Dear Future Film Festival 2023 - PLUS Q&A with directors
Finding Vivian Maier, Plus short film 'Travels from Home'
See the world through the eyes of a mysterious nanny, who chronicled the lives of the families she worked with through 100,000 secret photos, discovered many years after they were taken.
Director: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel / Dave Thomas & Nell Garfath-Cox
Cast includes: NA
hosted by Dear Future Film Festival, PLUS Q&A with directors Dave and Nell
83mins / 20mins approx / 2013 / USA
Presented by Dear Future, a live cinema organisation. Dear Future explores ways of thinking into the future by bringing together film, conversation and creativity.
Finding Vivian Maier is the critically acclaimed documentary about a mysterious nanny, who over the course of five decades, secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in storage lockers. Vivian would further indulge in her passionate devotion to documenting the world around her through homemade films, recordings and collections, assembling one of the most fascinating windows into American life in the second half of the twentieth century.
Maier was an inveterate wanderer and self-taught photographer with an artful and comic eye and an uncanny ability to get close to people from all walks of life. Maier’s strange and riveting life and art are revealed through never before seen photographs, films, and interviews with dozens who thought they knew her. Would Maier have even wanted to be discovered in this way? Answering that question depends on how you interpret different bits of evidence in this film. However, seeing the world through Vivian Maier’s eyes is a real wonder.
About short film 'Travels from Home'
Roff Smith is an Australian travel photographer living in Hastings, who was grounded at the beginning of lockdown. Unable to travel and therefore work, Roff instead embarked on a local photography project, by bicycle and discovered a new love of the English landscape in his Hopper-esque photography.
Filmed in locations less than 10 miles from Hastings - Travels from Home looks at an artist reinventing himself during lockdown.
Stick around after the films for a lively Q&A with directors Dave Thomas & Nell Garfath-Cox.
This film is F-Rated. The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women.
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