Posts Tagged ‘Laurel Nakadate’

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11:53 am
Thursday Jul 23, 2009
by Danielle Kourtesis
Film
Exclusive: Q&A with Visual Artist Turned Filmmaker Laurel Nakadate

Still from Stay the Same Never Change

Still from Stay the Same Never Change

Laurel Nakadate is an American filmmaker, video artist, and photographer based in New York City; she was born in 1975 in Austin, Texas, and spent her childhood in Ames, Iowa. In 2005, Nakadate’s Love Hotel and Other Stories received critical acclaim and Jerry Saltz dubbed her a standout at a P.S.1 group show that same year. She has since been exhibited at the Mary Boone Gallery and the Asia Society in New York, the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Reina Sofia in Madrid. Stay the Same Never Change — a nonlinear yarn about young women set in the heartland — is her first feature film. It plays Rooftop Films Summer Series this Saturday night at 8 p.m. Read More »