Adam Beck

The Last Salonnier

In this documentary profile, Johnston invites the audience to step behind the "crushed velvet curtain" of Bruce Bailey’s life as an investment banker, lawyer, farmer and patron. The enthusiastic collector, who has worked with artists such as Marina Abramovic and Kent Monkman, is one of a few notable individuals who still host traditional art salons; a form of egalitarian lab for the breeding of ideas made popular in seventeenth-century France, where literary luminaries, artists and thinkers gathered to discuss philosophy, politics, art and other matters of the day.

A Kid From Somewhere

A Kid From Somewhere captures the ambition of a new generation of kids seeking to find their voice, and careers, through their art. An Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival Next Wave Programme.