92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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The Beaver Trilogy
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Saturday Sep 26, 2009 (8–10pm)
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- Price
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$12.00
Part of the series Not Coming to a Theater Near You, presented by the film blog of the same name. Editors Rumsey Taylor, Leo Goldsmith and Jenny Jediny in person to introduce the film.
Trent Harris' The Beaver Trilogy begins with a serendipitous encounter in a random parking lot in Salt Lake city between the filmmaker and a young, exuberant young man obsessed with Olivia Newton-John. Their exchange is repeated three times during the course of the film, first in nonfiction footage shot in 1979, then in two reenactments (starring Sean Penn and Crispin Glover, respectively) that expand, clarify, or distort the events of the first installment. The result is a uniquely bizarre and yet astonishing work that demonstrates the very nature of cinema as a process of rehearsal, performance and reiteration.
Director: Trent Harris. 83 mins. 2000.
This is the first in a series of monthly screenings curated by the editors of Not Coming to a Theater Near You, an online publication that assumes a bias toward older, foreign and sometimes unknown films that merit a second look.
