Ten years in the making, Ben Shapiro's docu on celebrated photog Gregory Crewdson concentrates on his magnum opus, the collection of huge prints known as "Beneath the Roses." Producer-director ...

Each series of the trilogy represents essential stages in Crewdson’s artistic journey ... to existential and expansive visions of the world, to reflections on deep respect and admiration for ...

Crewdson acknowledges that many of the themes he’s returned to repeatedly, including the sense of being both “present yet absent,” are reflections of himself. His desire for a moment of ...

The expressions of surprise, the mood of disquieting expectation, the well-placed lights: all devices that he, Gregory Crewdson ... all lead to blind alleys, desolate squares, to places opening ...

Director Ben Shapiro followed artist Gregory Crewdson for a decade, documenting how the photographer creates his eerie work. In the resulting film, Crewdson seems more enigmatic than the elaborate ...