Event

Staunch! A Gay Gardens Celebration V

Staunch! A Gay Gardens Celebration V

(Our 5th annual weekend-long meditation on the legacy of Albert and David Maysles' seminal cinema verite documentary Grey Gardens. This year we kick off Pride by exploring the classic through a queer lens and celebrating its long standing gay cult following.)

Curated by Ilona Brand

Sunday, June 9th, 7:30pm

Tarnation
Jonathan Caouette, 2004, 100 min.

In the making since the director was 11-years-old and completed on a reported budget of about 200 dollars, Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation is an experimental and self-reflective mix of documentary and fiction. Bringing together a collection of home movies, family photos, answering machine messages, reenactments and Caouette's video diary, the film attempts to delve into the filmmaker's experiences growing up queer with a schizophrenic mother. Jonathan also directed his third film, the critically acclaimed Walk Away Renée in 2011. A follow up of sorts to Tarnation, Walk Away Renée documents Caouette's cross-country journey with his mother, Renée Leblanc, to an assisted living facility close to Caouette's home, necessitating a move from Houston to New York.

Q&A with dir. Jonathan Caouette.