Award-winning documentary film ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss will screen on Saturday, September 19 at 12:15 p.m. at the historic Avalon Theatre in Easton, Md., as part of the Chesapeake Film Festival 2015. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with Cid Collins Walker, the executive producer and director of the film and Richard Walker, scriptwriter and producer.
Anna Campbell Bliss
from the film ‘Intersections’ by David Leitner.
ARC OF LIGHT examines the life and work of a pioneering yet under-recognized artist who has devoted her life to the creation of works of art that explore the complex intersections between art, technology, science, nature, mathematics and architecture. The film looks at the astonishing range of Bliss’s work, from small, painterly studies of color and light to architectural site commissions of immense scale.
The 30-minute documentary also puts her work in art-historical context and traces her Modernist influences, including the Bauhaus artists of the 1920s. One of the first women ever trained as an architect at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Bliss, 89, has forged her own vision in art and architecture, tapping historically important movements in art, architecture and design for inspiration yet anticipating the future by incorporating computer-generated imagery into her work.
The Avalon Theatre is an historically important theatre originally built as a cinema in 1921 and billed as the “showplace of the Eastern Shore.” In 1934 it was purchased by the Shine Theatre Chain, which redesigned the theater with an elegant Art Deco theme that remains today. In 1989 it was restored as a performing arts center and purchased by the town of Easton. Today it is operated by the Avalon Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
The Chesapeake film Festival opens Friday, Sept.18 and runs through Sunday. The event aims to offer the finest in narrative, documentary and short films to the Chesapeake Bay community, showcasing films highlighting the diversity as well as the universality of the human condition.
ARC OF LIGHT premiered in Washington D.C. at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 2012, as part of the Environmental Film Festival and has since screened at film festivals and in museums around the country. In the last year, it has shown on public-television stations from New York to Los Angeles. In addition to national acclaim it received two awards from TIVA the Television, Internet and Video Association in Washington, DC.
To reserve tickets for the screening visit www.chesapeakefilmfestival.com. To learn more about ARC OF LIGHT: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss, visit www.arcoflight.org.
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