Acclaimed American photographer Tina Barney is best known for her stunning large-scale color photographs of friends and family in Long Island, New York City, and New England that expose the emotional and psychological currents coursing just beneath the surfaces of perfect trappings and banal gestures.

I’ve collaborated with Tina on a number of projects, and was excited to co-organize this event with the Museum of Moving Image that focused on a series of short films the artist has made over the course of her career—one of which inspired Barney’s The Library artist’s project for Esopus 25. A selection of these rarely seen films, along with Social Studies, a 2005 documentary about Barney by Jaci Judelson, were screened at the event. Tina was in attendance and participated in a post-screening conversation with Judelson, which I had the pleasure of moderating. The event was followed by a book signing at the museum’s bookstore.