The Standard, Miami will host a special screening of Four Short Films with Collier Schorr as part of its Love Life film series on March 1st at 8pm to be followed by a Q&A with the artist. EADS (2008, 3 minutes) takes a look inside the heads of US champion high school wrestlers. It as recently included in the exhibition Hart Targets at LACMA. CINDERELLA MOTEL (2007, 7 minutes) chronicles an interview with four top bareback rodeo riders in their Red Bluff, CA motel.
This work was produced as part of a project for The New York Times Magazine. LIES MY FATHER TOLD ME (2008, 4 minutes) ) is an excerpt from a 27 minute documentary-style work about Schorr’s father, Richard Prince, and life behind the wheel of American muscle cars. The film was made on the occasion of Prince’s retrospective at the Serpentine gallery C’ETAIT UN RENDEZVOUS (1976, 10 minutes) is a short film by Claude Lelouche chosen by Schorr to be included in this screening.
ABOUT COLLIER SCHORR Collier Schorr was born in New York City in 1963 and attended the School of the Visual Arts, New York. Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Schorr’s pictures often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy. Schorr’s work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2003 International Center for Photography Triennial. Schorr has exhibited her work internationally at prestigious venues that include the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Consorcio Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. Schorr is currently in Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now, at the International Center of Photography (ICP).
ABOUT LOVE LIFE AT THE STANDARD, MIAMI The Standard, Miami, a spa hotel created by André Balazs, has collaborated with Cay Sophie Rabinowitz and Christian Rattemeyer to create Love Life, a series of Sunday events that provide guests, members and locals an opportunity to enjoy film, art, and community. This year’s Love Life film series kicked off with a screening of Malcolm McLaren’s “Shallow.”
