[Film]
Film: Umbrellas

About This Event

Umbrellas
U.S. premiere of director's cut
Sunday, July 1, 4:30 p.m.
A dramatic but ill-fated experiment, Umbrellas was Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1991 project to simultaneously open huge blue and yellow umbrellas positioned in the landscapes of Japan and Southern California. Umbrellas drew thousands of viewers but ultimately high winds toppled one of the California works, causing injuries and a death, and immediately closed both sites. This well-known documentary—one of the most ambitious to chronicle a Christo installation—is shown in a new director's cut and an all-new digital print. (Albert Maysles, Henry Corra, 1994, HD-Cam, 81 minutes)

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