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Portraits:
The Uncovered Work of Ricardo Nicolayevsky Sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Institute
In the 1980s, Mexican filmmaker Ricardo Nicolayevsky lived and worked in New York City. During that time he filmed intimate portraits of his friends, lovers and acquaintances with a Super-8 camera. Nearly 20 years later these mesmerizing films will receive their first public screenings in New York. Carefully restored and digitized by the maker himself, these films are celluloid time capsules to our recent - but altogether distant - past. Featuring images of video virtuosa, Ximena Cuevas and the incomparable Michael Musto. “The most important things for me when making a film: when shooting, keep painting close to heart; do poetry on film; give the soundtrack the power of portraying; play, improvise, leave the doors and windows open.” - Ricardo Nicolayevsky
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