#MetalMan - "Metal Man: The Story of Victor Ries"

San Francisco Bay Area:  We are excited to announce that our labor of love, a Documentary Short Film (approx. 40 minutes) on the life of Victor Ries...has earned a space in two local Film Festivals. Screening info follows trailer below....

"Metal Man: 

The Story of Victor Ries" 

"Metal Man" is part of a three film package entitled "The Art of Life".  

Metal artist Victor Ries had his 100th birthday in October 2007. His works are rooted in the German tradition of fine craftsmanship and respect for materials. Mentored by famed international architect, Eric Mendelsohn he emigrated to America and became a founding member of the legendary Pond Farm artist collective and school located in Northern California. His work helped bring about a new direction in liturgical art developing in post war America. His work encompassed everything from fine jewelry to major 30' high sculptures. At the time the documentary was filmed he was still working at 102 years old.

Produced and Directed by Bill Chayes:  His career in film production, exhibition design and education began while working with classic film documentarians Richard Leacock at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and John Marshall at the Center for Documentary Anthropology in Cambridge, Mass.

Festival Program HERE

Bill began a teaching career at Tufts University and Clark University in Massachusetts that culminated when he became Senior Lecturer in Film Production at San Francisco State University and was awarded the Meritorious Performance and Professional Excellence Award.

He served Berkeley, California’s Magnes Museum as Exhibition Designer and Curator of Film, Photography, Digital Art and Music where he designed and/or curated over 70 major exhibitions.                           http://chayesproductions.com/

Screening places, dates and times are as follows:

Sun October 5 at 16:00 in 142 Throckmorton, Mill Valley

Mon October 6 at 18:15 in Rafael 2 Theater, San Rafael

Tickets for our film "Metal Man: The Story of Victor Ries" at the Mill Valley Film Festival  go on sale this coming Sunday, Sept. 14th. 

For all information about where, when and how to purchase go to:

http://www.mvff.com/ticket-info/

It Is With Great Sadness That I Share This Report From The LA Times....

Antonio Pineda dies at 90; Mexican modernist silversmith

His works 'made absolutely beautiful use of semiprecious and precious stones,' and the jewelry was 'beautifully designed to fit the human body,' a museum curator says.

Antonio Pineda, the internationally renowned Mexican modernist silversmith who was praised for his bold, striking jewelry designs and ingenious use of gemstones, has died. He was 90.

Pineda died of kidney failure Monday at his ranch home in Taxco, Mexico, said his daughter Veronica Falzone.

A Taxco native, Pineda was among the most prominent of the many silversmiths to emerge from the mountain mining town beginning in the 1930s.

He was the subject of a 2008-09 exhibition at UCLA's Fowler Museum, “Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda,”which traced the evolution of his work through the 1970s.

"He was certainly one of the major modernist silversmiths in the 1950s, '60s and certainly into the '70s," said Betsy Quick, the Fowler's director of education and the show's in-house curator.

...for more of the story as reported in the Los Angeles Times... and a gorgeous photo gallery of Pineda's work