Ulreich Seidl Retrospective and California Company Town now underway at Anthology

Now underway at Anthology Film Archives, a retrospective of Austria’s top subversive “documentary” filmmaker Ulreich Seidl.  Featuring several of Seidl’s films, including MODELS and ANIMAL LOVE, in addition to his latest narrative masterpiece IMPORT/EXPORT.

Also playing now at Anthology is Lee Ann Schmitt’s CALIFORNIA COMPANY TOWN, which is not to be missed.  In the fashion of James Benning, Schmitt films 16mm landscapes of neglected and abandoned industry towns in California while narrating their stories.

For more info go to: www.anthologyfilmarhcives.org

“[Seidl] is a documentarian in the tradition of Luis Buñuel and Werner Herzog.  He’s an artist whose realistic, unsparing films about ‘ordinary’ people leading terrible lives have a whiff of the surreal.” –Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The experience of living in a particular place at a particular time, the phenomena of time and space, and the space between ideology and the reality of the spaces we inhabit are central to Schmitt’s essay. - (RM) Rotterdam Film Festival