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Matinee: 'Final Show Creative Retreat'
5 October 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 572nd in our series of Saturday matinees today: Final Show Creative Retreat.
Last year we brought you a matineed titled A Writing & Photography Workshop that featured the work of eight photographers at a workshop in Siena led by Sal Taylor Kydd.
The 7-minute video from this year's final show from the creative retreat Kydd led in Spannocchia is just as mesmerizing as last year's. So we're delighted to feature it again.
This year's video features the photography of Ingeborg Norshus, Kirsten Hoving, Tone Andersen, Carole Cavanaugh, Emma Powell. Each segment is about a minute and a half.
Workshop attendees were again hosted at Tenuta di Spannocchia, a 16th century villa that was once the home of the aristocratic Spannocchi family. It was expanded in the 18th century and purchased by the Cinelli family in 1925. Furnished with historic paintings, original antiques and family heirlooms, it has seven double bedrooms with private baths for guests.
(Oh, and that music during the second half of the video? Regina Carter playing Paganini's Guarnero violin, known as the Canon. Which is a story all to itself.)
And, like last year, the workshop also released a Behind the Scenes video:
Which suggests it wasn't all work in Spannocchia.