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GREAT GENIUS/PROFOUND STUPIDITY

Join us for an advance screening of ‘Great Genius and Profound Stupidity’ by Benita Raphan in collaboration with Oliver Sacks, Merce Cunningham and philosopher Avital Ronell.

Benita is the director, designer, and creator of documentary films 'They Were The Future', a series about visionary scientists such as R. Buckminster Fuller and Edwin Land (first shown in The Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Outside of the Studio System" in 2007). She will introduce these, and her latest film—premiering at The Tribeca Film Festival in April, showing at The Walker Art Center until May, and broadcasting on The Sundance Channel in 2009—and tell the story of her search for genius and Elvis Costello through The US, the UK and Europe. 
 
In collaboration with post-production leaders The Freestyle Collective, Guava, Jump, Manic, Semerad, Crew Cuts, Chinagraph Inc., and The Sound Lounge, Benita’s work has been watched on HBO, The Sundance Channel, Channel Four Television UK, and PBS, seen at The Kennedy Center, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The ICA and The National Portrait Gallery in London, and screened at The Sundance, Tribeca, Telluride, and London Film Festivals.

Benita has done work in London, Paris and New York for Yves Saint Laurent, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Wieden + Kennedy, Deutsch, Inc., Knopf, and The New York Times. She has received Gold medals from The Art Directors’ Club, Le Club des Directeurs Artistiques, Paris and The Broadcast Designers’ Awards. Her work is part of the permanent collections of The Cooper Hewitt, The Walker Art Center, Harvard and Stanford Universities, The British Arts Council, The British Film & Video Study Collection, and The Warsaw Poster Biennale. She is an alumnus of The Royal College of Art and The School of Visual Arts, and has been elected to the Executive Fellows Committee of The MacDowell Colony. She has taught at New York University, and currently teaches at The School of Visual Arts.


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