August 18, 2022​

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El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo, 2021)

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Time: 8:00pm

Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Address: 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057

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Los Angeles premiere!

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Expanding on the hybrid narrative of his remarkable debut Dark Skull (Locarno in Los Angeles 2017), Kiro Russo has mounted a monumental, gently mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs. Set in the alternately harsh and beautiful terrain of La Paz, Bolivia and its surrounding rural areas, El Gran Movimiento follows a young miner as he looks for work alongside his friends, even as he begins to descend into a mysterious sickness. With its marvelous long-lens zoom work and increasingly dynamic, rhythmic editing, Russo’s film is a hypnotic journey into a psychological space that touches upon the supernatural. Official Selection: Venice, San Sebastian, NYFF, Vienna.

 

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A thoroughly idiosyncratic and elliptical approach to the city symphony.

Ryan Swen, InReviewOnline

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A work both fascinating in its suggestions and beautiful in its compositions.

Soham Gadre, The Film Stage

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Luminous... akin to experiencing a kind seance, a communing with an otherworldly realm.

Leonardo Goi, MUBI Notebook

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[A] captivating cinematic opus... Russo imposes brilliant cinematographic personality and [a] highly original gift for conveying atmosphere.

Fabian Lemercier, Cineuropa

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Russo’s particular spin on hybridity grants his nonprofessional actors the freedom to inhabit both real and imaginary realms, subject and character becoming synonymous. 

Jay Kuehner, Cinema Scope

 

September 6, 2022​

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The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose, 2021)

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Time: 8:00pm

Location: 2220 Arts + Archives

Address: 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057

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Los Angeles premiere! Co-presented by MUBI.

Director Ricky D'Ambrose in person!

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A multigenerational family saga in extreme miniature, the new feature from singular American independent director Ricky D’Ambrose (Notes on an Appearance) is his most refined, emotionally resonant work yet. Slicing across decades with impressionistic precision, The Cathedral tells the formally economical yet engrossing story of the Damrosch family, whose quiet rise and fall is seen through the eyes of its youngest member, Jesse, born in the late 1980s. Using photographs and archival news footage to buttress his oblique drama, D’Ambrose shows how a family’s financial and emotional wear and tear can subtly reflect a country’s sociopolitical fortunes and follies. Official Selection: Venice, Sundance, Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films.

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Screening to be followed by a Q&A with Ricky D'Ambrose, moderated by director Tyler Taormina (Ham on Rye, Happer's Comet)

 

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A hybrid unlike any other.

Amy Taubin, Artforum

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A quietly stunning jewel box of a film.

Alissa Wilkinson, Vox

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The Cathedral is a deeply humanist film, but it's also a relentlessly bleak exorcism of a family's intolerances.

Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine

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The viewer is asked to be as observant to details, to furtive gestures and to shades of meaning, as D’Ambrose is in adapting his own family story, making The Cathedral a genuinely radical act.

Robert Koehler, Cinema Scope

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A fervent memory piece, filled with haunting images of Jesse's visions. Amazingly, these scenes don't have the subjective feel of point-of-view shots; rather, they render memory as fact and present inner experience as an objective reality.

Richard Brody, The New Yorker