Join the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art for a screening of Are You Really My Friend? The Movie  5 to 6 p.m., Sept. 18. A short Q & A will follow the screening with artist and executive producer Tanja Hollander and director Robin Greenspun.

Hollander is an artist who works with photography, video, social media, and data to understand cultural and visual relationships. From 2011-16, Hollander set out to differentiate the real from the virtual by photographing all of her 626 Facebook friends. Since then, she has been traveling internationally, setting up in-person meetings in her friends' homes to discover the ways in which friendship is defined and how permission is granted into one's private, yet very public, online life.

Along the way, Hollander has collected Post-It notes from communities around the globe answering the question: "What is a real friend?" The notes range from the silly to the profound. The Post-It notes are part of an exhibition, Are You Really My Friend? debuted in its entirety as an exhibition, short documentary, and book at MASS MoCA in 2017. The latest version is a new installation at the Delano through Sept. 22. Hollander’s interactive project is the featured work within the Delano Art Series, a rotating exhibition platform. 

Join us for the L.A. screening of the Alumni Reel!

Thursday, February 22, 2018

7:00 p.m.: Screening of 32 short clips from Hampshire College Alumni, followed by a talk by Are you really my friend? executive producer/cinematographer/photographer Tanja Hollander 90F and producer/director Robin Greenspun

8:30 p.m.: Reception and Book Signing with Tanja Hollander, with drinks and light hors d’oeuvres

Tanja Hollander is a Maine-based portrait and landscape photographer. Sections of her six-year Are you really my friend? project have been exhibited at the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, Massachusetts), Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (Dresden, Germany). The project was shown in its entirety at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, in 2017. 

Robin Greenspun has enjoyed a diverse career in media and the arts spanning more than 40 years. Along with her husband, Danny Greenspun 73S, Robin owns the internationally acclaimed CineVegas Film Festival and was its president until its hiatus, in 2010. In addition, the Greenspuns were partners in Stone Village Pictures, a production company specializing in adapting literary works, such as Love in the Time of Cholera, Empire Falls, Penelope, and The Lincoln Lawyer, into motion pictures. 

Space is limited, so please register by Thursday, February 15.

The Alumni Reel is a curated collection of short film, television, and video clips showcasing the vision and creativity of our alums who work across these media

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Cinefemmes presents a special screening of documentary "Are You Really My Friend?" directed by local filmmaker and Nevada Woman Filmmaker of the Year 2016, Robin Greenspun (Semicolon; The Adventures of Ostomy Girl.) 

Synopsis: Maine-based photographer Tanja Alexia Hollander set out to differentiate the actual from the virtual by photographing all 626 of her Facebook friends. Since then, she has traveled across the globe, setting up in-person meetings in her friends' homes to discover the ways in which friendship is defined, and how permission is granted into one's private-yet also very public-online life.

The director Robin Greenspun and artist/subject Tanja Alexia Hollander will be in attendance to answer questions from the audience.

This event is free and open to the public.

Join Tanja and Robin (AYRMF The Movie. Director/Producer) at MASS MoCA. Book signing to follow.