Visitors enjoy the 2011 MFA Graduate Exhibition at the Winery SF on Treasure Island.
Radical Directing Lecture Series
Carroll Ballard
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 7:30pm
Lecture Hall
Free and open to the public San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA |
Nominated for an Academy Award for the 1967 documentary Harvest, Carroll Ballard made his feature directorial debut with The Black Stallion (1979), an adaptation from the novel of the same name by Walter Farley. He went on to direct Never Cry Wolf (1983) and Fly Away Home (1996), which was nominated for an Academy Award for best cinematography. His most recent film is Duma (2005), about a young South African boy’s friendship with an orphaned cheetah.
Ballard is featured in Fog City Mavericks (2007), a documentary about the Bay Area's most visionary filmmakers, including Ballard, Brad Bird, Bruce Conner, Chris Columbus, Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas.
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Organized to complement a new course taught by Film Department Chair Lynn Hershman Leeson for SFAI’s MFA program in Film, the Radical Directing Lecture Series emphasizes techniques and styles that veer from traditional narratives, as well as the conceptual frameworks directors use to cinematically articulate characters, plot, subtext, tension, and drama.
