The Art on Film series continues at the Three Rivers Arts Festival with features on Pablo Picasso, a scandal in the art world and metal band Pentagram.
All are free and will be shown at the Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown.
Here is the lineup from Pittsburgh Filmmakers:
Today
6:30
p.m.: "Stolen Art" -- In New York City in 1978, unknown Czech artist
Pavel Novak held an exhibit called "Stolen Art," which featured
paintings by Rembrandt, Courbet, Van Gogh and other great masters, all
reproduced with astonishing accuracy. After a claim by a private
collector that one was stolen, the FBI shut down the show, and Mr. Novak
disappeared. Years later, filmmaker Simon Backes looks at the scandal
created by the outlaw artist. 56 min.7:45 p.m.: "Last Days Here": Chronicle of cult metal legend Bobby Liebling's bid to resurrect his life and career after decades wasting away in his parents' basement. The musician made his mark in the '70s as the frontman of Pentagram, but self-destruction, multiple band breakups and botched record deals condemned his music to obscurity. 90 min.
Friday
7:15 p.m.: "The Mystery of Picasso" -- In the 1950s, director Henri-Georges Clouzot positioned his camera behind a semi-transparent surface on which Pablo Picasso painted with special inks that bled through, providing a perfect reverse image of the artist's brush strokes and allowing the movie screen to double as the canvas. With subtitles. 76 min.
8:45 p.m.: "Between Madness and Art": An examination of the relationship between psychological states and the creative impulse, focusing on Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933), director of the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic in the 1920s. He was fascinated by the beauty and expressiveness of the drawings, paintings and sculptures of his schizophrenic patients. With subtitles. 75 min.
Saturday
3 p.m.: "The Mystery of Picasso."
4:30 p.m.: "Stolen Art."
5:45 p.m.: "Eames: The Architect and the Painter": The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America's most important designers. Their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life -- from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age -- have been less widely understood. James Franco narrates this look at the pair. 83 min.
7:30 p.m.: "Between Madness and Art"
Sunday
1 p.m.: Pride Week Short Films -- Shorts presented by the Lesbian and Gay Film Society.
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