{"id":655,"date":"2008-08-30T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/08\/30\/chris-smith\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:04:11","slug":"chris-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/08\/30\/chris-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"~CHRIS SMITH\/in NYC !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMARK BORCHARDT & MIKE SCHANK\/IMAGE COURTESY: AMERICAN MOVIE<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nCAST of the COVEN\/IMAGE COURTESY: AMERICAN MOVIE<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSARAH PRICE & CHRIS SMITH\/IMAGE COURTESY: AMERICAN MOVIE<\/a><\/p>\n

JOHN RIEPENHOFF, of the MILWAUKEE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR CREW – aka – the people who brought you the DARK FAIR !! – wrote to tell us he is in town with one of his friends, and a fellow Milwaukean – who turns out to be filmmaker CHRIS SMITH – who happens to be having a ‘mid career survey\/retrospective’ at MoMA this weekend, and the release of his newest film, ‘The Pool’ at the Film Forum next week…<\/p>\n

JAN ALBERT – our artlovers’ movie maven – reports:<\/p>\n

“Go SEE MoMA’S weekend retrospective of Chris Smith’s collected works:
\n‘CHRIS SMITH – An American Original’.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen SMITH’S ‘AMERICAN MOVIE’ and ‘HOME MOVIE’. They are both quirky fun and compulsively watchable. The first, ‘AMERICAN MOVIE’, (which won the GRAND JURY PRIZE for DOCUMENTARY 1999 SUNDANCE), follows a young filmmaker as he maxes out his credit cards and convinces family members and friends to put their money behind his dream of directing ‘COVEN’, a horror film that will make them all a fortune.
\nIn ‘HOME MOVIE’, five Americans allow Smith into their unusual private worlds. These dreamers have channelled all of their creativity into their living spaces – a tree house in Hawaii, a house boat on the Mississippi, an underground missile silo converted into a family abode, and a home amusement park for a couple’s dozens of cats! They are all highly eccentric, passionate and, represent the best of America, in my humble opinion – kind of a bizarro-world Martha Stewart Living Segment !
\nI haven’t seen ‘THE YES MEN’, but it sounds priceless, and ‘AMERICAN JOB’ also sounds promising (see MoMA description).
\nOn Monday, Sept 1, MoMA is premiering Smith’s latest feature, ‘THE POOL’ , 2 days before it starts its run at the Film Forum. It’s also about a small man with big dreams, but this time the dreamer is a young guy in Goa, India. It is a deceptively simple but deeply stirring story with a charming twist just when you thought it was over.
\nI can’t think of a better way to spend Labor Day.”<\/p>\n

more info, see: CHRIS SMITH – An American Original\/MoMA !!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARK BORCHARDT & MIKE SCHANK\/IMAGE COURTESY: AMERICAN MOVIE CAST of the COVEN\/IMAGE COURTESY: AMERICAN MOVIE SARAH PRICE & CHRIS SMITH\/IMAGE COURTESY: AMERICAN MOVIE JOHN RIEPENHOFF, of the MILWAUKEE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR CREW – aka – the people who brought you the DARK FAIR !! – wrote to tell us he is in town with one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}