NOTE: The time of this event is TBD.
The Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse will partner with the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies to host a screening of Ivans Xtc starring Peter Weller. A Q+A with Peter Weller will follow the screening.
Ivans Xtc is a modern retelling of Lev Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich set in Hollywood, following a high-powered agent whose life spirals after the overdose death of his colleague and friend Ivan Beckman. As Ivan’s world of ambition, addiction and moral compromise is revealed through flashbacks, the film critiques the excess and emptiness of the entertainment industry. Ultimately, it paints a stark portrait of Hollywood’s destructive pressures and the human cost behind its glamour.
Join us the day before on April 23 at the Columbus Museum of Art for a talk by Peter Weller on Classical-Medieval-Renaissance art's relationship to modern film.
Dr. Peter Weller is an Italian Renaissance art historian, actor and director. He received his PhD in Art History with a specialization in Italian Renaissance Art from UCLA. He is the author of “Donatello’s Bronze David in the Twenty-First Century,” 2012, an article on the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello, as well as an essay contribution on the Italian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina (in Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas, Brill, 2018). He is also known as the star of the films Robocop (1987) and Robocop 2 (1990), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1984), and Naked Lunch (1991). His more recent appearances (roles and guest roles) include Star Trek Into Darkness(2013), the TV series Dexter (2010), and 24 (2006). Dr. Weller is also a director, having directed numerous episodes of Sons of Anarchy (2011-2014), Longmire (2012-2017), and, most recently, Hawaii Five-O (2013-2019).
Dr. Weller recently published Leon Battista Alberti in Exile: Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting. In this volume, Peter Weller challenges the popular notion that De pictura's compendium on lines, points, mathematics, composition, narrative, and portraiture is primarily the result of Alberti's return to Florence and his short exposure to its visual art. Weller argues that Rome, Padua, Bologna, and northern Europe – environs where Alberti studied, worked, and lived during exile – empowered his paramount intellectual-artistic gift. Scrutiny of Alberti's evolution before Florence illuminates how this original Renaissance man merged the two most conspicuous cultural developments of early modern Italy – visual art and humanism — to create De pictura, our first modern book on painting.
Parking and Directions
Studio 35 is located in the Clintonville area of Columbus, Ohio on Indianola Ave (between N Broadway & Weber Rds). There is limited parking on Indianola (check the street signs) & some available in the neighborhood.
For public transportation, take the #4 bus from campus to the Indianola Ave / Milford Ave stop. Studio 35 is a one minute walk from the bus stop.
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