Ojai Playhouse
2024
Director: Nadia Szold
Original Music by Daniel Wright
Music Edit by Scott Hirsch
Cinematography by Christian Huguenot
Title and Poster Design by Johanna Bjork
Additional photography by Marc Alt
Starring: Geoffrey Young, James Siena, Kirsten Dierup, Clark Coolidge, Carroll Dunham, Kenneth Goldsmith, Laura Chester, Peter Gizzi, Joanna Drucker
Format: DCP
Running Time: 1hr 20min
Poet, publisher, gallerist, artist Geoffrey Young eschewed the traditional route of climbing the establishment ladder, instead operating in parallel. Yet he is no outsider artist. His thumb has always been on the pulse of the avant-garde, whether in art or poetry.
The Figures began as a small literary press in Berkeley but it continually charted new territory, championing one of the most influential movements in latter 20th century literature — “language poetry.” And The Geoffrey Young Gallery always shined a light on young artists just breaking onto the scene. Perhaps Geoffrey Young, instead, is the ultimate insider artist. A true poet’s poet. Certainly a significant figure worthy of a closer look. The Figures: An Abstract on Geoffrey Young traverses the studios of artists & writers in his orbit as they dive into a freewheeling volley on the art making practice, lineages and the essence of time & language itself.
West Coast Premiere!
Q&A with Geoffrey Young, Daniel Wright, and Nadia Szold.