Rolex Testimonee Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman with an Oscar for directing. She shares about transferring of knowledge and her time with mentor Lawrence Weiner.
The first and only woman ever with an Oscar for directing, Kathryn Bigelow found that when her mentor Lawrence Weiner challenged and frustrated her, he effectively shaped her creative processKathryn Bigelow is the first — and still only — woman to ever win the Academy Award for Best Director.
Long before she studied under Lawrence Weiner at Columbia, the pair had began collaborating in the early 1970s, often appearing in or editing his moving-image works and contributing to scripts. It is here that she honed her signature use of audio to dissect images, experimentation with the inherent properties of film and video, to create an engagement with the active viewer, that we see replicated in her seminal works like The Set-Up, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty and most recently, Detroit.
Indeed, before she even enrolled for graduate studies in film, Weiner was Bigelow’s official mentor for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in New York City, and as a result, the two would become close and still remain so today, having made several films together. Bigelow looks fondly on her time working and learning under Weiner, “It is really a process of transferring information, transferring knowledge, a way of thinking, and it’s unconscious.” An assessment that her mentor agrees with, “Everybody worked with everybody,” He said. “You’re talking about a context that for the past 25 years has not existed, that a person coming in to New York City could find themselves with older artists and somehow or another survive without the grinding and all that.
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