Betye Saar — Actor (2)

Movie

Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space (1981)
Shopping Bag Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space IMDb TMDB
Shopping Bag, Spirits and Freeway Fetishes: Reflections on Ritual Space explores nine Los Angeles based artists reflecting on ritual in their life and art. Artist David Hammons discusses the role of chance and improvisation in his work while working on sculpture on a waste site while N’Senga Nengudi talks about staging her performances in freeway underpasses. Spanning performance to spoken word, environmental sculpture to music each artist talks about how ritual and cultural traditions informs their work. This experimental essay intercuts interviews, documentation and photographs with the music of Don Cherry seeking to adjust the criteria and language used to talk about artists of colour.

Movie

Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business (2020)
Douban
即使在93岁的时候,也无法阻止传奇艺术家贝蒂·萨尔。70年来,艺术家贝特耶·萨尔的这幅肖像显示,她并没有在个人和权势作品中消除不平等。在她洛杉矶的工作室里,萨尔谈到收集物品、非裔美国人的历史、艺术作为武器,以及让人们思考。