Joe Swanberg's Full Moon Trilogy

Joe Swanberg's Full Moon Trilogy

JANUARY 9-11, MONDAY–WEDNESDAY AT 8PM

Director In Attendance!

Join us for the first series in what will be a yearlong tribute to the trilogy!
 

American filmmaker Joe Swanberg’s Full Moon Trilogy consists of films that are all autobiographical, based on experiences the prolific director and his filmmaking contemporaries had making so-called "mumblecore" films. 

The films are often self-critical examinations of accusations pointed at this particular artistic community, that it was lazy, sloppy, narcissistic, predatory, dull…the list goes on.

But Swanberg also enters new aesthetic territory with these films, experimenting with stationary long takes, shooting with two cameras and shooting in just one location. All three films take place on and around film sets and all of them directly address the complications that arise when life and work are blurred, as they often are with independent films.

 

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Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences 
Support for the project provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts

 

 

Art History

Jan 09, 2012

(Joe Swanberg, 2011, USA, Blu-ray, 74 min)

Mumblecore director Joe Swanberg’s film Art History is a backstage-drama surrounding a sexually explicit film shoot. When the actors take the romance off screen, the filmmaker, played by Swanberg himself, becomes jealous. The ambiguity between film and reality, love and desire is explored in this meta-film with the audience privy to all.

“Joe Swanberg may not be a Jean Renoir just yet, but he is a young person brimming with ideas.” —Brigitta Wagner, Senses of Cinema

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Silver Bullets

Jan 10, 2012

(Joe Swanberg, 2011, USA, Blu-ray, 70 min)

Director Joe Swanberg stars as a struggling filmmaker in Silver Bullets, a meta-film that took him nearly two and a half years to create. Loosely based around the creation of a werewolf flick, Swanberg’s film-without-a-script comes out fully formed. Silver Bullets addresses previous criticism of Swanberg’s work and his personal struggle as an artist. The improvised dialogue, the bold score by Orange Mighty Trio and the mixture of HD and super-8 footage cause Silver Bullets to erupt beyond Swanberg’s reputation as a realist filmmaker and into a new realm of innovation.

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The Zone

Jan 11, 2012

(Joe Swanberg, 2011, USA, Blu-ray, 70 min)

Joe Swanberg’s third meta-film, The Zone, is a generously revised remake of Pasolini's Teorema, an Italian film from 1968. Following its original plot structure (a sexy stranger comes to town and seduces every member of a household), Swanberg complicates the premise by absorbing the tropes of a remake into the film-within-his-film.

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