Burning Camera: Fernell Franco's Prostitutes

Fernell Franco worked as reporter and advertising agent. Throughout his career his professional duties crisscrossed constantly with brilliant results. The series Prostitutes is the starting point of an exhibition that encompasses his analysis of urban life as well as his experimental take on temporal processes. On view until July 4 as part of Photo España 2011 at the Bellas Artes De Madrid. www.bellasartesdemadrid.com

Openings: JAMES FRANCO / GUS VAN SANT "Unfinished"

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"Unfinished" features two films, Endless Idaho and My Own Private River, which are collaborations between Gus Van Sant and James Franco. After casting Franco in the award-winning film Milk (2008), Van Sant showed him the dailies and other footage that he had shot many years before for My Own Private Idaho (1991), which starred River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as street hustlers in Portland, Oregon. Much of this material did not make it into the final cut, and so Franco decided to fashion it into two new films, riffing off the original title. The opening is February 26th at the Gagosian in Beverly Hills and runs till April 9. www.gagosian.com