Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin: In My Life

Paul Tschinkel

Nan Goldin

This documentary features Nan Goldin’s celebrated 1996 mid-career photography retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Goldin’s exhibition filled an entire floor at the Whitney Museum with pictures that chronicle her involvement and fascination with the alternative, “downtown” culture of New York City, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, etc. Culled from a period that spans more than 25 years of taking pictures, Goldin’s desire to make a visual diary of her friends and lovers, as well as her own life, makes for a moving, highly charged, visual experience.

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin, Kenny Angelico

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.

I'll Be Your Mirror

Nan Goldin, Edmund Coulthard

Nan Goldin

Considered the most intimate portrait of life & work of American photographer Nan Goldin. Collaborating with British documentary director Edmund Coulthard, the film also paints a sharp portrait of a generation, reconstructing disquiet from the extraordinary biographical account of the photographer.

You Are Not I

Sara Driver

Suzanne Fletcher, Melody Schneider

A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister's house by a rescue volunteer. Then the real story begins...

Empty Suitcases

Bette Gordon

Rosemary Hochschild, Ron Vawter

Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of representation and identification in cinema."

Nan Goldin: I Remember Your Face

Sabine Lidl

Nan Goldin

Documentary portrait of the New York photographer Nan Goldin.

Variety

Bette Gordon

Sandy McLeod, Luis Guzmán

A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patron of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tickets.

Under Lock and Key

Beth B

Philip Horvitz, Nan Goldin

Under Lock and Key is the single-channel version of an installation that premiered at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 1993. Using the "talking head" confessional as a stylistic device, B creates a social and psychological narrative wherein the act of speaking becomes therapeutic affirmation. B asked individuals who had suffered domestic violence to compose and read letters to those who had abused them. Their stories, addressed to their abusers and spoken directly to the camera, are intercut with comments by serial killer Ted Bundy and quotes from convicted murderer Jack Henry Abbott's prison memoir, In the Belly of the Beast.

The Other Side

Nan Goldin

The Other Side was produced as an homage to Nan Goldin’s transgender friends whom she lived with and photographed from 1972 to 2010. The work celebrates the “gender euphoria” of her friends, in their possibilities for transcendence.

Sirens

Nan Goldin

Goldin’s first work made up solely of found-footage video, Sirens assembles clips from movies by the likes of Kenneth Anger, Lynne Ramsay, Michelangelo Antonioni, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Jack Smith, as well as wild documentary footage from the Manson family. Sirens was inspired by Donyale Luna, the first Black supermodel, who overdosed at the age of 33.

Memory Lost

Nan Goldin

Memory Lost (2019-2021) recounts a life lived through a lens of drug addiction. This captivating, beautiful and haunting journey unfolds through an assemblage of intimate and personal imagery to offer a poignant reflection on memory and the darkness of addiction.

Heartbeat

Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin - Contacts

Jean-Pierre Krief

Nan Goldin

The Contacts collection is an invitation to discover the artistic approach of the greatest contemporary photographers from an original angle. Through a series of images (contact sheets, proofs, prints and slides), with a commentary by the photographer, the viewer enters the secret world of their creation and is guided into the heart of the photographic creative process.