Director
Trisha Ziff
Year
2017
Length
93’
Country of Production
México
Production
212 Berlin
Support From
EFICINE
Sabormex
Isuzu
Executive Producers
Simón Bross
Beto Bross
Kevin Iwashima
Victor Leycegui
Paul O’Shea
Jake Scott
Pablo Zimbrón
Associate Producers
Tula Goenka
Barbara R. Palmer
Producers
Trisha Ziff
Isabel del Río
Luis Arenas
Co-Producers
Astro Strudios
Nobody
Artkingdom
The Shed
Cinematography
Felipe Pérez Burchard
Mario García Joya
Editor
Jorge Márquez
Original Music
Jacobo Lieberman
Andrés Sánchez Maher
Sound Design
Pablo Lach
Post-Producer
Santiago Pérez Rocha
Main characters
Joel-Peter Witkin
Jerome Witkin
Sarah Jane Witkin
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Festivals & Awards
- Festival Internacional de Morelia 2021
- Hot Docs 2018. Section: Made in Mexico
- Premios Ariel 2019. Best Original Score
Synopsis
Witkin & Witkin explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter, world famous photographer and Jerome, painter and life long educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art and personal relationship. We meet the women in their lives who gives us access to their worlds, beyond their images. A film about perception and growing older, two artists working in different media who shared a childhood but whose lives took very different directions. We spend time with them in their studios, in both Syracuse and Albuqueque worlds and realities that couldn’t be less alike. Filmed over 4 years Witkin and Witkin documents the changes they experience as time tells its own distinct and disparate narrative.