of Faces Places a film by Agnés Varda and contemporary French artist JR. After the film a talk back with JR collaborator and photographer Scott Bennett and professor Alain Lescartes.
April 6 & 8, 2023
The southern California premiere of GRAIN was included in the 2023 Medium Festival of Photography. GRAIN is a film by Alex Contell and Tomasso Sacconi that highlights photographers who choose to forgo the benefits of digital in favor of technology that is vulnerable to human error and chance. After the screening we hosted a talk back with the directors and audience members.