The Films of Arts Letters & Numbers
Arts Letters & Numbers is a non-profit arts, education, and publishing organization dedicated to fostering creative exchanges across a wide range of disciplines including architecture, visual arts, theatre arts, film, music, the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences. Arts Letters & Numbers conducts workshops in educational and cultural institutions worldwide in collaboration with various communities, educational institutions, cultural organizations, museums, theatre companies, artists, writers, actors, activists, policy makers, scientists, musicians, and filmmakers. It operates an ongoing series of educational workshops, concerts, performances and film productions both online through its ‘SunShip’ website and at ‘The Mill’ campus, located in Upstate, NY.
Arts Letters & Numbers is an emergent structure opening spaces within broad human and disciplinary geographies: spaces of participation, of communication, of reciprocity, for people and their works to listen to each other, and to the world. Conceived as a disciplinary chora, ALN is a place of creative urgency and intensity of purpose; a place to create new linkages, new thought processes, new pathways of understanding that embody our best hopes and aspirations; a place where many elements come together to co-construct questions and works of empathy, of ethics, of imagination that include the nuanced fragilities in our shared stories.
The following is a collection of films, directed by David Gersten between 2011 – 2021 that offer a glimpse of the hopes, vision and mission of Arts Letters & Numbers.
Beijing Barn Bibliotheca
2018
Arts Letters & Numbers in collaboration with the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Hinges, Mirrors & Eclipses
2018
Summer Workshop VII
Information Poverty
2017
Arts letters & Numbers in Collaboration with UNICEF
Constitution
Full Film – 17.25 min
2017
Summer Workshop VI
Constitution
Trailer – 4:36 min
2017
Galapagos in C
2015
Arts Letters & Numbers in collaboration with RISD
Circling Towards a Disciplinary Chora
2014
Summer Workshop III
Exquisite Broken Circle: Suddenly a Chora
2013
Summer Workshop II
Exquisite Broken Circle – Brown University Workshop
2012
Arts Letters & Numbers in collaboration with Brown University
Circles: Drawing on Friendship
2012
Summer Workshop I
Aarhus Arc : Three acts
2012
Aarhus School of Architecture
Open Book
2011
Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark