dir. Jim Cummings
2018, USA, 91:34 mins, Fiction
Thunder Road follows a southern Police Officer (Jim Cummings) on his journey to raise his young daughter as a love letter to his late Mom. Heart-warming and hilarious, Jim struggles to cope with everyday life.
FEATURE NARRATIVE
(74min / WC Premiere)
dir. Milena Pastreich
2019, USA, 81:00, Nonfiction
*Filmmaker in Attendance
The International Sign for Choking depicts the day-to-day encounters of Josh, a would-be expatriate from the US living in Buenos Aires for the second time. While his primary purpose seems to be the production of a vaguely defined video project, he devotes more of his time to tracking down a mysteriously absent ex-girlfriend. Frustrated by continual failure, Josh finds himself the perpetrator of a series of small yet uncharacteristic acts of deceit that ultimately place him in a low-key love triangle alongside Anna, his fellow N. American housemate, and Roger, a local musician.
Abandoned Generations (dir. Linda Fenstermaker) A portrait of farmland in the Pacific Northwest, Abandoned Generations explores relationships with land and time in different generations. Told through the perspective of a female farmer in the 1940s, the film questions the distance that modern society has from the earth and how that relationship informs daily life. Balada…
Website: http://www.banksyfilm.com/ “An exhilarating hall-of-mirrors look at what happens when global art fame turns anonymous, artists become objects, fans turn into artists, and the whole what’s-sincere-and-what’s-a-sham spectacle is more fun than art was ever supposed to be.” – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly [From the Sundance Film Festival] Billed as “the world’s first street art…
dir. Erik Bloomquist 2018, USA, 95 mins, Fiction