Full
Exposure
This
selection of new documentaries is a rare chance to peer into
the lives of those on the fringes of history. Theirs are
the stories behind the story; the images that only a skillful
director can capture, exposed and ready to be discovered.
Wednesday,
February 3 at 7pm
Paradise
dir.
Michael Almereyda, US, 2009, video, 82 mins
Director
Michael Almereyda in person
 Paradise
is an astonishingly
beautiful and poignant sketchbook, a collection of fragmentary
episodes captured during ten years of travels. It is a gathering
up of intimately shared moments with friends and strangers,
rendered with a sense of mystery, wonderment, and sly humor.
Almereyda has noted that over time, Paradise became
less a self-portrait and more of a panoramic group portrait
of children and their adult counterparts.
A
description of the world we inherit, fumble around in, and grow
into. Shot in roughly two dozen cities in nine different countries,
episodes are linked, the director writes, by the idea that
life is made up of brief paradisiacal moments
moments routinely taken
for granted, and always slipping away.
MoMA
Free admission members
above Internationalist level; $5 Internationalists;
$6 students + seniors;
$8 general admission. In advance at TICKETWEB
or 1/2 hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater Box Office.
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