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In her latest film, First Cow, independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt pushes against the romantic myths of the Western, and of the West. “It’s such a masculine genre,” she says, “and it’s mostly been told from a masculine point of view. So trying to find a different perspective, to find a different frame, for the Western is challenging and interesting for me. It’s a tricky thing, because the road has been paved before you, you know? But I’m trying to make the camera be inclusive of different points of view, something other than just the strong man point of view.”

On Monday, March 2, 2020, Berlin Prize–winning author Carole Maso will read from her work at Bard College. Known for her experimental, poetic, and fragmentary narratives, “Maso is a writer of such power and originality that the reader is carried away with her, far beyond the usual limits of the novel,” writes the San Francisco Chronicle. Maso will be introduced by Bard literature professor and novelist Bradford Morrow. The reading, presented by Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 2:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center. It is free and open to the public; no reservations are required. 
 

The critically acclaimed Four Quartets, which was produced by and premiered at Bard Fisher Center last summer, was performed by Pam Tanowitz Dance at UCLA’s Royce Hall February 15–16, with actress Kathleen Chalfant reading Eliot’s four poems. “Throughout the 75-minute performance, Tanowitz’s outstanding company serves to add to Eliot, not interpret. Complexity grows upon complexity,” writes the LA Times’s Mark Swed. “This exceptional response to ‘Four Quartets’ achieves genuine universality and profound nowness.”

Bard College professor, acclaimed photographer Stephen Shore “has made an indelible impact on photography, teaching his viewers—and generations of students at Bard College—a different way to see.” Artsy highlights four fundamental aspects of his work that have influenced the field.

Swartz, who was awarded a grant in the field of music/sound, creates immersive, site-specific installations that synthesize sound and light into ephemeral, participatory social experiences. Her recent permanent commission for the City of New York, Four Directions from Hunters Point (2019), embedded four optical portals in the walls and roof of the new Steven Holl–designed Queens Public Library, and received the NYC Public Design Commission’s Annual Award for Excellence in Design.

Acclaimed filmmaker, Bard Visiting Artist Charles Burnett talks about filmmaking for social change with WAMC News. Mr. Burnett will be in conversation with filmmakers Julie Dash and Bradford Young tonight, February 4, at 6pm in Olin Hall for “Creative Process in Dialogue: Art and the Public Today.”