Fall 2016
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Festival Beat: Toronto, Camden and Fantastic Fest
Toronto International Film Festival By Scott Macaulay Following 2013’s The Flag, Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker returned to the Toronto International Film Festival this year with an entirely different meditation on national identity, Karl Marx City. Here Epperlein, who emigrated to the States following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, travels back to her East German homeland, attempting to uncover the reason for her father’s suicide in 1999. Evidence he may have been a Stasi informant deepens the urgency of her journey, with a visit to Stasi archives revealing thousands of hours of footage, somewhere in which may be the clue […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 20, 2016 -
Super 8: Randomly Accessed Memories
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry Running from Oct. 25 to Jan. 29 at the Met Breuer — the Metropolitan’s new space for contemporary art, in the building formerly occupied by the Whitney — this is the largest museum exhibition to date of Kerry James Marshall. Marshall, whose work since the early ’80s has encompassed painting and sculpture, has returned repeatedly to questions of African-American representation and identity. This exhibition will predominantly focus on his paintings (72 in all) and is complemented by a sidebar exhibition curated by Marshall from the Met’s holdings rounding up his many and varied influences. Belle Époque in Upper Volta […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 20, 2016
