When a filmmaker decides to create a documentary about an artist, an essential question is raised: should the artist’s work or life be the main focus? Viewing and interrogating an artist’s creative process is often at the heart of such films, but that hardly eliminates psychology and personal anecdotes, however serious the documentarian. On the other hand, too many documentaries take a facile view of an artist’s bohemian, glamorous and/or scandalous life, without examining the work that made them important. How should a documentarian illuminate an artist’s contribution to culture and society?

Discussing the issues are filmmakers Roz Owen (Portrait of Resistance: The Art and Activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge), Matthew Akers (Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present) and Larry Weinstein (My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg). The panel will be moderated by Marc Glassman, editor of Point of View magazine.

Co-presented by Point of View magazine and Reel Artists Film Festival.

Tickets available day-of starting at 10:00AM at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Box Office. Seating is Limited.