Tashilham
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This engaging documentary film invites the viewer into a Soho studio for a lively conversation between two old friends, and in the process provides a look into the mind of an artist (renowned New York School painter and sculptor Irving Kriesberg) interacting with the mind of a perceptive viewer (anthropologist and psychotherapist Judith Gleason).

As they examine Kriesberg’s work Tashilham (Tibetan for fortunate journey), a series of 39 interrelated paintings intended to be viewed as thirty-eight consecutive diptychs, the two begin to gently disagree on the motives and meanings         behind the evocative, boldly colored canvases.

The dialogues heats up, they contrast their views of the work -- where the painter sees lines and dots, texture, color and form, his mythologically-oriented interlocutor sees a narrative journey of dangerous forests, monsters and a reluctant hero -- and as they argue and tease, they cut right to the heart of the question, “How and why does art convey meaning?”

Michael Camerini & Shari Robertson
Producer/Directors
with
Muse Film and Television, NYC

National U.S. Broadcast on OVATION.

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