The Frick Film Program
In 2015, The Frick Collection and the Ghetto Film School (GFS) launched The Frick Film Project, a collaboration between the Bronx-based independent film organization and the celebrated museum.
The Program
The initiative provides onsite education across two creative disciplines - the fine arts and the cinematic arts.
Throughout the year, students in the Fellows Program at Ghetto Film School participate in seminars led by the Frick’s Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon, and members of the Frick’s curatorial team.
The seminars focus on the concept of narrative in the works of art in the museum’s collection and encourage the students to consider the visual arts in relation to their own storytelling and filmmaking. The program culminates with the creation of student-produced short films inspired by the Frick and filmed on location at the museum.
This program presents a great opportunity for students to see art-making, and explore museums and galleries as a rich source material.
Widening and diversifying the scope of their artistic inspiration, helps them think about their stories on a deeper level, and gain a bigger picture view of where they fit into a long history of storytelling in the art world.
“The Frick Film Project has been an exciting and marvelous partnership between GFS and The Frick Collection.
Together we foster and celebrate the astonishing talent and creativity of extraordinary individuals.”
— Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection
Frick Film Project Films
The program culminates with the creation of a student-produced short film inspired by the Frick and filmed on location at the museum.
Click below to watch films from 2016-2022
“Reverie”, “I Didn’t Ask To Be Here”, “Found Art”, “Meeting My Gaze”
- 2020 and 2021 Frick Film Projects
“His Diana” - 2019 Frick Film Project
“Little Things” - 2017 Frick Film Project
“Invisible Man” - 2020 Frick Film Project Virtual Screening
“Unfinished Piece” - 2018 Frick Film Project
“The Progress of Love” - 2016 Frick Film Project