dirs. Anuj Malhorta, Cecil de Fátima, Chihiro Ito, Dro Watson, Gloria Chung, Jake Durham, Joie Estrella Horowitz, Paige Taul, Simonas Varvuolis, Violeta Mora, Jeff Preiss, 2021.
Program approximately 99 minutes.THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4 – 7 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY with Jeff Preiss in person!
(This event is $10.)
Film Diary is a festival for experimental non-fiction that captures the personal history and daily experiences of filmmakers and the worlds they encounter. The festival’s name is a tribute to the legendary “film diarist” Jonas Mekas, and aims to expand on the genre of “diary film” and give films like his a place to be shared. The festival’s opening night at Spectacle will feature a diverse selection of short works by filmmakers from around the world including:Violeta Mora’s IMPOSSIBLE ENCONTRAR, a meditation on memory and seeing, shot through the lens of a toy telescope.THE PROMISE and 10:28:30 by Paige Taul, a pair of short personal documentaries that use home video and intimate film footage to form a deeply honest exploration of familial relationships, identity, and fate.
GREEN TURNS BROWN, Joie Estrella Horwitz’s beautiful Super-8 eulogy to the artist Luchita Hurtado, whose work was discovered at the age of 97 in a storage unit in San Bernardino, California.