NEW DATE: Sun Feb 21, 7:30pm.
$8, $6 mbrs, stus. Adv tix sug.
Due to snow, this event has been moved to Sun Feb 21 at 7:30pm
Documentaries by Michael Kimball & Luca Dipierro
Baltimore novelist and postcard biographer Michael Kimball goes cinematic with Luca Dipierro to create two innovative documentaries. In I Will Smash You, twenty people tell a personal story about an object and then destroy It. The result is often funny and sometimes uncomfortable. 60 Writers/60 Places (premiering tonight) meets 60 writers reading their work in 60 places—Blake Butler on a subway, Deb Olin Unferth in a laundromat, Jamie Gaughran-Perez in a salon, Tita Chico in a dressing room, Will Eno in a park, Tao Lin next to a hot dog cart, Rick Moody on a baseball field, and Rupert Wondolowski at a diner.
Luca Dipierro is a writer, filmmaker and visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY.
The Believer calls Michael Kimball’s third novel, DEAR EVERYBODY, “a curatorial masterpiece.” He is also responsible for the ongoing art project—Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard).
More on 60 Writers/60 Places
60 Writers/60 Places begins with the idea of the tableaux vivant, a living picture where the camera never moves. But instead of silently holding their poses, the writers read a short excerpt of their work—another kind of framing that linguistically echoes the frame of the tableaux vivant. The film uses ideas from painting, stage performance, early photography, contemporary photo compositing, and old postcards.
There is an interaction between each writer, their writing, and the place in which they read. Besides the internal structure of each shot, there is an external architecture that accumulates between the 60 places. The writer and the writing go on no matter what is going on around them.
Featuring these writers:
Rupert Wondolowski
Tita Chico
Blaster Al Ackerman
Jamie Gaughan-Perez
Jen Michalski
Laura Wexler
Joseph Young
Jessica Anya Blau
Chris Toll
Bonnie Jones
Rahne Alexander
Piotr Gwiazda
Leslie F. Miller
Zita Nunes
Justin Sirois
Josh Weil
Lauren Bender
Danielle McClammy
Adam Robinson
Michael Kimball
Ron Tanner
Maud Casey
Colby Green
Kandice Chuh
Carla Peterson
Felix Jacob
Kate Blackwell
Leni Zumas
Leigh Newman
Luca Dipierro
FREE PARKING ('til the snow melts)! M&T Bank lot, 3401 Eastern Avenue, entrance on Highland Ave. Three blocks east of The Patterson, right on Highland, left into lot.
