Ackland Film Forum: Ang Lee, “Life of Pi” (2012, US)
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Join us for the first film in the Ackland Film Forum’s Fall 2022 series “Art and Artifice”!
Ang Lee, Life Of Pi (2012, US)
With a special introduction by Whitney Crothers Dilley, author of The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen.
A wild and improbable tale of a sixteen-year-old boy, Pi Patel, and a Bengal tiger, who survive together on a raft in the Pacific Ocean for almost a year. Based on a novel, early visual inspiration for the film was provided by Alexis Rockman, whose paintings are now on display at the Ackland in Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks.
Part of the Ackland Film Forum Fall 2022 series “Art and Artifice” co-organized by the UNC Film Studies Program and the Ackland Art Museum.
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ABOUT THE SERIES:
Art and Artifice
In movies we allow our imaginations to touch the realities of our world. The films that impact us most are often those that are not true, but could be. Artists, behind and in front of the camera, give us license to dream and fear. In this series, we explore films that engage and expand the idea of creativity. From sculptors to dressmakers, performers to survivors, these films all ask what it means to create art in the cinema.
The series is presented by the Ackland Art Museum and UNC Film Studies, part of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, in connection with Houseguests: American Art from the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership.
7:30 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
Tuesday, August 30: Ang Lee, Life of Pi (2012, US)
Wednesday, September 7: Andre DeToth, House Of Wax (1953, US)
Tuesday, September 13: Blake Edwards, Victor/Victoria (1982, US)
Tuesday, September 20: Charles Allen, Sidewalk Stories (1989, US)
Tuesday, October 4: Peter Strickland, In Fabric (2018, UK)
