Join us for a screening of Philip Guston: A Life Lived, directed by Michael Blackwood. Captured in the final years of Guston’s life, the documentary brims with reflections on painting, the creative process, and his journey as a lifelong artist. Featuring interviews filmed shortly before his sudden passing, the film offers a candid portrait of Guston’s charm, clarity, and enduring curiosity.

To accompany the screening, we invite you to read Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot. All attendees will receive a specially designed booklet of “Quartet no. 4” to take home.

The evening will also include a short pre-screening conversation about Guston’s career and a post-film discussion on the documentary, the reading, and the ways art can become something larger than its maker—an offering, unfinished and ongoing.

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Inspired by the spirit of publicly accessible educational programming from the 80s and 90s, Educational Television is a Problem Library project that archives short films, documentaries, and television programs we find valuable. Our aim is to reanimate television as a medium for education, provocation, and inspiration—and to celebrate curiosity in the mechanisms, mystery, and magic of the world.

Educational Television currently exists as a website streaming two channels 24/7. It invites a “slow viewing” approach by removing the ability to skip or pause. At our in-person screenings, we pair one or two films from the collection with a complementary (or contradictory) reading to expand our scope of inquiry, conversation, and reflection.

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