CATHY &
HARRY
A revealing and humorous double portrait of two artists...
Cathy & Harry (Trailer)
SYNOPSIS
A revealing and humorous double portrait of Catherine Murphy and Harry Roseman whose work is in collections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Metropolitan Transit Authority. "Cathy & Harry" documents how their lives revolve in joyous, dizzying intensity around work, food, friends, and each other.
Both Cathy and Harry are well-known artists with works in major museums and private collections. “Cathy & Harry” demystifies that, letting us get a feel for the day-to-day work of trying to make something of value. As well as important contemporary artists, Cathy and Harry become people – and people you’d probably like to have dinner with.
PRAISE FOR Cathy & Harry
What a beautiful film! It has a distinctive rhythm and flow. It’s often stunning to look at and full of intelligence, humor and affection, and a strange pathos. The pathos seems to have something to do with their carrying deep unspoken histories while being so much creatures of survival. … We always feel in them and their work a persistence of doubt, the presence of something nameless that you allow to remain unspoken.
Michael Brenson, critic and author of "David Smith"
That two artists would be living together and trying to do their work is not so unusual. But “Cathy and Harry” (not incidentally made by two other artists) pulls off what any great film on such a subject does — gets us into those lives so touchingly and incisively that we can’t help but turn the questions they wrestle with on ourselves. It doesn’t hurt that their depicted opus is wonderful, that they’re sharp and funny and completely candid as they struggle to separate the essential from the noise.
Ralph Arlyck, director of "I Like It Here"
This is a beautiful film about artists and art making. I love getting such extraordinarily intelligent and sensitive people to speak to each other and us in the vernacular of their work: no pretense, no jargon, but natural framing of the issues they're contending with. Through the course of the film one both wonders how they can spend so much time together—and how could they not, as their endless dialogue is their life blood, nourishment and what keeps them moving forward.
Jon Landau, author, critic and art collector