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Martin Scorsese's RAGING BULL (1980)Sunday, October 4th at 2:30 PM
Featuring a post-film discussion with author David Andre Weiss and New York Times writer Carlo Rotella, book signing reception, and accompanying art exhibition.
$18 Public | $11 Members
With this stunningly visceral portrait of self-destructive machismo, Martin Scorsese created one of the truly great and visionary works of modern cinema. Robert De Niro pours his blood, sweat, and brute physicality into the Oscar-winning role of Jake La Motta, the rising middleweight boxer from the Bronx whose furious ambition propels him to success within the ring but whose unbridled paranoia and jealousy tatter his relationships with everyone in his orbit, including his brother and manager (Joe Pesci) and his wife (Cathy Moriarty). (USA, 1980, 129 mins, R, English | Dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Quiet Lion: Photographs of Leonard Bundu by David Andre Weiss is a long-form black-and-white photographic study of boxer Leonard Bundu, made from unusually close access to the athlete across the public and private spaces of professional boxing. Rather than treating boxing simply as spectacle, the work follows the unstable line between performance and interior life: hotel corridors and rooms, waiting areas and dressing rooms, training rituals, entrances and exits, press events, the ring itself, family encounters, crowds, handlers, trainers, officials and the exhausted intervals when the public image of the fighter briefly falls away.
Across the full body of work, Bundu is not reduced to a heroic sports archetype. He appears as athlete, worker, public figure, father, teammate and solitary individual. The photographs repeatedly move between compressed physical proximity and architectural distance. Wide-angle views place the viewer inside the pressure of the ring and crowd; quieter frames hold him at the far end of a corridor, alone in a room, or suspended in the minutes before and after action. That alternation gives the project its psychological structure.
The result is a portrait of professional boxing as an ecosystem of bodies, ritual, labor, spectacle, vulnerability and care. The title, The Quiet Lion, speaks to the tension at the center of the work: a fighter known through force and public performance whose most revealing moments often occur in stillness, uncertainty, tenderness and concentration.
David Andre Weiss is a photographer and educator based in Florence, Italy, and New York City. He is Digital Media Department Coordinator at The American University of Florence, where he has taught photography and digital media for over 25 years. Weiss began his photographic career in New York, including work as a New York City agency photographer during the Koch and Dinkins administrations. His photograph of the aftermath of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was published in TIME magazine. His professional background also includes work in film production in the United States and Italy, including The Search for One-eye Jimmy, with Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi, and John Turturro. Rooted in documentary practice and long-form observation, his photography explores the intersection of public identity and private experience, with particular attention to people, place, work, and cultural memory. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the South Street Seaport Museum and Museum of the City of New York; Palazzo Vecchio, Villa Romana, Ganzo, F_AIR, and Corridoio Fiorentino in Florence; and in London. His long-term projects include The Quiet Lion: Leonard Bundu in Light and Shadow. His publications encompass photography, Italian craftsmanship and design, cultural history, and the relationship between people and place.
Carlo Rotella is a writer, journalist, scholar, and professor of American Studies, English, and journalism at Boston College. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, his writing explores cities, culture, and how people develop their skills, with a particular focus on boxing. He is the author of Cut Time: An Education at the Fights and Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, and co-editor of The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside. His work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Washington Post Magazine, and has been featured in The Best American Essays and the Library of America’s At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing. His latest book is What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics.
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