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Garrett Bradley
Talk

Presented at the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2024
Garrett Bradley in conversation with Rosella Calabrese, NYU Florence professor. Rossella Catanese, PhD in Digital Technologies and Methodologies for Performing Arts Research. She is a researcher at the University of Tuscia and professor at NYU Florence. She won the Limina Prize 2022 for the best Italian translation with Dai grani ai pixel. Il restauro del film nella transizione dall’analogico al digitale by Giovanna Fossati, awarded by the University Film Committee, as well as the Duchamp Research Grant 2023 from the Staatliches Museum in Schwerin, Germany. Among her publications are the monograph Lacune binarie. Il restauro dei film e le tecnologie digitali (Bulzoni, 2013) and the edited volumes Futurist Cinema: Studies in Italian Avant-garde Film (Amsterdam University Press, 2018) and From Sensation to Synaesthesia in Film and New Media (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, co-edited with F. Scotto Lavina and V. Valente). Her latest publication is Bill Morrison, Decasia: The State of Decay (2002). L’alchimia della rovina (Mimesis, 2023).
Garrett Bradley is an American artist, educator, and filmmaker. In 2020, Bradley presented her debut feature-length documentary, Time, which was nominated for more than fifty awards—including an Oscar—and won twenty, including the 2020 Peabody Award and the Best Director Award in the US Documentary Competition category at that year’s Sundance Film Festival, making her the first Black woman to win the award in the history of the festival. Bradley was a 2015 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is a recipient of the Prix de Rome (2019), the Arts and Letters Award for Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2022), and the Eye Filmmuseum’s Eye Art & Film Prize (2023). Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2019); the Momentary, Crystal Bridges, Arkansas (2021); the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh (2022); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022). Bradley’s recent book Devotion, released in February 2024, was the first in a series of research-led publications on artists by MIT Press and Lisson Gallery.
Selected Filmography
2022 Safe (Excerpt); 2021 Naomi Osaka; 2020 Time; 2019 Aka, America; 2018 The Earth is Humming; 2017 Alone; 2014 Below Dreams