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News Release
New Series Pairs Film with Art for the First Time at Peoria Riverfront Museum
“Frame to Frame” Guest Curated by Film Scholar Carlos Valladares Debuts July 10
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PEORIA, Ill., July 2, 2024 – Visual art has long informed film and filmmakers. Now, a museum is starting a dialogue between the mediums. Peoria Riverfront Museum presents for the first time a specially curated pairing of film with visual art in a new series, Frame to Frame: Film Meets Art, debuting July 10 and running through August 18 at the Giant Screen Theater.
Each of the 11 films in Frame to Frame is paired with artwork from the museum’s FRESH: New Directions in Contemporary Art exhibition, featuring the latest works from Alice Walton’s Art Bridges Collection. The artworks in FRESH challenge identity, culture, media, and overall aesthetic approach, resulting in fantastical revelations of the visual art vernacular.
Frame to Frame is guest curated by Carlos Valladares, an influential film scholar, writer, critic, and video essayist whose work appears in Gagosian Quarterly, n+1, San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate, and the Lincoln Center’s Film Comment. The South Central Los Angeles native and Stanford alumna is a doctoral candidate in Film and Art History at Yale University, where he studies French cinema of the 1960s. He has taught Latin American film and literature, the French New Wave, screenwriting, Classic Hollywood, and U.S. history through cinema.
The curated selection places a diverse array of films by noted filmmakers such as Barbara Loden, Samuel Fuller, and Kevin Jerome Everson, among others, in conversation with some of the most vital painters, sculptors, and video artists of the contemporary art world.
See Carlos Valladares at the museum from August 16 to 18, as he provides live commentary on the films before each screening.
“I’m thrilled to present this series for the Peoria Riverfront Museum this summer. I think it will be a great inaugural program – of classics, old and new – to show how deeply intertwined are the practices of film and visual arts. Watching a film informs how one approaches a painting, a sculpture, a video, a book, or a sketch. They bleed into one another. The goal of this series is to see deeper and with more care. Without film, I would not have been able to see the world of art with as much consideration as I do. And that’s a necessary skill today – unquantifiable and immense,” said guest curator Carlos Valladares. “I'm glad to be able to show these wonderful films in the city of Peoria, all toward an effort to see and feel more carefully, to be able to put into images and words what can be so difficult to enunciate in our daily lives. I'm especially excited to bring Yellow Submarine to the kids and adults of all ages. Hopefully we can engage in a singalong to keep back the Blue Meanies, bigger than the museum’s giant screen, I'm told!”
The Frame to Frame film-art lineup includes Can You Ever Forgive Me? paired with After Russell Lee: 1-60 by Sherrie Levine on July 10, 6:30 p.m.; Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property + When It Rains paired with Good Love by Rashid Johnson on July 17, 6:30 p.m.; Portrait of Jason paired with A Box of 10 Photographs by Diane Arbus on July 24, 6:30 p.m.; The Honeymoon Killers paired with Elsa by Richard Prince on July 31, 6:30 p.m.; The Boy Who Liked Deer + Wanda paired with Artaud by Richard Serra on Aug. 7, 6:30 p.m.; Shock Corridor paired with Cigar by Philip Guston on Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m.; Kevin Jerome Everson Shorts paired with Good Love by Rashid Johnson on Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m.; Yellow Submarine paired with Anna’s Mistake by Nicolas Africano on Aug. 17, 10 a.m.; The Manchurian Candidate paired with Witches’ Sabbath by Jack Levine on Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m.; Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV paired with Global Groove by Nam June Paik on Aug. 18, 2:30 p.m.; and The Passion of Joan of Arc paired with Artaud by Richard Serra on Aug. 18, 6:30 p.m.
Frame to Frame: Film Meets Art programming is generously supported by the Art Bridges Foundation, Visionary Society, and Film Society. FRESH: New Directions in Contemporary Art is presented thanks to the generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation, Bielfeldt Foundation, Visionary Society, and Friends of Art.
For film descriptions, tickets, and more information on the Frame to Frame series, visit peoriariverfrontgst.org/frame-to-frame.
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The Peoria Riverfront Museum is the only multidisciplinary institution of its kind in the nation combining art, science, history and achievement. The museum is dedicated to using its collections, exhibitions, film planetarium and programming to tell the stories that build confidence; create a culture of lifelong learning; and unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.
Contact Melody Konrad, Peoria Riverfront Museum assistant director of marketing and communications at MKonrad@peoriariverfrontmuseum.org.
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