Event
The event will be on Thursday, October 24th, at Rainey Auditorium at the Penn Museum. It will include a display of select Animal Locomotion prints from the University Archives’ Muybridge Collection (4:30-5:30pm in the Mosaic Hall & Courtyard, which is adjacent to the Rainey) followed by the screening of Exposing Muybridge at 5:30pm and a Q&A with the Director Marc Shaffer and Byron Wolfe, who appears in the film as an expert on Muybridge. The Q&A and conversation will be moderated by Ian Fleishman, Chair of Penn Cinema & Media Studies.
Marc Shaffer became enchanted with Eadweard Muybridge while directing American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco (PBS, 2014), which used many Muybridge photographs. Shaffer’s more than two dozen documentaries have been seen by viewers in the U.S. and around the globe on PBS, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, on AppleTV, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, in theaters and dozens of film festivals. Shaffer’s work has been recognized with the Writers Guild Award for outstanding documentary screenplay (for Exposing Muybridge), four national Emmy nominations, seven Cine Golden Eagle Awards, a Cine Special Jury Award, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award and many other honors.
Byron Wolfe is Professor and Chair of Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. He collaborates on long-term research projects in fields that range from visual arts to humanities to the natural sciences. He uses photography and other visualization tools to tell stories that reflect upon broader notions of culture and the constructions of landscape, perception and time. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a co-recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Award for Still Photography and a recipient of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is collected in more than 30 permanent collections, including The George Eastman Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Wolfe has authored and co-authored six books and his work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Orion magazine and more.
The event is free and open to all. Please enter the Rainey Auditorium and the Mosaic Hall & Courtyard at the Penn Museum through the EAST ENTRANCE of the museum itself. If you are walking towards the museum from campus, this means walking down South Street until the furthest end of the museum, and taking a right once you approach the garages on Convention Avenue.
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This event is made possible thanks to the generous sponsorship and collaboration of the Penn Museum and Cinema & Media Studies.