InsideOUT Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending the premiere for JR’s new film InsideOut: The People Art Project as part of the Tribeca Film Festival, currently being held in NYC. The film was a powerful testament of how art when put in the hands of the people can influence how we view our world and interact with each other.
After winning the TED Prize in 2011, JR’s wish was to use art as an agent of change to turn our world inside out. The film chronicles participants from around the world in the InsideOut Project, which has distributed over 120,000 posters to people and still growing.
Peep the trailer below and make sure to check out the film when it officially airs on HBO on May 20th. – LOM
Summary
A wall can be a barrier. It can be a structure of limitation or a source of repression. For the Inside Out Project, a wall is a canvas, and so are sides of trains, the arches of bridges and the steps leading to Brooklyn brownstones. This fascinating documentary tracks the evolution of the world’s largest participatory art project, the wildly popular Inside Out. From Haiti to Tunisia, South Dakota to the streets of Paris, French artist JR motivates communities to define their most important causes by pasting giant portraits in the street, testing the limits of what they thought possible. The power of paper turns people who feel without voice into unlikely activists by empowering them with their own images.
Alastair Siddons artfully curates each geographic vignette with a combination of breathtaking urban landscapes and introspective explorations of individuality. Perfectly capturing both the hope and heartbreak within each story, Inside Out is a call to action for anyone who believes in the role that art can play in transforming lives.
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