Christie’s
Producer & Director
As an in-house producer on the Content Team at Christie’s, Eloise told award-winning stories about art and artists. Highlights include:
Studio Visit with Artist Khari Turner
Khari’s work uses water sourced from locations significant to Black Americans and members of the African diaspora. After filming a visit with him at his studio in Bushwick, Eloise and the crew hopped in a cab and filmed him collecting samples from New York Harbor using a GoPro.
Co-developed with and edited by Azizi Rodney
2021
Studio Visit with Dread Scott
In anticipation of his landmark art piece, “White Male for Sale,” the crew visited Dread Scott at his studio in Brooklyn to interview him about his artistic practice and philosophy. This piece combines the footage with archival media from over three decades of Dread Scott’s career.
Edited by Azizi Rodney
2021
Journey Through 21st Century Existential Crisis - Studio Visit With the Creators of ‘Arcadia’
The three artists collaborating on this NFT artwork live in three different countries: RAC lives in the United States, Andres Reisinger lives in Spain, and Arch Hades lives in London.
Production involved three parallel shoots with different production crews in all three countries. Eloise conducted interviews with each artist via Zoom (on two occasions, getting up at 4am to accommodate the time zone differences!)
Edited by Azizi Rodney
2021
Studio Visit with Artist Ronald Jackson
With this piece, our challenge was to acknowledge and honor the complicated and frequently harrowing stories Ronald Jackson’s work draws upon, without also sensationalizing or commodifying that history at the same time.
Taking the straight-on gaze of his subjects as a conceptual starting point, we opted for a slow approach to this piece and match cut images of his work with portraits of the artist himself in various settings, and also incorporated archival media of his family as well as his time serving in the military.
Edited by Azizi Rodney, with whom I collaborated on the creative development and execution of this piece.
2021
FEWOCiOUS on His Life in Art and NFTs
Victor (a.k.a. FEWOCiOUS)’s body of work draws on his childhood and adolescence and his coming to terms with his trans identity.
To echo the theme of “self creation,” Eloise asked Victor to draw on his tablet while projecting the artwork live across his body, and combined the resulting footage with archival media and a sit down interview.
Edited by Abe Halpert
2021
The Rosenberg Collection
Bringing Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg’s unparalleled collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula to life with animation.
Animated by Fgreat Studio.
2021
Studio Visit with Artist Cary Fagan
Created during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, this piece was produced entirely remotely, with the artist filming himself in his Houston apartment while speaking with Eloise on Zoom.
Eloise and Azizi Rodney leaned into the informal quality of the footage and collaged it together with archival media provided by Fagan, resulting in a dreamy exploration of the artist’s body of work.
This piece was nominated for a 2021 Webby Award in Video (Unscripted).
2020
Studio Visit with Artist Accra Shepp
In March 2020, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Accra Shepp picked up a camera and photographed essential workers on the front lines at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. Later that summer, he documented Black Lives Matter protesters during the George Floyd demonstrations.
The crew visited Accra’s home studio, and joined him on a walk through his neighborhood as he shared his process and philosophy.
Edited by Jay Slot
2020
Matthew Wong's Shangri-La
A conversation with Isabella Lauria of the Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art department about a unique painting by Matthew Wong.
Edited by Azizi Rodney
2020
Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'MP' Visits His Eponymous Portrait After 35 Years
Michael Patterson, a.k.a. MP, the subject of Basquiat’s eponymous portrait, came to NYC in order to visit the painting in person in Christie’s Rockefeller galleries.
The crew filmed MP as he saw the painting for the first time in decades, and asked him questions about his friendship with Basquiat in the 80’s.
This piece was the 2021 Gold Telly Winner in Branded Content: Documentary: Individual.
Edited by Azizi Rodney
2020
Wayne Thiebaud’s 100th Birthday
In honor of Thiebaud’s centennial birthday, the artist spoke with Crown Point Press founder Kathan Brown about his collaboration with the San Francisco-based printmaking studio spanning nearly 60 years.
Due to COVID-19, it was unsafe for the two friends to meet in person, so Eloise organized a remote conversation between the two of them and combined the footage with decades old archival media of the two working together at CPP.
This video won the 2021 Silver Telly for Branded Content: Remote Production.
Edited by Azizi Rodney
2020
Hurting the Word Radio
Responding to “Hurting the Word Radio II” by Ed Ruscha (1964), Eloise sourced a pile of vintage radios and filmed her crew smashing them in slow motion.
Edited by Jay Slot
2019
Graphicstudio: America’s Cutting-edge Printing Workshop
A portrait of the storied Tampa printmaking atelier exploring their fine craftsmanship and commitment to the vision of their visiting contemporary artists.
Edited by Jay Slot
2019