Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky

Photographer

Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky are collaborative artists working at the intersection of moving and still imagery. Their works have been exhibited at the Berlin, Sundance, Toronto, Locarno and Rotterdam film festivals, The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, Le Musée de la Civilisation, ICA London, The Museum of the Moving Image and Lincoln Center. In 2012, they were nominated for a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director; in 2014, they held a fellowship at The MacDowell Colony; and in 2016, they held a fellowship at Yaddo. Their feature debut, Francine, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, was called "a small gem of bleak neorealist portraiture" by The New York Times and was selected as a New York Times Critics' Pick. Their film, The Patron Saints, was called “a documentary shot with intimacy and great respect” by Artforum. Cassidy & Shatzky’s photographic work has been featured in GUP Magazine, Der Greif, It’s Nice That, and FlakPhoto, among others. In 2015, the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) invited them to guest curate "A Photographer's Eye: Photography & The Poetic Documentary", a special program about the intersection of photography and documentary film, which was showcased at La Cinémathèque Québécoise. Cassidy & Shatzky both hold an MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in NYC.