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ABOUT GEOFF KLOCK: Your host is Geoff Klock, who has a doctorate from Oxford and is a tenured full professor at CUNY where he teaches about Plato, Shakespeare and Psychosexual Nightmare Cinema. Geoff will be pausing the movie along the way to discuss the film not the way a filmmaker or historian would but the way a poetry or philosophy professor would — with a lot of attention on psychology, irony, metaphor, ideas and craft.

A VIEW ON HOPPER: LYNCH'S "BLUE VELVET"

Film Screening & Discussion with Geoff Klock, PhD
Friday, April 25, 2025
5:30-9:00 pm

$10 EHH Members; $15 Public 

Join us for a special film screening and discussion of David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" with Geoff Klock of CUNY.  It is a perfect union with the current exhibition, "PORTAL The Window in American Photography."

The philosopher Walter Benjamin said that “ideas are to objects what constellations are to stars.” What kinds of patterns might be revealed by thinking about the works of Edward Hopper in the context of works by artists who share a spiritual kinship?
Our series continues with David Lynch, who began life as a painter — and whose Blue Velvet uses the Hopper-esque figure of a nude woman isolated in an apartment as a jumping off point for a study of 1950s small-town America, one where where voyeurism reveals a catastrophic evil around the corner, tantalizingly just out of frame.

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY, is pleased to present twenty-three images by seventeen nationally and globally esteemed photographers drawn from the collection of the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY.
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