New York Close Up
Art21
documentary, digital series, 2013-2022
Commissioned by Art21, this digital documentary film series is devoted to artists in the first decade of their professional career, living and working in New York City.
Profiling each artist in multiple short films shot over the years, the series offers a rare glimpse into today’s most intriguing young artists as their creative processes, artistic aspirations and lives evolve over time.
Starting our collaboration in 2013, we have produced 17 films to date.
Films by Rava Films.
The idiosyncratic performance artist and recent mother Aki Sasamoto, day-dreams at a bar of drinking whiskey and creating an artwork of self-spinning whiskey glasses.
Does healing have a soundtrack?
How far can an artist bend without breaking?
What if your life was a cartoon?
Have you ever wanted a Photoshop tutorial from an artist?
How does an artist keep it interesting in the studio?
What makes a painter paint?
What if the Internet had a body?
How does a Brooklyn artist imagine both her past and future?
VICE | Conversation through Comics
NOWNESS | Art21: Daniel Gordon
COLOSSAL | Through Totemic Sculptures and Sound Art, Guadalupe Maravilla Explores the Therapeutic Power of Indigenous Ritual
PSYCHE | Aki Sasamoto: an artist walks into a bar
Vimeo Staff Pick team selects Rava’s “An Artist Walks Into A Bar” as one of their favorite ‘Films on Art’ from the past 10 years of Vimeo Staff Pick history
NOWNESS | Aki Sasamoto: An Artist Walks into a Bar
BOOOOOOOM TV | “Aki Sasamoto: An Artist Walks into a Bar” by Art21
THE NEW YORKER | The Healing Art of Harmonic Vibrations