Developed as part of the Drawing from Film program at The Royal Drawing School, participants will be invited to call for the film to be paused for six minutes on any given still to complete fast-paced drawings in semi-darkness. These playful interactions offer new ways of looking and are an opportunity to consider the cinematographer’s point of view.

This session will be led by artist Leon Pozniakow, alum of the Royal Drawing School, co-founded by Catherine Goodman in 2000 to address the increasing absence of drawing in art education. Pozniakow is currently the School's New York Fellow, a position supported by Hauser & Wirth.

By using the director or cameraman’s eye, there is a sense in which compositional choices are made for you. Some people are more attracted to drawing portraits of people, others to large, panoramic landscapes. The experience can be quite playful: you have to compromise and accept being taken out of your comfort zone. By the end of the film, you will emerge with a cache of images and ideas. Sometimes you will find that the most stimulating images are those with which you were least comfortable at the time, and these can feed into your wider artistic practice.’ —Catherine Goodman

This session will feature Sergei Parajanov‘s film ‘The Color of Pomegranates’ (1969). In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, the film revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative.

For the sake of timing, the film will not be shown in its entirety. All drawing abilities are welcome. Materials will be provided.

This event is free, but capacity is limited. Reservations are required. Photographs and video may be taken at this event for use on Hauser & Wirth’s website and social media channels, and in other marketing materials.