Barry Jenkins, James Laxton, and Gregory Crewdson on creativity and collaboration

In these online 30-minute events, Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, asks each guest a list of simple questions about artistic practice, and the anticipation of an end to the pandemic crisis.

Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins’ feature film debut, "Medicine for Melancholy," was hailed as one of the best films of 2009 by The New York Times and received several Independent Spirit and Gotham Award nominations. In 2017, along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, Jenkins received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his second feature the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning Best Picture Moonlight. As well as earning eight Academy Award nominations, ten Broadcast Critics Choice Awards nominations, six Golden Globe nominations and four BAFTA nominations, "Moonlight" won Best Picture and Director at the Gotham Awards and Best International Film by the British Independent Film Awards. In addition to NYFCC and NBR awarding Jenkins Best Director and LAFCA naming him Best Director and the film Best Picture, Jenkins received a DGA Best Director nomination and won the WGA Award for Best Original Screenplay. His third feature, the adaptation of James Baldwin’s "If Beale Street Could Talk" went on to receive three Academy Award nominations and won Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards. Jenkins also received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director. Jenkins’ next feature film projects include a follow up to "The Lion King" for Walt Disney Studios as well as a biopic of famed choreographer, Alvin Ailey, for Searchlight Pictures. His next project for television is an adaptation of National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead’s "The Underground Railroad" for Amazon.

Director of photography James Laxton is best known for his work on "Moonlight," which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography and won the award for Best Picture. Laxton also received a prestigious American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases; the Independent Spirit Award; the Los Angeles Critics Association Award; the National Society of Film Critics Award; and the New York Film Critics Award—all for best cinematography. In 2018 Laxton teamed up with Jenkins again for "If Beale Street Could Talk." Most recently, Laxton completed production on "The Underground Railroad," also directed by Jenkins, being produced for Amazon Studios and set to be released in 2021.

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Part of the 2021 reprise of the Yale Photo MFA program’s Pop Up Lecture Series via Zoom, in which Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, interviews guests on the pandemic crisis and the nature of artistic practice.

Full information available here: https://www.art.yale.edu/photo-pop-up...