Event
An Evening With Gina Telaroli
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 7:30 PM / 10:00 PM
** ONE NIGHT ONLY! **
Filmmaker Gina Telaroli will be at Spectacle on Thursday, November 5th for rare back-to-back screenings of her 2014 feature HERE'S TO THE FUTURE!, preempted her 2011 feature TRAVELING LIGHT and her 2014 short SILK TATTERS, on November 5th. (Ticket sales are separate for each screening.)
7:30 PM -
TRAVELING LIGHT / SILK TATTERS
dir. Gina Telaroli, 2011/2014
An Amtrak train pulls out of Penn Station in New York City on a cold, sunny February morning. The train moves forward as the landscape changes the East Coast giving way to the Midwest. Passengers fill their roles, the snow begins to fall and the next train station is announced, all while the light continues shifting, bouncing, swelling and slouching into eventual darkness.
"Ten properties of a subject, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness."
- Robert Bresson
"They began very promptly, these tender, fluttering sensations; they began with the sight of the beautiful English landscape, whose dark richness was quickened and brightened by the season; with the carpeted fields and flowering hedge-rows, as she looked at them from the window of the train; with the spires of the rural churches, peeping above the rook-haunted tree-tops; with the oak-studded parks, the ancient homes, the cloudy light"
- from Henry James' "An International Episode"
made with Meerkat Media and the Goddamn Cobras
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10:00 PM
HERE'S TO THE FUTURE!
dir. Gina Telaroli, 2014
Telaroli's follow-up to the acclaimed TRAVELING LIGHT (2011) again combines fictional, documentary, and experimental filmmaking modes to create a beguiling group portrait of people coming together for a daylong journey. After recording the hushed quiet of an Amtrak train, HERE'S TO THE FUTURE! finds Telaroli turning her attention to a much wilder, more hectic environment: a bustling film set.
On a late-summer Sunday in 2011, a female director (Telaroli herself) gathers a team of filmmakers, writers, musicians, artists, critics, and friends in an apartment to recreate a scene from Michael Curtiz's Depression-era drama THE CABIN IN THE COTTON. Over plates of pasta and glasses of red wine, a round robin of non-professional actors take turns performing the same scene, again and again, in different permutations. With a freedom influenced by pre-Code Hollywood, cameras, phones, and laptops are scattered around the set at almost every possible angle, documenting the action both in front of and behind the camera as it unfolds, from rehearsals to equipment adjustments to the banter between takes. An intimate, playful, and spontaneous look into the collaborative cinematic process emerges, a snapshot of the filmmaker's perennial struggle to capture fleeting moments before the day (and light) slip away.
HERE'S TO THE FUTURE! is a hybrid work that blurs several lines between reality and fiction, between a movie and its "making of," between Old Hollywood and present-day independent cinema, between film criticism and filmmaking, between structuralist rigor and a loose hangout vibe inspired by Howard Hawks's HATARI! to create something strange and new.
"Though HERE'S TO THE FUTURE! leaves the "finished" product an open question, it suggests that by allowing greater transparency with our methods, we may find new ways to discover that movies really are about (and made by) real people. Telaroli has crafted the most generous kind of experiment: it doesn't know what comes next, but it reveres collaboration and feedback on a micro level, and shares the joy of that process." - Micah Gottlieb, BlackBook
"Transition, in this case, may be a bit of a misnomer: here, conventional distinctions between narrative and documentary are washed away. What remains is the armature of filmmaking itself, a deeply collaborative process reliant on the legwork of its individual participants." - Caroline Golum, The L Magazine
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LocationSpectacle (View)
124 S 3rd St
Brooklyn, NY 11211
United States
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