Artists Space

A Film Club for Adrienne Kennedy

Due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19, Artists Space and Light Industry will be rescheduling all programs related to A Film Club for Adrienne Kennedy.

My mother often told the story of how when she was pregnant she went to a movie and saw Adrienne Ames and decided to name me for her. How could I see then that my name was responsible for inspiring in me a curiosity about celebrity and glamour?

– Adrienne Kennedy

Black and white photograph of a crowd of people, most of whom are children, standing outside of a city theater. A marquee above the theater’s entrance has the word “WALDORF” emblazoned across it in large letters. The crowd faces forward, seeming to pose for the camera.
The Waldorf Theater, located in Cleveland’s Mt. Pleasant area. Active from about 1930 until 1950. [Black and white photograph of a crowd of people, most of whom are children, standing outside of a city theater. A marquee above the theater’s entrance has the word “WALDORF” emblazoned across it in large letters. The crowd faces forward, seeming to pose for the camera.]

Cinema, and classical Hollywood in particular, has been a profound influence on Adrienne Kennedy's theater. As a child growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, Kennedy spent countless hours watching films at theaters like the Waldorf, the Imperial, and the Uptown, and memories of what she saw would reverberate across her scripts and autobiographical writings. As part of her exhibition at Artists Space, Light Industry's Thomas Beard and Ed Halter host a week-long film club, organized around the films and performers which have endured in Kennedy's imagination and, each in their own way, led to her plays.

March 11, 2020

Mrs. Miniver
Postponed: Film Screening
7pm

March 12, 2020

The Wolf Man
Postponed: Film Screening
7pm

March 13, 2020

Top Hat
Postponed: Film Screening
7pm

March 14, 2020

Gaslight
Postponed: Film Screening
7pm

March 15, 2020

Now, Voyager
Postponed: Film Screening
4:30pm

Leave Her to Heaven
Postponed: Film Screening
7pm

Light Industry is a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. Developed and overseen by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, the project centers upon a series of weekly events, which are frequently organized in collaboration with an invited artist, critic, or curator.

Support for this program series is provided by The Friends of Artists Space, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Foundation, Atelier4, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.