High Art
- This is a past program
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Archive Treasures. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.
In-person: Q&A with filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko, editor Amy E. Duddleston, producer Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, producer Susan A. Stover, composer Craig Wedren, photographer Jojo Whilden, moderated by Sundance Institute Director of Programming Kim Yutani.
Restoration world premiere
Lisa Cholodenko’s skillful and brilliant debut feature High Art (1998), made a few years after B. Ruby Rich’s groundbreaking New Queer Cinema article, captures the intoxicating haze of limerence, addiction and power struggles through the evolving dynamics between Syd, a driven assistant editor for a photography magazine, and her upstairs neighbor Lucy, a once-acclaimed photographer. Over 25 years ago, High Art garnered critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, launching Radha Mitchell’s career, and earning praise for Patricia Clarkson and Ally Sheedy. The magnetic pull of Cholodenko’s deeply complex characters has a staying power that provokes questions of love, ambition and sacrifice, solidifying High Art as a timeless masterpiece in independent cinema.
DCP, color, 101 min. Director/Screenwriter: Lisa Cholodenko. With: Patricia Clarkson, Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy.
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