Screening of "Tell Them We Were Here" + Q&A with filmmakers Griff Williams & Keelan Williams kvmr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kvmr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
G. Allen Johnson May 5, 2021Updated: May 10, 2021, 1:35 pm
San Francisco artist Alicia McCarthy is one of the eight Bay Area artists featured in “Tell Them We Were Here.” Photo: Courtesy BAMPFA
The worldview of the new documentary “Tell Them We Were Here,” which profiles eight current Bay Area artists whose work over the decades has not only made an impact but also helped inform the Bay Area’s artistic identity, is expressed by an early voice-over in the film: “Artists in the Bay Area are more devoted to a ‘life’ in arts rather than a ‘career’ in arts.”
The inventive and informative film by artist and Gallery 16 founder Griff Williams and filmmaker Keelan Williams made its world premiere in the virtual cinema of the Berkeley Art Museum’s Pacific Film Archive on Friday, May 7. It also features local curators from BAMPFA, Oakland Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as well as other observers and artists such as filmmaker Eleanor Cop