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FILM: James Castle: Portrait of an Artist and Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life

Thursday, November 10, 7:00 pm

$10 / $12 nonmembers

Double feature for the BIG IDEA project, Idaho Stories. The James Castle film will screen first, at 7pm. Hemingway film to follow.

James Castle: Portrait of an Artist (53 minutes) tells the story of Castle, born deaf in 1899 in rural Idaho – only nine years after the frontier territory was admitted to the Union – who mined the local landscape of his family’s homesteads and his own deeply private world to produce an astonishing body of drawings, collages, and constructions that eventually gained worldwide recognition. Jeffrey Wolf’s acclaimed film reveals Castle’s life and creative process, as told by family members, art historians, curators, artists, collectors, and members of the deaf community. This inspirational story of a true Outsider Artist is a remarkable example of the triumph of the spirit – and the imagination.

Hemingway: Wrestling with Life (100 minutes) takes a deep look at one of the 20th century’s great literary figures through still photography, commentaries and readings, and guided by the narration of his granddaughter Mariel Hemingway. This film, directed by Stephen Crisman, takes us from Hemingway’s Midwestern childhood through his tragic suicide in Ketchum.

Part of The Center’s BIG IDEA project Idaho Stories, Oct 21, 2016 – Jan 6, 2017.

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