Gift
The intelligent and life affirming documentary Gift will make viewers consider how they give, receive, and create art in a fresh, new light.
-- Andrew Parker, The Gate
Gift
Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, GIFT is a richly cinematic film, interweaving character‐driven stories. On North America's Pacific Northwest Coast, a young indigenous man undertakes the elaborate preparations for a potlatch - to make a name for himself by giving everything away. In Rome, Italy, a factory occupied by migrant families is transformed into a living museum, protected by a barricade of art: a model of resistance, and an invaluable gift. In the pirate utopia of Burning Man, a mutant bumblebee art car distributes honey in a post-apocalyptic desert landscape. Meanwhile, in Auckland, New Zealand, artist Lee Mingwei prepares to launch Sonic Blossom - a “transformative gift” of song. GIFT is a tribute to something that can’t be measured or counted, bought or sold. Exploring the parallels between artists’ work and a gift economy, it’s a reflection on the creative process, the reasons we “labor in service of our gifts,” and a celebration of the imagination.
Genre
Documentary,
Art & Artists
Runtime
90
Language
English,
Italian
Director
Robin McKenna
Writer(s)
Robin McKenna
Played at
Santa Monica
Monica Film Center
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