She teaches “Visual Thinking” at the Graduate Journalism Department at NYU and cinematography in the Masters in Film program at SVA. Deadline (co-directed with Katy Chevigny), premiered at Sundance and won the Thurgood Marshall Award. Her shooting is featured in Fahrenheit 9/11, Academy Award-nominated Asylum, Emmy-winning Ladies First, and Sundance premieres: A Place at the Table, This Film is Not Yet Rated, and Derrida. She and Laura Poitras shared the 2010 Sundance Cinematography Award for The Oath. Her credits include Academy Award-nominated The Invisible War and Tribeca Documentary winner, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Her most recent camerawork appears in Oscar-winning CitizenFour, Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs Gravity, The Wound and the Gift and Very Semi-Serious. Her short film The Above premiered at 2015 New York Film Festival in the The Intercept’s Field of Vision launch. KIRSTEN JOHNSON (Cinematographer) is a cinematographer and director. She is currently Director of Hancock Shaker Village, a living history museum and performance venue comprised of 20 historic buildings on 750 acres in Western Massachusetts. Nominated for three James Beard awards, she has been featured in Martha Stewart Living and Coastal Living magazines, and has written for Yankee, Travel & Leisure, Harvard Magazine, Omni, and other publications. An award-winning journalist and the author of 20 books including Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe, Nuclear Power: Both Sides, Trail of Flame, and Jump Up and Kiss Me, she wrote the first story about MASS MoCA for The New York Times. JENNIFER TRAINER (Director) Jennifer Trainer was one of a handful of people who developed and built MASS MoCA, working at the museum for 28 years as the first Director of Development. It makes contemporary art more accessible… smart, well shot, and well delivered.” - FLIXIST “As one of its co-creators, director Jennifer Trainer’s Museum Town traces MASS MoCA’s history with a loving touch that encapsulates the power of the space she helped begin build decades ago… I found myself moved to tears often.” - Black Girl Nerds “visually, sonically and emotionally compelling” - The Berkshire Eagle PRESS “One of the 10 Best Art Documentaries of 2020” - ARTnews “A love letter to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, to artistic experimentation and to North Adams, the struggling factory town where the institution is situated… Worth watching" - The New York Times “Embodies the museum's goal of uniting high art, pop culture and social consciousness.” - Boston Globe "A stunning example of the best kind of documentary filmmaking." - Moviejawn “A remarkable achievement… This is art as cultural inspiration and economic development.” - The Austin Chronicle “it is indeed an extraordinary Museum, and the tale of its creation as well as its effect on the town of North Adams, MA is chronicled in this doc.” - Filmmaker magazine “ Museum Town is the most fun documentary I’ve seen in some time. With appearances by artists ranging from James Turrell to David Byrne, narration by Meryl Streep, and a soundtrack from John Stirratt of Wilco, MUSEUM TOWN captures the meeting of small-town USA and the global art world as it tells a tale that is, like any great artwork, soulful, thought-provoking and unforgettable. Threaded with interviews of a diverse cast - a tattooed curator, a fabricator, former factory worker, and shopkeepers-the film also looks at the artistic process itself, tracking the work and ideas of celebrated artist Nick Cave as he creates his groundbreaking installation at MASS MoCA, UNTIL. How did such a wildly improbable transformation come to be? A testament to tenacity and imagination, MUSEUM TOWN traces the remarkable story of how a rural Massachusetts town went from economic collapse to art mecca. In 2017, MASS MoCA became the largest museum for contemporary art in the world-but just three decades before, its vast brick buildings were the abandoned relics of a massive shuttered factory. MUSEUM TOWN tells the story of a unique museum, the small town it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city.
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