Jeff Embrace Your Past (2014)

In 1992 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art put on the first major museum retrospective of the work of Jeff Koons who at a boyish 37 was already an artworld sensation His series Made in Heaven a set of photorealist paintings depicting himself and his wife Ilona Stallera famous porn starin various acrobatic coital poses had premiered the past year to enormous controversy and his collected body of work with its heavy use of readymades and its assemblyline style production methods was already inspiring a question that continues to stoke debate is Koons a canny media critic or a cynical marketreader trading in repurposed junk Roger Teichs compelling keeneyed short documentary filmed at and around the exhibit leaves that question tantalizingly open The result is a multisided portrait of a man whose work continues to raise difficult probing questions about the role of the artist in society