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  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary The Melt Goes on Forever chronicles the singular career of the elusive African-American art star David Hammons from Watts rebellion era ’60s L.A. to global art world prominence today. Hammons’ category-defying practice – rooted in a deep critique of American society and the elite art world – is in the words of one art critic “an invitati...

Directed By: Harold Crooks, Judd Tully

Written By: Harold Crooks

  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 41 m

The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons

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Summary The Melt Goes on Forever chronicles the singular career of the elusive African-American art star David Hammons from Watts rebellion era ’60s L.A. to global art world prominence today. Hammons’ category-defying practice – rooted in a deep critique of American society and the elite art world – is in the words of one art critic “an invitati...

Directed By: Harold Crooks, Judd Tully

Written By: Harold Crooks

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70
Jun 7, 2023
A documentary film about a living artist is especially difficult to do when the subject won’t participate, including not sitting for an interview. That’s one reason why The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons is noteworthy. The film is absorbing anyhow, minus the artist’s retrospective musings, thanks to contributions from many smart and observant artists and others.
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70
May 4, 2023
This is a substantial, patiently made, entertaining portrait, with a percussive, rhythmic jazz score by Ramachandra Borcar and some emphatic spoken word courtesy of Umar Bin Hassan of the Last Poets. But eventually, the rich interpretive consideration of Hammons’s essence, philosophy and process starts to vanish.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 6, 2023
While it is engaging to witness and hear of the ways that Hammons has continued to reject and undermine this market-minded approach to his work in the present day, the film’s focus on tracing Hammons’ work through capital, be it social or monetary, leaves the film with a bottom-heavy feeling of what can only be described as “ick.”
By Sarah-Tai Black FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Rosie Filmwaze
Release Date May 5, 2023
Duration 1 h 41 m
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Website https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/the-melt-goes-on-forever-the-art-times-of-david-hammons/
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Awards

International Documentary Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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