Southampton - A new documentary about world famous chef Ferran Adrià and his celebrated restaurant El Bulli will have its East End premiere at the Parrish Art Museum on Monday, August 29, at 5:30 p.m. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, "El Bulli: Cooking in Progress," directed by German writer and filmmaker Gereon Wetzel, is a rare inside look at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking.

Before serving its last meal in July 2011, the revolutionary Spanish eatery El Bulli was a Michelin three-star restaurant in Roses, Spain, two hours northeast of Barcelona. Each night, it served a tasting menu of more than 30 courses, prepared by over 40 chefs, to a single seating of up to 50 guests. For its last season before transforming into a culinary academy, over two million requests were received for the 8,000 available seats. Head chef Adrià, who took over the restaurant in 1987 and instituted the tradition of yearly developmental sabbaticals, has become the leading inspiration for avant-garde cuisine worldwide.

New York Magazine called the film a "fascinating and artful look at the meticulous research-and-development process for the experimental dishes at El Bulli." Jeannette Catsoulis of the New York Times hailed it as "a treat for chefs and foodies. Chef Ferran Adrià is a culinary magician who strives to please the eye, nose and emotions as much as the palate." And Jocelyn Noveck of the Associated Press wrote, "For a foodie, the new film about Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant is a bit like an Angelina Jolie movie for a teenage boy….Food lovers can now salivate via celluloid."

"El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" runs 108 minutes and in Catalan with English subtitles. Tickets are $5 for Parrish members, $7 for nonmembers.

On Saturday, August 27, at 2 p.m., A 30-minute video tour of the studios of the 14 artists selected for Artists Choose Artists will have an encore screening in the Parrish Art Museum's concert hall. The showing is free with Museum admission. The premiere screening, scheduled as part of the exhibition's opening reception on Saturday, August 20, sold out well in advance of the opening.

During late July and early August, Associate Curator Andrea Grover and Mark Segal, Director of Adult Programs, visited the studios of the 14 selected artists to interview them and capture their work where it was created. From approximately three hours of video footage. Grover edited the material into the approximately 30-minute Artists Choose Artists video.

The 14 featured artists are Renate Aller, Mary Ellen Bartley, Perry Burns, Terry Elkins, Melinda Hackett, Alice Hope, Nella Khanis, Liliya Lifanova, Fulvio Massi, Kryn Olson, Julie Small-Gamby, Mike Solomon, Ross Watts, and Tad Wiley.

As part of its Opera and Ballet in Cinema series, the Parrish Art Museum will screen Puccini's opera "La Rondine," filmed in 2008 at Teatro la Fenice in Venice, on Sunday, August 28, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $14 for Parrish members, $17 for nonmembers.

The story of "La Rondine" takes place in mid-19th century Paris and follows the love affairs of Magda, a charming but erratic young women who dreams of love. A bittersweet but lighthearted tale of love and loss, "La Rondine" is a favorite among opera fans.

Puccini was commissioned in 1913 by the Vienna Karlstheater to compose a Viennese-style opera. By the time he completed it in 1917, Europe was at war. As a result, the production opened in Monte Carlo instead of Vienna. This production from La Fenice sets the story in 1950s America, complete with nostalgic costumes and glitzy sets.

The blog Opera Chic described this production: "Act I was commedia brillante, a sophisticated comedy from Hollywood's golden era…Act II was a funny send-up, with Jayne Mansfield look-alike super vixens and giant Moulin Rouge pinup girls…and Act III was a minimalist, abstract beach." The program runs 106 minutes, with no intermission.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.