WexCast

Melissa Crum of Mosaic Education Network leads a post-film discussion for Raoul Peck's James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro following a screening of the film at the Wexner Center for the arts in February 2017. Using the film as a prompt, Crum asks audience members to respond to the questions, "What is equality?" and "What role does white supremacy play in preventing us from living in the...

For this episode, we connected with three filmmakers who were each tasked by the late filmmaker Barbara Hammer with completing one of the projects she was unable to finish before her death in 2019. Supported in their efforts by Hammer’s multi-year Wexner Center Artist Residency Award, Lynn Sachs, Deborah Stratman, and Mark Street each discuss their relationship with Hammer and how their respective...

Film/Video Director David Filipi speaks with Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason, writer and director of "A White, White Day." The film is streaming through June 4, 2020 in a Wex virtual screening room. More info at wexarts.org/film-video.

We dive into the Wex archives for a 2009 podcast about Liza Johnson's In the Air. Supported by the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio, the short film was shot entirely in Portsmouth, Ohio, with a nonprofessional cast of circus performers in training at Cirque d'Art Theatre. Wex Educator Jean Pitman has a short chat with the young performers and their instructors for a look at how they worked with Joh...

Columbus, Ohio-based singer-songwriter and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Sharon Udoh of the rock 'n' roll band Counterfeit Madison performs a concert for students of the Wex's Pages Program. Pages connects central Ohio high school students each year with local resident and international visiting artists to inspire original art and writing. Udoh is introduced by Pages coordinator a...

For this episode, we dip into the archives for a 2009 conversation between Wexner Center for the Arts Associate Film/Video Curator Chris Stults and filmmaker Jeanne Liotta about her work Crosswalk, completed with support from the Wex Film/Video Studio. The work is streaming for the month of April 2020 at wexarts.org.

Want to know more about the work of the late, great, French filmmaker Agnés Varda? For this edition of Intro, Wex Associate Film/Video Curator Chris Stults, the organizer of the Wexner Center's mini retrospective of Varda's films in March 2020, discusses her work with Vera Brunner-Sung, a filmmaker, Ohio State professor, and fellow Varda fan. They cover some of their own experiences watching Varda...

Wexner Center Film/Video Director David Filipi sits down with PR & Content Manager Melissa Starker to discuss the 6th annual celebration of the art of film restoration, including some of the other fests that helped inspire Cinema Revival and what you can expect to see this year. Image: Buster Keaton in Go West, courtesy of Cohen Film Collection

We connected with three professors in Ohio State's Department of Dance for a uniquely informed introduction to the work of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham: David Covey, Karen Eliot, and Daniel Roberts, all of whom have been members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Alla Kovgan's 3D documentary CUNNINGHAM screens January 24-26 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. (Image of Cunningham wi...

For this episode, we're sharing a November 2019 talk by Elizabeth Weiser about the work of Jenny Holzer. The Ohio State Department of English professor explores the language Holzer utilizes in her series of Truisms and Inflammatory Essays, on view as part of the exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin. She also touches on the reactions they spur, and how a museum setting provides imp...

Enjoy a chat with one of our favorite people, filmmaker Jennifer Reeder. An Ohio State alum, former Wex student employee and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient, Reeder has been making waves in the indie film world this fall with her feature debut as writer-director, the atmospheric thriller KNIVES AND SKIN. The work was completed with help from the residency award and the talk followed...

This WexCast shares a discussion from October 2019 between Wexner Center Film/Video Director David Filipi and the directors of the documentary American Factory, Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar. The talk came about as part of Julia Reichert: A Life in Film, a retrospective on the nearly 50-year career of the Academy Award-nominated Ohio filmmaker that's touring the US through June 2020. If you miss...

For this WexCast, we share a conversation between Wex Executive Director Johanna Burton and the artists of our fall 2019 exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, and Maya Lin. The three Ohio-born makers discuss the works on view in the show, how their connections to the state have informed their respective practices, and the one other place on earth where you might’ve seen their work together....

Gallery talk by Ohio University professor of art John Sabraw. The activist and artist joined us to discuss the Wex's fall 2019 exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin—specifically, Lin's two installations for this show, which illustrate human-driven changes to Ohio's waterways in dense concentrations of recycled steel pins and small glass beads.

Thanks to a collaboration between the Wexner Center, Ohio State's Department of English, and the 2019 Victorian Studies Association Conference, the Wex hosted a discussion with the great Mike Leigh on October 17. The writer-director behind such works as Secrets and Lies, Topsy Turvy, Naked, Vera Drake, and this year's Peterloo talked with Ohio State associate professor Sean O' Sullivan about his c...

In fall of 2016, shortly after the announcement that John Canemaker was the recipient of a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award, Canemaker visited the Wex while in the early stages of producing Hands, the film supported by the award. He sat down with Wex Film/Video Director Dave Filipi to discuss his vision for the hand-drawn short, as well as his approach to storytelling, his encounters with anim...

In advance of her Columbus debut at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Thursday, Oct. 10, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid curated this playlist for fans & fellow music lovers. Enjoy!

Wexner Center curator-at-large discusses his first experience with Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls, the double-screen film's impact on culture, and why it needs to be experienced in a theatrical setting. The film series The Chelsea Girls Exploded screens at the Wex Sept. 6-25, 2019.

Bret Wood, filmmaker and author of the new book "Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture," offers a brief intro to the classic exploitation genre during a visit to the Wexner Center for the Arts on July 6, 2019. Wood is introduced by Dave Filipi, Director, Film/Video at the Wex. Our summer film series "B-Movie Mania: A Low Budget Summer" continues through August 15.

Each year, high school students connect with contemporary art and artists through the Wexner Center's Pages program. The students create responses to what they've experienced, which are collected and printed in the annual Pages Anthology. For this WexCast, Wex educator and Pages coordinator Dionne Custer Edwards traveled to Big Walnut High School in Sunbury to talk with Bri and Sofia, two particip...

Enjoy an in-depth discussion between Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and Ohio State University professor Laura Podalsky about Reygadas's distinct approach to filmmaking. The conversation was recorded at the Wexner Center for the Arts on March 30, 2019, following the local premiere of Our Time, the new film by Reygadas starring the director and his real-life wife, Natalia.

For this WexCast, we listen in on a phone call between classical pianist and composer Karen Walwyn, cellist Timothy Holley, and drummer, composer, and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Mark Lomax II. As part of the curating work Lomax has been doing for the Wex this spring, he's bringing Holley and Walwyn to Columbus on Sunday, April 7 for a performance of contemporary classical works...

For this Wexcast, we share a conversation between assistant curator Lucy Zimmerman, Alicia McCarthy and her assistant and fellow artist, Oliver Hawk Holden. Fresh from completing McCarthy's site-specific mural No Straight Lines in the Wex lobby, the artists discuss the sometimes disorienting effects of working large scale. McCarthy also covers her relationship to graffiti, past and present, and ho...

For this WexCast, we're sharing a recent talk by author David Shields. The bestselling author reads from his 2018 book No One Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention, and shares a preview of his latest book, The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power. Special thanks to Ohio State's Project Narrative for cosponsoring this event.

For this Wexcast, we share a Q&A that was captured during a recent visit from Bing Liu, director of the award-winning documentary Minding the Gap, which was just shortlisted for consideration for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Liu speaks with Chris Stults, Associate Curator, Film/Video at the Wex, following the Columbus premiere screening of Minding the Gap on October 27, 2018, as part of...