On Thursday, May 30, at 7:00 pm, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center will host a work-in-progress screening of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You, the short documentary film that will accompany Aidan Ryan’s forthcoming book of the same name to be published next year by the University of Iowa Press.
The book is in part a biography of Ryan’s aunt and uncle, the visual artists Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski, and in part a memoir tracing their influence on his own path into the arts and development as a writer. The short film follows the arc of the book, with visuals of the art he discovered along the way and interviews with key figures in Suffoletto’s and Topolski’s lives and legacies.
The purpose of a work-in-progress screening is to gather feedback to inform the last stages of post-production editing. Following the screening there will be time for a Q&A and feedback session. The event is free and open to the public.
Ryan has published memoir and cultural criticism in Public Books, The Millions, The Adroit Journal, Colorado Review, The White Review, CNN International, Irish America, the NEH’s Humanities, and Traffic East, where he is a senior editor.
He is also a cofounder and publisher of Foundlings Press, which has produced books, chapbooks, anthologies, broadsides, and archival works by new and established authors such as Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright, D.A. Powell, Mary Ruefle, Frank Stanford, and many others.
You can read more about the film and screening here:
https://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/6532.html
You can learn more about Aidan Ryan here:
Submitted by: Mick Cochrane, Professor, English
