Film Premiere: Life as a Collage

7:00 - 8:00 pm

Film screening followed by a panel discussion and reception with the student filmmakers and teaching artists Brandon Kramer and Lance Kramer from Meridian Hill pictures.

Join us for the first presentation of the fall Performace Series – a special screening of Life As a Collage, Sitar’s first student documentary created by the Multimedia Writing and Documentary Film classes, in Partnership with Meridian Hill Pictures. Created while artist and Sitar volunteer Tim Gabel was struggling with liver cancer, this movie captures one teacher’s amazing dedication to his students and his art, as he reflects during the final stages of his life.

Having taught at the Center since it opened ten years ago, Gabel’s classes in Landscape Painting and Collage defined the Saturday art experience at Sitar, bringing generations of families together through art. Life as a Collage explores Gabel’s relationship to his artwork and the rich experience he had as part of the Sitar community, both as a teacher and as a consummate learner, taking so much from his students. After a long battle with cancer, Gabel passed away in March. Student Director Forrest Penrod says “It’s almost like through us it’s [Tim]’s last way of contacting people, people he cared about and that care about him…everything that he learned in his life, he’s passing that on to new people and to the next generation.”

Life as a Collage has been featured at Silver Docs during the Making a Smaller World: Youth Voices Speak Up panel, as part of ShortieCon at Giving Voice to People: New Access and Power in Community Video Storytelling, and at Docs in Progress.