Ivar Zeile
My blogs
Gender | Male |
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Industry | Arts |
Occupation | Art Dealer |
Location | Denver, Colorado |
Introduction | I am the owner, along with my wife Karen, of Plus Gallery, a progressive contemporary art and exhibition space in Denver, Colorado that represents both emerging and established artists and is widely considered one of the top art galleries in the city. |
Interests | Collecting art, Reading the New Yorker, Reading the Onion, listening to live music, viewing and collecting art-house cinema, reading Film comment and Cinemascope, Reading Flash Art, playing and watching tennis |
Favorite movies | Institute Benjamenta (Quay Brothers), Careful and Archangel (Guy Maddin), Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax), Beau Travail and Trouble Every Day (anything really by Claire Denis), Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders), Weekend and many other titles (by Jean Luc Godard), Werkmeister Harmonies(Bela Tarr), Breaking the Waves and the Kingdom (and just about everything by Lars Von Trier), Funny Games (and everything by Michael Haneke), Sweet Movie (Dusan Makjavek), Decasia, Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog), Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo), Stalker (and everything by Andrei Tarkovsky), Legend of Surami Forest (and everything by Sergei Paradjnov, The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee), Ran (Akira Kurosawa), The Cremaster Cycle (Mathew Barney), Double Life of Veronique and Red (pretty much everything by Krystof Kieslowski), Anatomy of Hell (Catherine Breillat), The Celebration (Thomas Vintberg), Kids (Larry Clark), Julian Donkey Boy (Harmony Korine), Inside/Out (Rob Tregenza), Ghost Dog Way of the Samurai (and pretty much all by Jim Jarmusch), Scenes from the Bohemian Life (Aki Karismaki), Man Bites Dog, All the Vermeers in NY and The Bed You Sleep In (Jon Jost), Anchoress, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Labyrinth of Dreams (Sogo Ishi), Late August/Early September and Demonlover (Olivier Assayas), etc... |
Favorite music | Nick Cave, Tindersticks, The National, Goldfrapp, Wolf Parade, His Name is Alive, Piano Magic, Belle and Sebastian, The Knife, Interpol, Brakes Brakes Brakes, Angels of Light, Arcade Fire, Cat Power, Sixteen Horsepower (Secret South), so many more.... |
Favorite books | Jakob von Gunten and anything by Robert Walser that has been published.....Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon), will add more later, this list could be very long. |