Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film

Richard Linklater; Ethan Hawke; Patricia Arquette; Ellar Coltrane; Lorelei Linklater; Cathleen Sutherland; Matt Lankes

ISBN 10: 1477305416 / ISBN 13: 9781477305416

Published by Boyhood, Inc. and IFC Productions, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film
• Publisher: Boyhood, Inc. and IFC Productions
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477305416
• ISBN 13: 9781477305416
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In 2002, director Richard Linklater and a crew began filming the “Untitled 12-Year Project.” He cast four actors (Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, and Lorelei Linklater) in the role of a family and filmed them each year over the next dozen years. Supported by IFC Productions, Linklater, cast, and crew began the commitment of a lifetime that became the film, Boyhood. Seen through the eyes of a young boy in Texas, Boyhood unfolds as the characters—and actors—age and evolve, the boy growing from a soft-faced child into a young man on the brink of his adult life, finding himself as an artist.

Photographer Matt Lankes captured the progression of the film and the actors through the lens of a 4x5 camera, creating a series of arresting portraits and behind-the-scenes photographs. His work documents Linklater’s unprecedented narrative that used the real-life passage of years as a key element to the storytelling.

Just as Boyhood the film calls forth memories of childhood and lures one into a place of self-reflection, Boyhood: Twelve Years on Film presents an honest collection of faces, placed side-by-side, that chronicles the passage of time as the camera connects with the cast and crew on an intimate level. Revealing, personal recollections by the actors and filmmakers accompany the photographs.

About the Author

Matt Lankes is a professional photographer whose clients include Livestrong, HBO, Fox Searchlight, Texas Monthly, Interview, Time Inc., Newsweek, GSD&M, Austin Monthly, Lee Jeans, Random House, Warner Brothers, Cowboys and Indians, Chevrolet, and Pentagram Design. His work is currently in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University.