Hot Docs Talks 1: The Long Haul
Sun, Apr 20 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
2 Sussex Avenue
The “longitudinal” documentary, films which follow their subjects and stories over years, is an increasingly rare form. In this discussion guest filmmakers who have made such works discuss what it takes to stay with the story, and tell it in ninety minutes.
Moderator
Shannon Abel, Senior International Programmer, Hot Docs
Guests
Jens Hoffman, Director, 20 SECONDS OF JOY
Greg Kohs, Director, SONG SUNG BLUE
Gabriel Rhodes, Director, BEHIND THE GLASS
Nik Sheehan, Director, FLICKER
Presenting Sponsor: Canadian Television Fund
20 SECONDS OF JOY
BASE jumping is the most thrilling - and most deadly - of all extreme sports. Follow 30-year-old Norwegian adrenaline junkie Karina Hollekim as she hurls herself off increasingly towering cliffs to feed her addiction. A breathtaking joyride!
BEHIND THE GLASS
Film projectionists share their passion for celluloid as they strive to preserve their dying art.
FLICKER
A Beat Generation backroom revolutionary, gay icon Brion Gysin dreamt of changing the world by altering thought patterns. He and his hypnotic Dream Machine were profoundly subversive influences on the likes of William S. Burroughs, Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull and Kenneth Anger.
SONG SUNG BLUE
Everybody knows one. The long, strange and ultimately touching story of Lighting & Thunder, a Milwaukee couple who performs tributes to the music of Neil Diamond, is followed with its remarkable vicissitudes and surprising inspiration.
