Calendar of Events: Film Screening: Portrait of a Garden

Event Date: Oct 26, 2016 12:00 PM - Nov 1, 2016 1:00 PM

Film Forum is proud to present the US theatrical premiere of Rosie Stapel’s PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN, beginning Wednesday, October 26. The oldest and most beautiful “kitchen garden” in the Netherlands belongs to an estate that dates backs to 1630. Today it is owned by Daan van der Have, who cares for it meticulously, with 85-year- old pruning master Jan Freriks; they have been working together for 20 years. Stapel’s debut feature records their passionate oversight of the innumerable vegetables and flowering trees to which they are devoted. The two are marvelous company, whether shaping a black mulberry espalier (the rules for which date back to King Louis XIV), debating the proper care for bear’s garlic, fennel, spring green cabbage, beetroot or Japanese wine berry, or contemplating their 15-year wait for the pear trees on both sides of an arbor to grow into a perfect semi-circle. They console themselves that “banking will diminish due to automation, but thinning our plums is here to stay.” Their connoisseurship, depth of knowledge (extending back generations), and exacting care, bear beautiful fruit – and a compelling, meditative film.

Some of the additional plants grown, discussed, and pruned in this film include the limequat, Meyer lemon, quince, broad bean, Swiss chard, raspberry, tomato, potato, radicchio, rhubarb, globe artichoke, spinach, iceberg lettuce, sour cherry, horseradish, gooseberry, marrowfat pea, and coriander.

PORTRAIT OF A GARDEN will be screened for ONE WEEK ONLY, October 26 – November 1, at Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street (West of 6 th Avenue), with screenings daily at 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, and 9:25.

Rosie Stapel (b. 1971, The Netherlands) studied woodworking and arts at Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and has worked for many years as a production designer for movies, including those of Peter Greenaway. She teaches production design at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht.

Location:
209 West Houston Street (West of 6 th Avenue)
New York, NY

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