Screening with Motion Poems short films Creased Map of the Underworld, April 12, and I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, April 15.
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago, only this time she will take the role of the older woman. Seeking refuge in Sils Maria, a remote region of the Alps, to rehearse the play, she takes stock in her career and her unknown future with her young assistant. Director Olivier Assayas takes pleasure in being coy by with his two stars—Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart—as he knowingly layers references to their own lives and roller coaster careers.
SCREENING WITH:
Creased Map of the Underworld
Motion Poems
Country: USA | Language: English | Runtime: 4 min
Director(s): Bryan Michurski
Nothing is so beautiful as death, thinks Death. Bryan Michurski bundles Kim Addonizio's lovely river in which the names are carefully entered" in yarn and wool and fur and light.
I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast
Motion Poems
Country: USA | Language: English | Runtime: 3 min
Director(s): Dan Sickles
"It looked like a pancake, but it was... the fist of God on a head of wheat, milk, the unborn child of an unsuspecting chicken—all beaten to batter and drizzled into a pan."
"Watch what happens when you eat the sun, the air, the rain in Dan Sickles' adaptation of Melissa Studdard's 'I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.'"
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