public art

 

On Thursday I was fortunately able to attend a screening of Bending Space: Georges Rousse and the Durham Project, a documentary following the French artist as he spends a month creating installations in several vacant but soon-to-be transformed buildings in downtown Durham. The film, by Kenny Dalsheimer and Penelope Maunsell, is currently making a circuit of film festivals and has already been seen in fests from Missoula to Memphis. It will be available on DVD later this year, and I'm recommending it not because I have any affiliation with the artist or the filmmakers, but because it has captured the community spirit and reuse/recycling of space that make Durham an endlessly interesting place to live (and on a related note, Frank Konhaus and Ellen Cassilly, themselves two fabulous Durhamites, are responsible for inviting Rousse to Durham in the first place).  Read on ...