Currently based in Paris and New York, Diana Michener–who was born in 1940, studied with Lisette Model at The New School in New York and with Ansel Adams at Yosemite and frequently collaborates with her own sweetheart, Jim Dine–has said of Sweethearts, “This work in another form was shown at The New York Film Festival in 1982. It still remains, for me, a study in indecision. The Sweethearts are emblematic of that thing that can exist between couples, when one can not assume the persona of the other.” Taking the form of a flipbook, Sweethearts (starring Wallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg) is a series of film stills depicting those overlooked, banal and dramatic moments that take place in a couple’s domestic space. Sometimes quiet, sometimes animated, the subjects are pictured together in an intimate exploration of the vagaries of love and life.