Directed by Julio Grinblatt, Liliana Porter and Man with Axe: Fragments of Conversation with Julio Grinblatt on the Work 'Man with Axe' and Other Brief Situations, 2018, features the Argentine artist Liliana Porter discussing her installation, El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves (Man with Axe and Other Brief Situations), 2014–2017. Porter’s installation was exhibited in 2017 at the 57th Venice Biennale and was subsequently acquired by the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

270 is a series of short films created to preserve and amplify the rich contributions of Latin American artists. Each film is one artist’s homage to another, resulting in an intimate portrait of a single living artist whose work has shaped engagement with contemporary art.

The series title, 270, alludes to the concise length of the films, varying at brief vignettes of around 270 seconds or four and a half minutes. The resulting films capture facets of each artist’s life and creative journey, shining a light on the networks that have supported artistic production and celebrating the subjects’ contributions to our shared cultural histories.

The 270 film series was produced with creative direction from artist Julio Grinblatt and supported by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York.

Directed by Julio Grinblatt
Featuring Liliana Porter
Edited by Dahlia Fischbein
Sound design by Manuel Pinto
Translation by Jane Brodie

Thanks to Liliana Porter, Jorge M. Pérez, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Tobias Ostrander and the curatorial team at PAMM, Ana Tiscornia, Alexander Alberro, Bibi Calderaro, Inés Katzenstein, and Iair Rosenkranz, Guillermo Stein, Nina Grinblatt, Nicolás Guagnini

Photos of the installation courtesy Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

© Institute for the Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA)