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Judy Fiskin

Three Funerals and Some Acts of Preservation

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 15:13 | USA | 2016

In this film, the narrator tells the story of the two burials of Michelangelo, considers the mortality of people and objects while the conservators at the Getty Museum clean the outdoor sculpture collection, and plans her own funeral. using as models funerals she`s attended and funerals she`s seen in movies.

Judy Fiskin is a photographer and video maker, who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her videos and films have been screened at international venues, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and South by Southwest in Austin. Her photographs have been shown at museums and galleries around the world, including such venues as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the International Center for Photography in New York. She has been teaching at the California Institute of the Arts since 1977.