AMERICA NOW!
The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. - Charles Francis Adams.
The “America Now!” special program pulls together a series of screenings from an international call to filmmakers that are speaking to the American condition. America is at the nexus of police brutality, the rise of a new civil rights movement in the protests of Black Lives Matter, deep divisions on the issue of immigration, gun control, terrorism and more, all in a charged election cycle. Covering a range of subjects and genres, the films speak to these issues using innovative techniques, subversive methodologies and direct commentary.
Curator: E.G. Bailey, Sha Cage in collaboration with Tampere Film Festival
STOP, Reinaldo Marcus Green, fiction, USA, 2014, 10"
POSTERA, Zak Cedarholm & The Poet Azeem, experimental narrative, USA, 2016, 18"
TWO CITIES, Darius Clark Monroe, biography / documentary, USA, 2015, 13"
DIRT, Darius Clark Monroe, fiction, USA, 2016, 7"
THE LOVERS, Johnny Vong, fiction, USA, 2015, 6"
BORDERLAND, Valerie Schenkman, fiction, USA, 2015, 7"
AMERICAN DREAMER, Thomas Haley, documentary, France, 2013, 32"
Films will be screened in the original language with Latvian subtitles.
More info: http://2annas.lv/en/focus/america-now/