Event

Nana

Visiting Artists

Jan 11 - Jan 17, 2013

(Valerie Massadian, France, 2011, 35mm, 68 min)

Director in attendance opening weekend!

Friday, Jan 11 at 07:00PM
Friday, Jan 11 at 09:00PM
Saturday, Jan 12 at 07:00PM
Saturday, Jan 12 at 09:00PM
Sunday, Jan 13 at 07:00PM
Sunday, Jan 13 at 09:00PM
Monday, Jan 14 at 07:00PM
Monday, Jan 14 at 09:00PM
Tuesday, Jan 15 at 07:00PM
Tuesday, Jan 15 at 09:00PM
Wednesday, Jan 16 at 07:00PM
Wednesday, Jan 16 at 09:00PM
Thursday, Jan 17 at 07:00PM
Thursday, Jan 17 at 09:00PM

Nan Goldin collaborator Valerie Massadian's directorial debut stars a four year old. "There's not one word, one gesturenothingthat I imposed on her. We played," she told Craig Hubert of Interview Magazine. Toddler actor Kelyna Lecomte plays Nana, a girl abandoned by her mother on the outskirts of her grandfather's pig farm. Filmed with a voyeuristic distance, Nana unfolds in the allowed space as the character's isolation endows her own developing independence. Audiences are given an innocently intimate, contemplative glimpse of the world as Nana views it. Played with extraordinary composure, the character of Nana is a quiet delight to watch. Winner of the Best First Film prize at the Locarno Film Festival, this is a sweet, life-affirming faux-fairytale, simultaneously enchanting and elegiac.