On Wednesday, January 4^th at 6 pm, the Ukiah Library is hosting a screening of Iris, a documentary film by Albert Maysles.

“The film is the result of collaboration among cultural royalty. Iris, a born and bred New Yorker, is one of the world’s best-known fashion and design innovators and educators, while The New York Times called Albert “the dean of documentary filmmakers.”

Filmmaker and subject were also united by advancing age. Iris, born in Queens in 1921, worked for Women’s Wear Daily before opening her own interior design business. She became an international sensation after a 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit of her work took the fashion and design world by storm. She would later quip that the show had made her a “geriatric starlet.”

Albert was born in 1926 and made his first documentary, Psychiatry in Russia, in 1955. He went on to captivate the world S Salesman, Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens, part of a body of work composed of more than 40 films. He died on March 5, 2015, at age 88.” (PBS.org)