TOM KALIN
Tom Kalin's critically acclaimed films and videos have been screened at museums, film festivals, galleries and broadcast on television throughout the world. From short experimental videos to feature-length narrative films, he has created a diverse body of work, garnering top honors including the Berlin Film Festivals Caligari Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Stockholm Film Festival.
His films and videos are in the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kalin has been awarded support from institutions including the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Paul Robeson Fund, the Peter Reed Foundation, the American Film Institute, New York State Council for the Arts and the Wexner Center. Commissions include The Whitney Museum, The American Center and The Kobe Museum, Japan.
Kalin's debut feature, SWOON, was awarded Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, the Open Palm for best first film at the Independent Feature Project’s Gotham Awards, among others. Screened at festivals throughout the world, SWOON was released theatrically in over fifteen countries. In 1994, Kalin was Executive Producer of the critically acclaimed Go Fish, released by the Samuel Goldwyn Company. He was Producer of the award-winning I Shot Andy Warhol in 1996 and Co-Writer of artist Cindy Sherman's directorial debut, Office Killer, in 1997. He recently directed the feature film Savage Grace as Director, produced by Killer Films, Monfort Productions and Celluloid Dreams and starring Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane and Eddie Redmayne.
He is also in production on Behold Goliath, an experimental narrative inspired by the life and work of writer Alfred Chester. Combining super-8, digital video and 35mm film shot with an antique, hand-crank camera, this piece uses the language of early cinema to convey the ravishing imagery, pathos and surreal humor of Chesters work. He recently screened a new piece, Every Wandering Cloud, at MoMA, Basel Viper2006 and the Seoul Film Festival. His work was featured in SWOON: Ten Years of Killer Films at MoMA in 2005. Video Data Bank, Electronic Arts Intermix, V-Tape and Lux distribute his videos.
In 1993, fashion designer Geoffrey Beene commissioned the 35mm film, Geoffrey Beene30; screenings include the Walker Center, the London Film Festival and the Whitney Museum. Inspired by the lyrical expressionism of silent film, Geoffrey Beene 30 unfolds in three short acts with no dialogue. Featuring an ensemble cast including Marcia Gay Harden, Viveca Lindfors, Russell Wong and Claire Danes, the film combines music and movement with lush, visual storytelling. In 1996, Kalin directed the dramatic short Plain Pleasures, based on a Jane Bowles story, starring Frances McDormand, Lili Taylorand Will Patton. Screened at the Dresden Film Festival and the Wexner Center, it received a national broadcast through American Playhouse on PBS.
In 1999, he completed the series Third Known Nest, which screened at the Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, White Columns, the Getty Center, the Viper Festival, Biennale de Lyon, Kunst Haus Dresden, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and the ICA, London. His 1989 video, They Are Lost to Vision Altogether, screened at the Whitney Biennial, the European Media Festival, Osnabruck, New Langdon Arts Gallery, Central Park Summer Stage and the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon.
Kalin was a founding member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, which received The Brendan Gill Prize (1989)and was included in the 1991Venice Bienale. Gran Fury created billboards, bus signs, posters and public projects in cities throughout the world with institutions including MoCA, Los Angeles; Neue Gesellschaft Furbildende Kunst, Berlin; The New Museum, The Studio Museum of Harlem and Tramways, Scotland.
He has taught at Brown University, Yale University and California Institute of the Arts. He is currently an Associate Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, Film Division. His essays and art criticism have been published in Art Forum, Aperture, Us, The Village Voice, The Independent and book anthologies including A Leap In The Dark, Les Gays Savoirs and How Do I Look? Kalin received a BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois (1984); a MFA in Photography & Video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1987) and did postgraduate study at The Whitney Museum, Independent Study Program (1988).
Filmography
2007 Savage Grace (Director/ Writer with Howard Rodman / Co-Producer)
1997 Office Killer (Co-Writer-- Directed by Cindy Sherman)
1996 I Shot Andy Warhol (Producer-- Directed by Mary Harron)
1994 Go Fish (Executive Producer)
1992 Swoon (Director/ Co-Producer)
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