Join LAJFF for an exclusive screening of the film "Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide" online, streaming of the film from July 15, 2021.

Watch the pre-recorded Q&A at the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/LosAngelesJewishFilmFestival/videos/364705641715576

Q&A panelists includes:

KENNY SCHARF, artist, subject of film

MALIA SCHARF, co-director

MAX BASCH, co-director

DAVID TOTAH, owner of TOTAH Gallery, NY

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STREAMING WINDOW through July 15! WATCH ANYTIME ON YOUR OWN!

Synopsis of film: The documentary, "Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide" was made over 11 years and profiles the noted Pop artist with testimonials and rare archival footage with Scharf and Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and interviews with Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Yoko Ono and others.

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley in LA, Kenny Scharf's quintessential Jewish family placed importance on tradition and middle class values. His parents supported his interest in art from a young age, taking him to visit museums and galleries.

When Scharf arrived in New York City in the early 1980s, he quickly befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. This trio, amongst the fervent creative bustle of a depressed downtown scene, would soon take the art world by storm. While Basquiat and Haring both died tragically young, Scharf lived through cataclysmic shifts in the East Village as well as the ravages of AIDS and economic depression.

'When Worlds Collide' is about the art of fun, about living life out loud, despite setbacks, and about Kenny Scharf’s particular do-it-yourself, high-tone, technicolor artistic vision. Scharf currently lives in LA and you can see his murals citywide. His acclaimed and recent exhibitions include the Hammer Museum, MOCA, Pasadena Art Museum, Nassau County Museum of Art in NY and others.

In cooperation with the City of WeHo, Nassau County Museum of Art, Artists 4 Israel, Oakwood School and TOTAH Gallery.