For this episode, we dip into the archives for a 2009 conversation between Wexner Center for the Arts Associate Film/Video Curator Chris Stults and filmmaker Jeanne Liotta about her work Crosswalk, completed with support from the Wex Film/Video Studio. The work is streaming for the month of April 2020 at wexarts.org.

Want to know more about the work of the late, great, French filmmaker Agnés Varda? For this edition of Intro, Wex Associate Film/Video Curator Chris Stults, the organizer of the Wexner Center's mini retrospective of Varda's films in March 2020, discusses her work with Vera Brunner-Sung, a filmmaker, Ohio State professor, and fellow Varda fan. They cover some of their own experiences watching Varda's work and why it remains essential viewing nearly 50 years after her breakthrough film, 1961's Cleo from 5 to 7.

Wexner Center Film/Video Director David Filipi sits down with PR & Content Manager Melissa Starker to discuss the 6th annual celebration of the art of film restoration, including some of the other fests that helped inspire Cinema Revival and what you can expect to see this year.

Image: Buster Keaton in Go West, courtesy of Cohen Film Collection

We connected with three professors in Ohio State's Department of Dance for a uniquely informed introduction to the work of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham: David Covey, Karen Eliot, and Daniel Roberts, all of whom have been members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Alla Kovgan's 3D documentary CUNNINGHAM screens January 24-26 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. (Image of Cunningham with collaborators Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

For this episode, we're sharing a November 2019 talk by Elizabeth Weiser about the work of Jenny Holzer. The Ohio State Department of English professor explores the language Holzer utilizes in her series of Truisms and Inflammatory Essays, on view as part of the exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin. She also touches on the reactions they spur, and how a museum setting provides important context for the words Holzer initially wheat pasted on the streets of New York City. And Weiser discusses the work in relation to her most recent book, Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces.

Enjoy a chat with one of our favorite people, filmmaker Jennifer Reeder. An Ohio State alum, former Wex student employee and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient, Reeder has been making waves in the indie film world this fall with her feature debut as writer-director, the atmospheric thriller KNIVES AND SKIN. The work was completed with help from the residency award and the talk followed the film’s Columbus premiere at the Wex on September 13, 2019. She speaks with Film/Video Studio curator Jennifer Lange, a longtime supporter of Reeder's work, and Mike Olenick, a former Wex full-timer who’s edited most of Reeder’s films, including this one.

This WexCast shares a discussion from October 2019 between Wexner Center Film/Video Director David Filipi and the directors of the documentary American Factory, Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar. The talk came about as part of Julia Reichert: A Life in Film, a retrospective on the nearly 50-year career of the Academy Award-nominated Ohio filmmaker that's touring the US through June 2020. If you missed our screening but you’ve seen American Factory on Netflix, this is a terrific companion piece to your viewing experience.

For this WexCast, we share a conversation between Wex Executive Director Johanna Burton and the artists of our fall 2019 exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, and Maya Lin. The three Ohio-born makers discuss the works on view in the show, how their connections to the state have informed their respective practices, and the one other place on earth where you might’ve seen their work together. But first, an intro from Wex Senior Curator of Exhibitions Michael Goodson.

Gallery talk by Ohio University professor of art John Sabraw. The activist and artist joined us to discuss the Wex's fall 2019 exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin—specifically, Lin's two installations for this show, which illustrate human-driven changes to Ohio's waterways in dense concentrations of recycled steel pins and small glass beads.

Thanks to a collaboration between the Wexner Center, Ohio State's Department of English, and the 2019 Victorian Studies Association Conference, the Wex hosted a discussion with the great Mike Leigh on October 17. The writer-director behind such works as Secrets and Lies, Topsy Turvy, Naked, Vera Drake, and this year's Peterloo talked with Ohio State associate professor Sean O' Sullivan about his career and his approach to filmmaking.