Donna Uchizono

Uchizono talks about movement as a medium for personal and political transformation.

Donna Uchizono: Fluidity

Christopher Makos

Makos recounts the unique social creativity of the Factory and his friendship with Andy Warhol.

Christopher Makos: Fluidity

Em Rooney

Kevin Moore talks to Artist Em Rooney. Rooney considers our place as biological, sentient beings inhabiting industrial environments.

Em Rooney: Modern Art

Kevin Moore talks to Visual Artist and Filmmaker Rosa Barba. Barba talks about the versatility of film and its aptness for contemplating the modern world.

Rosa Barba: Modern Art

Mitch Epstein

Epstein captures the beauty and terror of the world in photographs rich in political import.

Mitch Epstein: In the Details

Karl Haendel

Haendel invests meaning in slow drawing as a form of homage to the social and spiritual work of his subjects.

Karl Haendel: In the Details

Ozier Muhammad

Photojournalist Ozier Muhammad reminisces about growing up among the Nation of Islam, bearing witness to famines, earthquakes, and political campaigns, and the necessity of seeking inspiration.

Silas Riener

Silas Riener talks about dance traditions, broadening gender categories through dance, and improvisational performance as a forum on social cohesion.

Liz Chidester

Chidester talks about growing up in the mountains, performing on cruise ships, and the progress of millennials.

Liz Chidester: Homemade

Andrea McGinty

McGinty expresses mixed feelings about cat litter, wellness advice, and Clint Eastwood.

Andrea McGinty: Homemade

Twilight Talks is a series of conversations with arts and culture professionals about their work and unique perspectives on contemporary life. Born out of the new political reality — post-election 2016 — the talks are held at twilight overlooking New York City’s West Side.Twilight Talks is produced by Emmy Award-winning producer Wilson Reyes and hosted by independent curator and writer Kevin Moore.

Twilight Talks is a series of conversations with arts and culture professionals about their work and unique perspectives on contemporary life. Born out of the new political reality — post-election 2016 — the talks are held at twilight overlooking New York City’s West Side.<br><br>Twilight Talks is produced by Emmy Award-winning producer Wilson Reyes and hosted by independent curator and writer Kevin Moore.

CUNY TV's Twilight Talks

André Aciman

André Aciman is a writer and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Graduate Center. His books, from Out of Egypt to Enigma Variations, explore subjects ranging from sexuality to exile. Call Me By Your Name has reached wider popularity through a successful film adaptation, winner of Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy awards. Aciman has confirmed that he is writing a sequel, which will also be directed by Luca Guadagnino and likely to welcome back stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer. Aciman’s other books are gaining more attention and it won’t be a surprise to see more adaptations.

Cecilia Vicuña

In this episode, Kevin Moore talks to poet, artist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña about lost knowledge, the exploitative mind, and a long career of environmental art and activism.

Kate Steciw

Steciw discusses our alarmingly expanding and fractured media universe and attempts at momentary stasis and wholeness through play, humor, and irreverence.

Caleb Crain

Caleb Crain explores the dark side of internet privacy and the fate of the novel in the 21st century.

William Wegman

William Wegman talks about the pleasure of puzzles, a dog’s perspective on life, and humor in art.

David Benjamin

David Benjamin Sherry mourns the loss of species on the planet and describes his approach to sensing the deep wisdom embedded in nature as a mild form of comfort.

David Benjamin Sherry

Kevin Moore talks with artist and gallerist Janice Guy about how feminism and world politics have changed over forty years of making and exhibiting art.

Janice Guy

Mamma Andersson

Karin Mamma Andersson discusses nordic light, the dog days of the world, and taking a long view of history.

Karin Mamma Andersson

Sarah Braman

Artist Sarah Braman considers the lessons of community and family, of believing you can do what you put your mind to, respecting the pain of others, and art as a road to being your best self.

Barbara Probst

Kevin Moore talks to photographer Barbara Probst about multiple points of view and photography as an obstacle--not an aid--to understanding reality.

Kevin Moore talks with Swiss journalist and documentary filmmaker Jean-Cosme Delaloye about bearing witness to vulnerable lives, exercises in empathy, and political decisions that make a difference.

Jean-Cosme Delaloye

MICHAEL HALSBAND

Kevin also talks to photographer and filmmaker Michael Halsband, who reflects on being a product of American pop culture and his portrait sessions with Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Rolling Stones, and others.

Michael Halsband

Dave Davidson

Documentary filmmaker and City College professor Dave Davidson discusses his latest film, Cinema and Sanctuary, and CCNY as the first documentary film school in the US, led by German avant-garde artist Hans Richter during the 1940s.

Aliza Nisenbaum

Nisenbaum talks about painting as a mode of being present to others and, in those situations, confronting complex feelings as social beings.

Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli discusses the creation of tranquil and mystical spaces in his art as a protection against the onslaught of chaotic world events and toxic news.

Artist Summer Wheat talks about making paintings in three dimensions and honoring art by anonymous artists and craftswomen of the past.

Summer Wheat

Christopher Myers

Christopher Myers, a children's book illustrator, artist and writer, discusses the "maladies of modernism" and embracing the mess of mixed cultural identities.

Roger Ross Williams

Roger Ross Williams, the first African-American director to win an Academy Award, talks about documentary films satisfying a "hunger for truth" and empathy for the lives of others.

Kevin Bewersdorf

Bewersdorf muses on the broken promises of the internet and finding satisfaction in making Gifs, movies, and music.

Nanette Burstein

Burstein describes biographical filmmaking and the pitfalls of public perception for controversial figures such as Hillary Clinton.

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